I'm really pleased to hear this. Uncle Sam is a frequent guest at the Fusel Shack, and I've got quite a few bottles sitting around. I was going out to buy some other beer just for bottles. ;D
Medsen
The Mazer Cup International 2010 - Call for entries!
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I'm really pleased to hear this. Uncle Sam is a frequent guest at the Fusel Shack, and I've got quite a few bottles sitting around. I was going out to buy some other beer just for bottles. ;D
Medsen
Oh crap I just saw this now, I still have time to bottle and enter yeah?
Edit: just saw the entry date, when can we start sending them in though?
Also, what do we look at to find out how to categorize our drinks? I have this one I made with blueberry juice, blueberry honey, vanilla and star anise and I'm thinking that makes it a mead, but non-traditional, so does that make it a pyment? Confused
Edit: just saw the entry date, when can we start sending them in though?
Also, what do we look at to find out how to categorize our drinks? I have this one I made with blueberry juice, blueberry honey, vanilla and star anise and I'm thinking that makes it a mead, but non-traditional, so does that make it a pyment? Confused
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You can begin sending your entries any time. I plan to wait a week or so since it's so cold here right now and I don't want to risk my entries getting frozen inside a truck. Style guidelines can be found on the Mazer Cup International website. FWIW - Pyment is mead made from grapes.
And just to emphasize one aspect of the categories, if you have something that doesn't fit into any of the other categories (like the mixed melomel-metheglin you're describing here), the category to enter it under is 26C, the Open Category.
The Mazer Cup website is a good resource for this stuff. Says to use 375ml I believe, and recommends that you send a min of 2 but preferably 3 to ensure enough to make it through all the rounds:
Beer Bottles: Two or three 12 oz brown or green crown capped beer bottles. Crown caps must be plain or blacked out with permanent marker. Raised lettering on Beer or Wine bottles is permitted (e.g. Sam Adams) and is not a reason for disqualification. Wine Bottles: Two or three 375 ml clear or green wine-style bottles with cork closures. Corks may not bear any designs and may not be sealed with wax, foil or heat shrink capsules. Failure to comply with bottle standards will result in disqualification. You may enter just two bottles if you wish, however, you do so knowing full well that if your mead progresses past the first medal round there may not be enough mead left for the BoS round. You also know that if one of the two bottles is broken during shipping, or transfer to the judging site, there is no guarantee that there will be enough mead left to progress to subsequent medal rounds. Three bottles will ensure enough mead for medal and BoS rounds if your mead progresses that far. Swing-type caps are not permitted. An entry that excessively gushes from more than one bottle will be disqualified.
Beer Bottles: Two or three 12 oz brown or green crown capped beer bottles. Crown caps must be plain or blacked out with permanent marker. Raised lettering on Beer or Wine bottles is permitted (e.g. Sam Adams) and is not a reason for disqualification. Wine Bottles: Two or three 375 ml clear or green wine-style bottles with cork closures. Corks may not bear any designs and may not be sealed with wax, foil or heat shrink capsules. Failure to comply with bottle standards will result in disqualification. You may enter just two bottles if you wish, however, you do so knowing full well that if your mead progresses past the first medal round there may not be enough mead left for the BoS round. You also know that if one of the two bottles is broken during shipping, or transfer to the judging site, there is no guarantee that there will be enough mead left to progress to subsequent medal rounds. Three bottles will ensure enough mead for medal and BoS rounds if your mead progresses that far. Swing-type caps are not permitted. An entry that excessively gushes from more than one bottle will be disqualified.
I want to enter some meads in the commercial competition, but I only have 2 bottles of many of them. Is this going to be a problem?
;DBrad, I don't want to speak for the commercial registration team, so let me recommend that you send an email to the "commercial registrar" (link is on the left side of the Mazer Cup website), and ask your question directly. That's the best way to get a definitive, official answer.
Got the entry labels rubberbanded to the bottles, wrapped in bubble wrap, all that in a plastic bag, and ready to head to the UPS store tomorrow. You can hear a faint sloshing sound when the package is moved around so I might end up having to repack and head to another store (guess I'll find out tomorrow
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Bottled tonight, sending them out (hopefully) tomorrow. I have a question though. On the application sheet there were a few colorado addresses and one to Wayne. Where do we send our bottles to?
Got the entry labels rubberbanded to the bottles, wrapped in bubble wrap, all that in a plastic bag, and ready to head to the UPS store tomorrow. You can hear a faint sloshing sound when the package is moved around so I might end up having to repack and head to another store (guess I'll find out tomorrow
Opps... I forgot to put the bottles in a bag. Hopefully it's a safe trip.
I've never been a twit before (someone who twitters, right? ;D ), but if there is going to be a steady stream of info coming during the competition for those of us not fortunate enough to attend, I'm really gonna like it. Please keep the great info coming!
