Results - America's Finest City Homebrew Competition Table 1: Standard American Beer (10 entries) 1st Doug Brown Watered Down Starter Beer For Some Real Lagers American Light Lager QUAFF 2nd Rob Jones The Wheat You Don't Eat American Wheat Beer QUAFF 3rd Oleg Shpyrko Quick And Hazy Cream Ale Cream Ale QUAFF Table 2: International Lager (9 entries) 1st Brian Trout Taste My Schwarzbier (An Old Bottle I Found International The Garage) Dark Lager SD Craft Cider, QUAFF, Mash Heads, Society of 2nd Derek Springer Build Bridges, Not Walls International Pale Lager Society of Barley Engineers 3rd Doug Brown Let The Eagle Soar Lager International Pale Lager QUAFF Table 3: Czech Lager (7 entries) 1st Bill Kutlesa Awesome Amber Czech Amber Lager Thousand Oaks 2nd Laurel Canan Laurelstein Morning After Pils Czech Premium Pale Lager 3rd Mark Keck Cerne Pivo Czech Dark Lager Boston Wort Processors Table 4: Pale Malty European Lager (8 entries) 1st Brady Jones Wolfsbane Helles Bock 2nd Metts Potter Durstkur Munich Helles Battleground Brewers Guild 3rd Michael Gaggioli Wunderkind Festbier Society of Barley Engineers HM Tom Kelly Munich Helles Munich Helles QUAFF Table 5: Pale Bitter European Beer (7 entries) 1st Brady Jones Amortentia Kolsch 2nd Metts Potter Iceberg! Kolsch Battleground Brewers Guild 3rd Greg Young Ken's Pils German Pils Table 6: Amber Malty European Lager (10 entries) 1st Scott Rauvola Bog Body Rauchbier QUAFF 2nd Doug Brown Goats In A Tree Dunkels Bock QUAFF 3rd Nick Corona #Cheers4Sarah Marzen Marzen QUAFF Table 7: Amber Bitter European Beer (7 entries)
1st Mark Keck Vienna V2017.10.22 Vienna Lager Boston Wort Processors 2nd Evan Comeaux GB&D Vienna Lager Bluff City Brewers & Connoisseurs 3rd Eli Palma Alt Of The Girth Altbier Quaff HM Phil Cammarano Anton Vienna Lager Browns Point Homebrew Club Table 8: Dark European Lager (7 entries) 1st Brian Trout Taste My Schwarzbier (An Old Bottle I Found Schwarzbier In The Garage) SD Craft Cider, QUAFF, Mash Heads, Society of 2nd Nick Corona #cheers4sarah - Schwarzbier Schwarzbier QUAFF 3rd Mike Neith Lola Montez Munich Dunkel Mash Heads Table 9: Strong European Beer (13 entries) 1st Matt Geraci DP Sexual Chocolate Baltic Porter Mash Heads 2nd Robbie Proctor Cough Please Baltic Porter DOZE 3rd Todd Slater Doppel Play Doppelbock thousand oaked homebrewers HM Dan Baker Lvivsky Porter Baltic Porter QUAFF Table 10: German Wheat Beer (10 entries) 1st Nick Corona #cheers4sarah - Weissbier Weissbier QUAFF 2nd Tim Wang Wheaty's Big Dark One Dunkels Weissbier 3rd Doug Brown Ask Me About My Weizenbock Weizenbock QUAFF HM Doug Brown Aegir's Omen Dunkels Weissbier QUAFF Table 11: British Bitter (9 entries) 1st Jim Mccaskey MacDaddy Dog Ale Strong Bitter QUAFF 3rd Matthew Bixby Norbury Gates Strong Bitter Mad Zymurgists Table 12: Pale Commonwealth Beer (1 entries) 2nd Doug Brown Spry Chicken Golden Ale English Golden Ale QUAFF Table 13: Brown British Beer (21 entries) 1st Kevin Masaryk Harry Porter English Porter QUAFF 2nd Jason Justeson Dark Mild Dark Mild Brewing Borrachos 3rd Michael Gaggioli Prancing Pony English Brown Ale Society of Barley Engineers
Table 14: Scottish Ale (8 entries) 1st James Murray Handsome Spaniel Scottish Heavy 2nd Scott Rauvola The Haverer Scottish Export QUAFF 3rd Doug Brown Fine Wrinkle In Time (FWiT) Scottish Light QUAFF Table 15: Irish Beer (7 entries) 1st Jared Rowley Dublin Dry Irish Stout Irish Stout QUAFF 2nd Nick Corona #cheers4sarah - Irish Red Irish Red Ale QUAFF 3rd Jared Rowley Smaug's Irish Red Ale Irish Red Ale QUAFF Table 16: Dark British Beer (15 entries) 1st Scott Voak Tropical Storm Tropical Stout QUAFF 2nd Laurel Canan Laurelstein Dark Ages Stout Sweet Stout 3rd Jim Mccaskey Milk The Dog Snout Sweet Stout QUAFF HM Oleg Shpyrko Sweet Stout Sweet Stout QUAFF Table 17: Strong British Ale (17 entries) 1st Todd Slater Oldest One Old Ale thousand oaked homebrewers 2nd Scott Rauvola Havering Hag Wee Heavy QUAFF 3rd Fred Brophy David Bowie Wee Heavy Mash Heads Table 18: Pale American Ale (22 entries) 1st Metts Potter Evil Twin Blonde Ale Battleground Brewers Guild 2nd Devin Knez Spontaneous Loner American Pale Ale Quaff 3rd Bjorn Erik Enki Gjesdal Bjorn The Pale American Pale Ale Table 19: Amber and Brown American Beer (14 entries) 1st Michael Gaggioli Ava's Constitutional American Brown Ale Society of Barley Engineers 2nd Philip Diehl Shark Bite Red Clone (1.9) American Amber Ale The Brewing Network 3rd Todd Slater Really Common California Common thousand oaked homebrewers Table 20: American Porter and Stout (23 entries) 1st Scott Rauvola Champions Of Breakfast RIS Imperial Stout QUAFF 2nd Jared Rowley Star Destroyer Imperial Stout Imperial Stout QUAFF
3rd Nathan Levengood Brown Frown American Porter Society of Akron Area Zymurgists (SAAZ) HM Robert Knipper Rob's Russian Imperial Stout Society of Barley Engineers Table 21: IPA (37 entries) 1st Bjorn Erik Enki Gjesdal The Bjorn Identity: Citra American IPA 2nd Solomon Cantwell NE IPA Specialty IPA QUAFF 3rd Esdras Valdez Black Forest Black IPA Mexicali Home Brewers HM Nick Corona #cheers4sarah - IPA American IPA QUAFF Table 22: Strong American Ale (16 entries) 1st Nick Corona #cheers4sarah - Double IPA Double IPA QUAFF 2nd Matthew Barone Hysteria Double IPA Philadelphia Homebrew Club 3rd Jim Mccaskey Bad Bitch American Strong Ale QUAFF Table 23: European Sour Ale (19 entries) 1st Michael Fry Ned Flanders Flanders Red Ale Buffalo Brew Club 2nd Todd Barrett Dirty Raspberries Fruit Lambic Society of Barley Engineers 3rd Doug Brown Life Is A Guava - Winter 2018 Fruit Lambic QUAFF HM Jason Justeson Oud Borracho Batch 2 Oud Bruin Brewing Borrachos Table 24: Belgian Ale (8 entries) 1st Nick Corona #cheers4sarah Biere De Garde Biere de Garde QUAFF 2nd Jonathan Patterson Shorty's Belgian Pale Ale Belgian Pale Ale 3rd Doug Brown Oui Frere Biere de Garde QUAFF HM Eric Robinson BdFG Biere de Garde QUAFF Table 25: Strong Belgian Ale (24 entries) 1st Laurel Canan Laurelstein Dumbe Blonde Belgian Blond Ale 2nd Jeffrey Pierce Belgian Golden Strong Belgian Golden Strong Ale 3rd Doug Brown Mordecai's Flight Belgian Blond Ale QUAFF Table 26: Trappist Ale (34 entries) 1st Jason Justeson El Doble Belgian Dubbel Brewing Borrachos 2nd Paul Duddles Anna Trappist Single Mash Heads 3rd Jeffrey Pierce Tripel Belgian Tripel
Table 27: Historical Beer (7 entries) 1st Scott Rauvola Zungen Brecher Historical Beer QUAFF 2nd Alvin Dixon GRODZISKI Piwo Grodziskie Quaff 3rd Cary Chitwood Chivo Guey Gose inland empire brewers Table 28: American Wild Ale (16 entries) 1st James Perez Conical Batch #1 Mixed Fermentation Sour Beer 2nd Bjorn Erik Enki Gjesdal Bjorn To Be Wild Mixed Fermentation Sour Beer 3rd John Warner Mix Fermented Saison Mixed Fermentation Sour Beer San Francisco Homebrewer's Guild HM John Warner Saison Brett Brett Beer San Francisco Homebrewer's Guild Table 29: Fruit Beer (11 entries) 1st Eli Palma Don Prickles Fruit Beer Quaff 2nd Wittaker Mathot Blau'liner Fruit and Spice Beer 3rd Brandon Holt Gin-N-Juice Fruit and Spice Beer QUAFF Table 30: Spiced Beer (39 entries) 1st Scott Rauvola Master Luke Christmas Ale Winter Seasonal Beer QUAFF 2nd Jared Rowley Jack Skellington's Christmas Stout Winter Seasonal Beer QUAFF 3rd Jason Nayior Golden Spike - 'Zonnewende Kruiden' EditionSpice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer Maltose Falcons HM Oleg Shpyrko Festivus "Airing Of Grievances" Winter Seasonal Beer QUAFF Table 31: Alternative Fermentables Beer (1 entries) N/A Table 32: Smoked Beer (5 entries) 2nd Fred Brophy Bug Engine Specialty Smoked Beer Mash Heads 3rd Brett Higham Sponge Bob's Gose Specialty Smoked Beer Diablo Order of Zymiracle Enthusiasts (DOZE) HM Brett Higham Traditional Smoked English Porter Classic Style Smoked Beer Diablo Order of Zymiracle Enthusiasts (DOZE) Table 33: Wood Beer (21 entries) 1st Kingsley Toby Second Sleep Specialty Wood-Aged Beer Pacific Gravity 2nd Brian Trout Leather Bound Books & Rich Mahogany (W/ Extra Specialty Books) Wood-Aged - 2016 Beer SD Craft Cider, QUAFF, Mash Heads, Society of 3rd Tom Kelly Specialty Wood Aged Belgian Dark Strong Specialty Wood-Aged Beer QUAFF
Table 34: Specialty Beer (8 entries) 1st Scott Rauvola Old Alienator Experimental Beer QUAFF 2nd Scott Rauvola Cistercian Homebrew Clone Beer QUAFF 3rd Doug Brown Black Eagle Experimental Beer QUAFF Table 35: Standard Cider and Perry (9 entries) 1st Sean Thompson English Weather New World Cider 2nd Sean Thompson Ur Moms Little House On The Perry Traditional Perry 3rd Scott Voak Cider New World Cider QUAFF Table 36: Specialty Cider and Perry (20 entries) 1st Sean Thompson Smooth Criminal Blend New England Cider 2nd Karl Kahleck Warning, Do Drink! Cider with Other Fruit Foam On The Brain 3rd Phyllis Xu Sagardoa Specialty Cider/Perry Engineers and an extra screw Table 37: Traditional Mead (8 entries) 1st Dave Mccauley Buckwheat Honey Mead Semi-Sweet Mead Quaff 2nd Larry Stein Light My Mead Dry Mead Quaff 3rd Brian Trout Garage Mead (Probably Pretty Old) Semi-Sweet Mead SD Craft Cider, QUAFF, Mash Heads, Society of Table 38: Fruit Mead (14 entries) 1st Jared Ayo Pomegranate Melomel QUAFF 2nd Bob Mac Kay Apple Of My Eye Cyser QUAFF 3rd Mike Habrat Beautiful Agony Pyment Quaff Table 39: Spiced Mead (5 entries) 1st Larry Stein Spiced Mead Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Mead Quaff 2nd Michael Fry Pineapple Chipolte Fruit and Spice Mead Buffalo Brew Club 3rd Michael Fry Heart Of Darkness Fruit and Spice Mead Buffalo Brew Club Table 40: Specialty Mead (5 entries) 1st Karl Kahleck San Diego Alcoholics Anonymous (619) 265-8762 Experimental Mead Foam On The Brain 2nd Justin Fleming Viking Napalm Historical Mead QUAFF 3rd Jared Ayo Electric Lemonade Experimental Mead QUAFF