As a past NHC 1st Round Judge Coordinator, I welcome the decision to have two bottles in the 1st Round.
I understand the challenges of handling 1500 bottles, but the objective of any homebrew competition is to give entrants good quality feedback on their creations and recognize their efforts with the accolades they deserve. I’m confident having two bottles in 1st Round will increase the quality of the results, by reducing errors and advancing the most deserving entries to the 2nd Round.
On “My Entry and Entries” it has me listed as shipping entries. Is this something that’s locked in? Do I have the option to drop off my entries?
Juggling kegs to get the proper carbonation levels is turning into a challenge and taking longer than I had planned. Hoping that dropping off will be an option (and a good excuse to go into the city.)
Hi,
If you log in to your registration information, the Shipping/Drop-Off is a drop-down, so you can change it to Drop-Off.
Good luck in the competition!
Cheers,
Janis
general thought: 50 characters is not a lot of space to accurately describe what I’ve done with some of my creations. This limit is making me reconsider which I enter.
Hi,
I realize the 50 character limit can pose some problems for the more adventuresome/creative homebrewers entering the competition. My intent was to keep the “my Aunt Bessie loves this beer and thinks I should go pro…” comments out of the description that gets printed on the pull sheets for the judges and also on Avery 5160 labels in the Final Round.
Another thing every homebrewer whose entry requires special ingredients should think about is whether the ingredient is discernable in the finished product. If you add 20 spices to a beer, not all 20 will be distinguishable in the final beer. If all 20 are listed and the judges can only identify 3, the beer may not be scored as high; however, it’s a sure thing that not all 20 spices will fit on an Avery 5160 address label.
I’m sure we’ll find some interesting abbreviations in the special ingredients this year, and we may even find that 50 characters is too restrictive, but we had to start somewhere. Thanks for the feedback!
Cheers,
Janis
I also wanted to tweak a description. Could have sworn that last year I could edit my entries right up to the day they were due. Just went to make a change and no longer see the edit feature. Nowhere did I read a final date for editing entries. Did I miss it somewhere? What’s up?
The date was yesterday, March 15th.
See Part II.
Oops! Missed that. Thanks.
Edited my etries on Thurday night, printed the labels on Friday. Was on time for once!
I would have also likely missed the deadline but Janet was nice enough to answer that question on the first reply of the thread so I made sure to put in a calendar reminder.
Could have used the weekend to finalize my entries and I’m sure those that only got registered this week could have too. Did have to get inventive in using only 50 characters, but so be it. Everyone else is in the same thin-description boat.
cheers–
–Michael
Me, too, but fortunately I edited mine before that deadline.
I was only able to get three entries in when I had planned on six, so I edited my three to be the ones with the best chance of advancing.
Bottling this weekend.
Shoot. I was planning on editing my entries this weekend. I think off all of my entries I have set only one is a beer I actually have.
I must be blind…
I registered a beer and a mead, all paid up, no edits required… but I just want to print the labels so I can ship my entries. Every link from the rules/regs goes to http://www.brewingcompetition.com/
No link to login on that page, and the few generic guesses I tried didn’t work, ie. http://www.brewingcompetition.com/login
Anybody have a better link?
Goto http://www.brewingcompetition.com/regionX where X is your region number. For seattle it is http://www.brewingcompetition.com/region1
I told you I was blind. 8)
Thanks.
My entries are on their way. Only bottle labels were required, right? The rules and info on the region 11 site said to include your entry form and payment in box along with your entries along with bottle labels attached to your bottles (I know, rubber bands only…no tape 
). I didn’t see an entry form and the entries were prepaid as required by the AHA, so I assumed this was just the standard template for this competition software.
Good luck to all that are entering!
Are the results posted yet? 
I just sent bottles with rubber banded labels as well. I don’t remember ever sending anything else in the package before. Mine are “out for delivery” as I write this.
I did the same. Entries should arrive today… gulp…
There used to be a form you sent which showed proof of payment, and before that, you probably could pay with check. Probably just old instructions.
Hmmmm…
So i can’t edit my entry description now for 16E? I didn’t write anything initially because I was trying to rush to enter and figured I could add that info later. Oh well. The feedback will have to be my prize.