Home Brew Comp WTF!

[Brewing_In_MKE]

I spent part of this evening sorting through entries for the Midwinter Home Brewing Competition. This is the fastest way to get your beer disqualified... Slip your bottle in to a dirty, stained, hole-ridden sock and then wrap it in a crappy T-shirt. Come on guys... really WTF? I guess I should be thankful that it wasn't a skid marked ratty old pair of underwear...

Is bubble wrap that expensive?


This is my asshat of the week!

[spiderwrangler]

On the plus side, it made it to you unbroken!

[Brewing_In_MKE]

On the plus side, it made it to you unbroken!

Good point. I am glad someone found some good in this. I let it in to the comp, but man I feel sorry for the judges that have to taste that beer.

[spiderwrangler]

Along the same lines as leaving ratty falling apart labels on reused bottles... if you can't care enough to make it look decent, I doubt you care enough to sanitize, etc properly...

[TheDarkSide]

At least it wasn't their underwear.

[Dirk McLargeHuge]

And the sock was even vented to allow the beer to survive pressure changes!

[Brewing_In_MKE]

And the sock was even vented to allow the beer to survive pressure changes!

I'll give the guy credit, his stuff came intact. I had one box last night, that had lots of bubble wrap, garbage bags, etc, and leaked all over the place because one of the crowns was loose.

[crupp]

It's fun sorting beers for a competition, isn't it? I tell you what...opening and sorting hundreds of beers sure changed my opinion about a lot of competition rules.