On Feb 19, the Underground Brewers gathered around the long tables in the Veracious Brewing tap room to perform a most solemn duty: to select the 3 beers which would move on to the next round of the CT Inter-Club Championship Competition. Since we hold the cup for the current year, the pressure was on to select 3 beers with excellent chances of winning.
There were 12 to choose from: 4 singles, 2 dubbels, 3 tripels, and 3 quads. (At least 2 other singles were known to exist but failed to arrive on the evening in question. We’ll never know if one of those could have bested the 12 on the table.)
The judges took their duties seriously. So seriously, in fact, that they were shaving half-points this way and that when assigning scores to the entries. There was some agreement, some disagreement, and some heated discussion.
In the end, 3 entries were duly chosen. The styles and the brewers’ identities should remain somewhat under wraps until the competition finals in late March. But you might be able to guess at some of them by perusing the tasting notes below.
With that task out of the way, the group went on to judge ANOTHER 8 or 10 homebrews. (And a few commercial beers. And some excellent Veracious beer left for us by Mark and Tess.) I won’t even try to decipher the scribe’s handwriting on these beers. You are free to check out the notes yourself.
Overall, a wonderful evening. As always, the club owes and enormous debt of gratitude to Mark and Tess, Maltose Express, and Veracious Brewing, for hosting and supporting us the way they do.