LongShot - American Homebrew Contest

Samuel Adams® American Homebrew Contest™ Results

The results are in! Congratulations to Chad Warner of Massachusetts, Michael Robinson of New Hampshire, Alex Drobshoff of California and Aaron Schenk of North Carolina for being selected as finalists in the 2008 Samuel Adams® American Homebrew Contest™. All four will join us at the Great American Beer Festival in Denver where we’ll announce which beer will join Mike McDole’s Double IPA in the 2009 LongShot® variety pack.

If you find yourself at the GABF, please be sure to stop by the LongShot booth to meet the finalists and vote on the 3^rd brew to be included in the LongShot variety pack from our Samuel Adams employee homebrew contest.

This year’s LongShot competition yielded 1,367 entries from just under 1,000 homebrewers! This is proof positive that homebrewing is alive and well!

Score sheets will be mailed to each entrant within the next few weeks. Once again, thank you for participating and congratulations to all of you on a job well done!

Boston Region (2 finalists)

Best in Show #1: English Brown Ale - Mild
Brewer: Chad Warner

Best in Show #2: Espresso Oatmeal Stout
Brewer: Michael Robinson

Results	Category	Style	Name
	Category 1 – Light Lagers	Premium American Lager	Tom Zahasky
	Category 2 – Pilsner	German Pilsner	Michael Robinson
	Category 3 – Euro Amber	Marzen	Michael Robinson
	Category 4 – Dark Lager	Dark American Lager	Otto Neumann
	Category 5 – Bock	Maibock	Michael Robinson
	Category 6 – Light Hybrid	Cream Ale	David Conover
	Category 7 – Amber Hybrid	California Common Beer	Michael Reda
	Category 8 – Bitter/EPA	Extra Special/Strong Bitter	John Goodfellow
	Category 9 – Scottish and Irish Ale	Irish Red Ale	David Conover
	Category 10 – American Ale	American Pale Ale	Chris Dodge
1st	Category 11 – English Brown Ale	Mild Ale	Chad Warner
	Category 12 – Porter	Baltic Porter	Michael Robinson
3rd	Category 13 – Stout	Russian Imperial Stout	John MacLean
	Category 14 – IPA	English IPA	Dennis Baker
	Category 15 – German Weizen &Rye	Weizen/Weissbeir	Michael Reda
	Category 16 – Belgian and French Ale	Belgian Pale Ale	John McKenney
	Category 17 – Sour Ale	Fruit Lambic	Brian Strumke
	Category 18 – Belgian Strong Ale	Belgian Tripel	Curtis Wood
	Category 19 – Strong Ale	Old Ale	David Sabre
	Category 20 – Fruit Beer	Fruit Beer	Gene Young
1st	Category 21 – Spice/Herb/Vegetable	Spice/Herb/Vegetable	Michael Robinson
	Category 22 – Smoke and Wood Aged	Other Smoked Beer	Lyle Brown
	Category 23 – Specialty	Specialty	Mark Marianelli

Chicago Region

Best in Show: German Pilsner
Brewer: Aaron Schenk

Results	Category	Style	Name
	Category 1 – Light Lagers	Standard American Lager	Adam Staff
1st	Category 2 – Pilsner	German Pilsner	Aaron Schenk
	Category 3 – Euro Amber	European Amber Lager	Jeff Bushner
	Category 4 – Dark Lager	Munich Dunkel	Dominic DiMondo
	Category 5 – Bock	Doppelbock	Mike Lemke
2nd	Category 6 – Light Hybrid	Cream Ale	Curt and Kathy Stock
	Category 7 – Amber Hybrid	Northern German Altbier	Dennis Marty
	Category 8 – Bitter/EPA	Extra Special/Strong Bitter	Joe Formanek
	Category 9 – Scottish and Irish Ale	Scottish Export 80	Bruce Hartjes
	Category 10 – American Ale	American Pale Al	Heath Boebel
	Category 11 – English Brown Ale	North English Brown Ale	Doug Wich
	Category 12 – Porter	Brown Porter	Garth Hall
	Category 13 – Stout	Foreign Extra Stout	Jason Obert
	Category 14 – IPA	English IPA	Keith Newnham
	Category 15 – German Weizen & Rye	Weizen/Weissbier	Ronald Mahan
	Category 16 – Belgian and French Ale	Belgian Pale Ale	Dustin Peters
	Category 17 – Sour Ale	Berliner Weisse	Ben Harris
	Category 18 – Belgian Strong Ale	Belgian Strong Golden Ale	Doug Wich
	Category 19 – Strong Ale	Old Ale	Dan Humphrey
	Category 20 – Fruit Beer	Fruit Beer	Sean Besser Hank
	Category 21 – Spice/Herb/Vegetable	Spice/Herb/Vegetable	Mike Frost
3rd	Category 22 – Smoke and Wood Aged	Classic Rauchbier	Aaron Schenk
	Category 23 – Specialty	Specialty	Brian Hoesing

San Francisco Region

Best in Show #1: Traditional Bock
Brewer: Alex Drobshoff

Results	Category	Style	Name
	1- Light Lager	Munich Helles	Jim Langlois
	2- Pilsner	Bohemian Pilsner	Jonathan Plise
	3- European Amber Lager	Vienna Lager	Sean Railing
	4- Dark Lager	Munich Dunkel	Jonathan Plise
1st	5- Bock	Traditional Bock	Alex Drobshoff
	6- Light Hybrid	Koelsch	Jonathan Plise
	7- Amber Hybrid	Duesseldorf Altbier	David Northup
	8- English Pale	Extra Special/Strong Bitter (English Pale Ale)	Howard Allegan
	9- Scottish/ Irish Red Ale	Scottish Heavy 70/-	Ray Wilderman
	10- American Ale	American Amber Ale	James McChesney
	11- English Brown Ale	Northern English Brown Ale	Michael Kretch
	12- Porter	Robust Porter	Paul Fowler
	13- Stout	Sweet Stout	Brad Warbiany
3rd	14- India Pale Ale	American IPA	John Scheri
2nd	15- German Wheat/ Rye	Weizenbock	Jonathan Plise
	16- Belgian/ French Ale	Witbier	David Northup
	17- Sour Ale	-	-
	18- Belgian Strong Ale	Belgian Strong Golden Ale	Andrew Zaharevitz
	19- Strong Ale	Old Ale	Jonathan Plise
	20- Fruit Beer	Fruit Beer	Paul Kemp
	21- Spice/herb/veg	Spice/ Herb/Vegetable	Steve Klinger, Jr.
	22- Smoke/ Wood-aged	Wood-Aged Beer	Jonathan Plise
	23- Specialty	Specialty Beer	Steve Anderson

Please note that this competition was registered with the BJCP as an AHA/BJCP Sanctioned Competition Program (SCP) event and was judged by brewmasters from The Boston Beer Company, beer judges from the Beer Judge Certification Program, and other qualified judges.