The AHA and Homebrew Competitions

[punatic]

@mdixon

Sorry you have soured on comps in your area, perhaps you should move  ;D

I did six years ago.  (not due to homebrew competitions though). 

@joeysmokedporter

I am getting the impression from this thread that the poll question was an indirect way of probing why people enter competitions (and maybe would have been better posed that way).

The discussion got started on the Competition Ethics thread.  We kind of hijacked stlaleman’s question about how to enter a melomel in a competition.

Then there was this exchange and it got me thinking that it would be better to take it to a new thread and pose it as a poll question.

@denny

@punatic

@johnf

If you are defensive about your experience with competitions, why not just avoid the threads discussing them?

Perhaps there are members of the Brewers’ Association who feel that the association spends too much time and resources promoting competition instead of just promoting brewing?

I didn’t see that opinion voiced.

I was just wondering about how the homebrew club paradigm has come to look so much like a bowling league.  From the results so far, 2/3 of the respondants like it that way.

I am enjoying the discussion very much.

And Denny, you are a stand up guy!