For all you competition organizers, would you allow this entry in to your competition. I did, but in hindsight I don’t think I should have. if you got one that came wrapped in ratty t-shirt and and each bottle was inserted in to its own dirty, stained, hole ridden sock, would you let it on to judging?
No. Why did you do that?
That’s pretty messed up right there. I’d be tempted to mail the guy’s laundry back to him.
At least is was just t-shirts and socks. Imagine if he’d used old ratty undershorts.
This belongs on the homepage and/or the next issue of Zymurgy.
Unless you have a rule about how the beer has to be packaged and shipped…you have to allow it. 
+1 I’m with Mike on this one. Thought the yuck factor is pretty high, I think it should be entered. Now, do you let the judges know about this? I’m thinking not. Asking the judges to be impartial & ignore something like that is stretching it. ;D
Make sure you roll up his score sheets and re-insert them in the sock when you mail them out.
I’d love to read a statement in the rules for a competition that said something like, “Packaging material cannot consist of unlaundered clothing. If you’re going to use clothing as packing material please wash it first. Any packages smelling of people’s feet will be rejected.”
Yeah, I realize that…but I still wouldn’t!
It’s worth the extra couple of bucks spent on postage in return just to show your loathing. New Rule… Submissions wrapped in dirty laundry will only be considered as category #17 Sour Ale, even if entered in any other category.
That is the best suggestion yet. It was allowed in, in the end. Trust me it never made it to BOS.
How hard core do you other folks enforce your bottle entry rules, no 22 oz, not flip tops, etc? We had regulations against them, similar to NHC, but still received entries like that.
Now THAT’S funny ;D
Hilarious!
A single catch-all line:
“We reserve the right to reject any entry for any reason. Entry fees will be refunded, the entry will not be returned.”
We generally accept all entries, but rarely get anything in flip tops or 22 oz bottles. The rules are looser for meads and ciders than they are for beer, those come in all kinds of packages.
Maybe the guy just doesn’t understand the term “going green” and figured laundering would mess it up.
That looks like Athlete’s Foot Ale or Toe Jam Lager ;D
Sock it to me stout
Foot funk Flanders Red
Ok Toe Ber Fest
Dirty laundry lambic
Tenactin Red Ale
Solefull 70/-
Beet Feet Bitter
If the organizer gets a box full of dirty laundry in the mail, are they obliged to go sifting through it? Absolutely not. There may have been beer in there, but he never saw it
Denny…I have to admit it…that wrapping a homebrew in a dirty sock is downright funny as hell.
Who would do something like that. :D :-\
Nice, I love it.