Bell's Brewery Home Brew Contest

[LouieMacGoo]

Our annual homebrew competition is now in its fourth year and will be held this year on Sept. 14 at the Eccentric Café.

As in previous years, there is no cost to enter and the only requirement is that you use our wort, which we provide for free.

The first place winner will get to brew their recipe at our original brewery to then go on tap at the Café.


Here is what you need to know:

Sign-up times for wort pickup will begin at 11 a.m. Wort will be distributed starting at 1 p.m. Homebrewers should bring a sanitized vessel with them to transport their wort home. Buckets, carboys (please be extra careful handling glass carboys) and cornelius kegs are the most common vessels. You can leave them in your vehicle until it’s time to pick up your wort, but again, please sanitize your vessel prior to your pick-up time to help us make sure everyone gets their wort.

Make sure to get there early, as supplies will be limited. Signing up early will help guarantee wort.

You can send someone else to pick up your wort. We aren’t concerned with who takes it, just who turns bottles in to be judged in October. We do ask that you don’t bring friends or relatives who don’t brew, just so you can have an extra 5+ gallons of wort. We are relying on the goodwill of homebrewers to help each other out and share the wealth. Please help us make sure all who want to compete are able.

You can add whatever you like to your recipe/submission. However, if your entry is chosen as the winner, we will have to be able to figure out a way to make your beer on a much larger scale. So please, take good, detailed notes of everything you do to the wort.

We won’t know exactly how much we will end up with until the wort is made, but last year we were able to give 5 gallons of wort to 206 homebrewers. We hope to be in that ballpark again this year, but things happen during wort transfers that can affect that number. We recommend arriving early to sign up and make sure you get your wort.

More detail are available at the Bell's Brewery Website

[DaYooper]

Now that is realy cool. If it wasnt a game day I would have to make the trip. Although SWMBO loves her beer, me thinks she loves her Wolverines just a tad bit more.

[RickBeer]

That is neat, although not worth the drive for the wort - and the reality that I wouldn't be able to brew anything they cared about.