Indiana Brewers Cup prep work from the Howard County Home Brew Club.
The full results of the Brewers Cup will be up in a couple of days at the Brewers Cup website.
Meanwhile, Congratulations to the winners. From 278 entries in the professional side the Best of Show was Liz Laughlin’s Simcoe IPA that just went on tap at the northside Indianapolis Rock Bottom. The Brewery of the Year went, for the third consecutive year, to Greenwood’s Oaken Barrel. Mark Havens is quoted as saying “Threepeat. Threepeat.”
On the homebrewers side, 753 entries culminated with a Best of Show cup to John Mills of Evansville for How Now Brown Cow – a, you guessed it, Northern English Brown. The Brewer of the year went to Bill Ballinger, a member of the Homebrew Club of the Year, MECA – a group of homebrewers from around the state.
Woodford Reserve gave 11 homebrew clubs each a used whiskey barrel to age a beer for a special award. These clubs made Irish, Scottish, Old, Ales; Oatmeal and Imperial Stouts; and all served them at the awards ceremony. The Woodford Reserve Cup went to the brewers of the Duneland Homebrew Club of northwest Indiana centered around Valparaiso who took a completely different tactic and brewed a Braggot – a beer/mead combination. They used 60 pounds of honey in a 65 gallon batch of beer and aged it for a full 4 months.
Judging Best of Show
Liz Laughlin of Rock Bottom. Mark Havens and John Treeter of Oaken Barrel,
John Mills. Bill Ballinger
Monica Pearson of MECA
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