And we have a Porter!
On a sunny January 30th, about 100 people converged on Seapine Brewing’s new location at 10am in the morning to - what else? - drink beer! Specifically they were there to literally pass judgement on 16 different Porter entries that we received for our most recent MDB competition.
There are definitely worse things though, than judging a Flying Bike members’ homebrew. We have some talented brewers in our midst, and Kevin Forhan remarked at this fact and that there were several good candidates that he’d be glad to have featured in our beer lineup. Most of these folks brought their “A” game recipes, and they were well executed and true to the style.
We also need to call out the Member Driven Beer team here, and their putting on a great event. From handling the planning, arrangements, logistics, ballot design, and tallying processes - they did a great job! This is the first FBCB team that is primarily driven from members outside of the Board of Directors, which allows us to scale our production and management of these events so much better. Kudos to you guys, this was a great event!!
After all the beer foam had settled, and the ballots were tallied, and re-tallied (no hanging chads, here), we arrived at a clear winner, which is at this moment (2/26/16) fermenting along in your brewery. Here are the top 5 vote getters along with their point totals:
- Eric Blume, Member #905 (69 points)
- Annie Johnson, #1579 (55 points)
- Todd Kennedy, #1168 (54 points)
- Cliff Caldwell, #639 (49 points)
- Chris Rinauto, #474 (32 points)
We have all the judging sheets posted up on our FBCB Drive, where you can find them here and here (5MB & 4MB files)
Thank you all for another successful event, and bringing another Member Driven Beer to fruition!
Keep in mind that we have our next competition coming up on April 9th and 10th (entries due by April 7th), where we will be judging for an American Red Ale to be scaled up and put on tap at your favorite Co-op Tasting room! And we’ll be holding it at Flying Bike!
Beers!
