July 24, 2007
One Step Closer To Commercial Brewing
As I mentioned a few times, I brewed a Raspberry Wheat beer shortly after the move to CA, in order to have a nice clean summer beer for the SoCal heat. I was desperately trying to get it done and bottled in time to submit to the Orange County Fair’s Homemade Beer competition, but due to a couple of forces, missed the deadline. I bottled as usual, and then two days before judging, got a call from the competition organizer, asking if I still wanted to submit (since I had already sent in the paperwork and entry fee).
Well, that was about the last I had heard of it. I later received a letter asking if I wanted to attend a private party for “Beer Exhibitors”, but assumed that this was sent out to all participants.
So I was a bit surprised when I was at the event, the winners of each category were called up front to talk about their beers, and my name was called for the “Fruit Beer” category… It was a bit awkward, actually, because most winners had brought samples of their beer for tasting purposes, and I obviously didn’t have any of that. Plus, not knowing that I had won, I really had no clue what to say… The below photo is me fumbling through my little speech.
But hey, chock another feather in the cap. If you want to see my [misspelled] name in print, check out this site and select “Entry” and “620 – Fruit Beer”. Hopefully they’ll spell my name right on the ribbon, because that will one day be displayed in my brewery… If I keep making beers like these, perhaps one day I’ll actually have a brewery 
In addition, while there my brother-in-law and I met some very nice fellow homebrewers, one of whom took runner-up in best-in-show for a pomegranate mead that I got to taste… That was some very good mead, and major credit to her for taking second place for the best-in-show category in a beer competition with a mead — doesn’t happen often.
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Congradulations Brad….
Man, I bet that beer goes good with some Velveeta Shells & Cheese with Broccoli.
Mmm… Raspberry with Mac & Cheese…
That sounds like a match made in
heaventhe backwoods of Indiana…