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The annual Blue Ridge Brew Off competition will be held in Asheville on Saturday. Here’s a description of the contest, aimed at the hardcore home-brew crowd. This event is not open to the public. The awards ceremony will be held Saturday at Skyland Distributing, and results will be posted on the Web on Monday.
The competition includes everything from meads, ciders and barley wines to beer.
Here’s more:
MALT’s Blue Ridge Brew Off has proven to be one of the most fun and largest competitions in the region. For the last three years we averaged over 400 entries per year. Last year the count was 490. We are honored to be a qualifying event for the prestigious North American Masters Championship of Amateur Brewing (MCAB). The BRBO is a qualifying event for the Mid-South and Carolina (CBoY) regional honors: brewer of the year, master brewer of the year, club of the year, and mead maker of the year. An award will be given in memory of, one of our esteemed members, Dr. George Fixfor the highest scoring entry from a homebrewer who has been brewing for one year or less. The Blue Ridge Brew Off is sanctioned by the BJCP. We will have both beer and mead/cider Best of Show judging. The Blue Ridge Brew Off will use the 2008 BJCP style guidelines, BJCP Style Guidelines 2008 . MALT reserves the right to combine style categories for judging and awards. All of the subcategories of each category will be judged only with other subcategories of the same category. For example Stouts may be judged in two or more flights but only Stouts will be judged in these flights. With 2 or more flights of the same category a mini BOS will be used to determine the best of the category for MCAB reporting.
