VicBrew 2018 Results

Cam Sun October 21, 2018
Competitions

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Mashers Take Club of Show at VicBrew 2018

For the first time ever, Merri Mashers have taken the Barney (Best Club of Show) at VicBrew. This is an amazing effort from all of those who contributed by entering their beers.

Chris Schwinghamer Takes Best Novice

Our very own Chris Schwinghamer has taken the Best Novice award for his American IPA, this beer also narrowly missed out on Champion Beer of Show, coming in second place for that.

Our winners!

Here's a full list of our winners, great work Mashers! We absolutely dominated the IPA categories, Taking out all 3 places for Specialty, and 1st and 2nd for IPA.

Masher	Place	Category	Style	Points
Cameron Kinder	1st	Low Alcohol	Ordinary Bitter	129
Todd Wade	1st	Pale Lager	Czech Premium Pale Lager	127.5
Jeffrey Bell	2nd	Dark Lager	Czech Dark Lager	121.5
Chris Schwinghamer	3rd	American Pale Ale	American Pale Ale	109.5
Shannon Brooks	2nd	Brown Ale	Irish Red Ale	109.5
Julian Robinson	2nd	Porter	Baltic Porter	120
Cameron Eldridge	2nd	Strong Stout	Imperial Stout	126
Chris Schwinghamer	1st	IPA	American IPA	135
Julian Robinson	2nd	IPA	American IPA	132.8
Rohan Lowe	1st	Specialty IPA	Black IPA	127.5
Julian Robinson	2nd	Specialty IPA	Red IPA	123
Shannon Brooks	3rd	Specialty IPA	Brown IPA	123
Ruth Barry	2nd	Sour Ale	Flanders Red Ale	121.5
Shannon Brooks	3rd	Belgian Ales	Bière de Garde	126
Cameron Eldridge	2nd	Fruit/Spice/Herb/Vegetable Beer	Oatmeal Stout with Vanilla	129

Thanks Everyone!

An of course, a big thanks to everyone who took time out of their weekend to come alone and help out stewarding or judging on the day.

	Dean Smith	Ant Dinham	Cameron Eldridge	Cameron Kinder
	Jessee Swallow	Kris Domagala	Mark Conners	Mark Spies
	Nick Jackson	Paul Lazarou	Ralph Nischwitz	Rosie Ensink
	Todd Wade	Rohan Lowe

Aplolgies if I've missed anyone off this list, let me know and I'll update accordingly!