Thanks to all the brewers who entered their beers in this year's CBS
Spooky Brew Review homebrew competition, held yesterday. And especially
thanks to all the judges and stewards who made this competition happen.
One category below was added at the last minute. A group of drop-off
entries was misplaced by the receivers, but was found in the afternoon
(in a kitchen cooler) after judging was nearly done. This is one of
those organizer's nightmares, but it happened. Those which were in
categories still being judged, were judged as they should be. A couple
others that were offbeat custom beers anyway, were shifted into the
Specialty category since it was still being judged. The others were
placed into a new open category, and judged against one another, with
ribbons awarded for the winners. It was the best we could think of to
do, at 3:00PM with the competition winding down. We're just really glad
they were finally found. We apologize to the brewers of these beers, and
we also thank those judges who agreed to stay to judge a third flight of
the day to get these beers properly evaluated.
Roger Deschner, Brad Reeg, Zemo Holat
Organizers, CBS Spooky Brew Review Homebrew Competition
CBS Spooky Brew Review 2008 Results
October 25 2008
Sponsored by Chicago Beer Society
123 Entries
BEST OF SHOW
1 Gregg Ferlin New Lennox,IL 1D Munich Helles
Brewers of South Suburbia - Proud American Helles
2 Ron Stazuk Palos Hills,IL 17B Flanders Red
Chicago Beer Society -
Table 1 - Light Lager (6 Entries)
1 Gregg Ferlin New Lennox,IL 1D Munich Helles
Brewers of South Suburbia - Proud American Helles
2 Lane Fearing Barrington,IL 1D Munich Helles
3 Michael Pearson Anderson,IN 2A German Pilsner
Meca Brewers - Erbe Pils
Table 2 - Amber/Dark Lager (9 Entries)
1 Michael Pearson Anderson,IN 4B Munich Dunkel
Meca Brewers - New Andrechs Dunkel
2 Daryl Hoedtke Chicago,IL 3B Oktoberfest
Chicago Beer Society - Oktoberfest
3 John Saarima Geneva,IL 4B Munich Dunkel
Silverado -
Table 3 - Un-American Un-Dark Ale (7 Entries)
1 Lane Fearing Barrington,IL 6B Blond Ale
2 Stacy Kolls Belvidere,IL 10B American Amber Ale
Forest City Brewers -
3 Ed Seaman Streamwood,IL 6B Blond Ale
Urban Knaves of Grain - I Don't Know
Table 4 - American Pale Ale (8 Entries)
1 Greg Cardelli Batavia,IL 10A American Pale Ale
Urban Knaves of Grain - Emma's Ale
2 Harry Bielawski St. John,IN 10A American Pale Ale
Brewers of South Suburbia - Classic pale Ale
3 Drew Lewis St Louis,MO 10A American Pale Ale
St. Louis Brews - Elf's APA
Table 5 - Dark Ale (10 Entries)
1 Tim McCormick Chicago,IL 10C American Brown Ale
Chicago Beer Society - Smooth Obamarator
2 Douglas Wich Chicago,IL 10C American Brown Ale
Chicago Beer Society - American Brown
3 Ryan Gentry Carmel,IN 11A Mild
Mild Mannered Ale
Table 6 - Wheat/Rye/Bock (9 Entries)
1 Douglas Wich Chicago,IL 15A Weizen
Chicago Beer Society - Wich Weizen
2 Gregg Ferlin, Dan Mahoney New Lennox,IL 5A Maibock
Brewers of South Suburbia - Proud American Maibock
3 Fred Meisner Highland,IN 5C Doppelbock
The Brewing Network - Dopplebock
Table 7 - Ales for India and Russia (9 Entries)
1 Scott Lasky, Chad Melinger Vernon Hills,IL 13F Russian Imperial Stout
BABBLE - Yeast Beast
2 Mark Westmeyer, Carl Barnard Chicago Heights,IL 14C Imperial IPA
Brewers of South Suburbia - Pliny-Like
3 Douglas Wich Chicago,IL 14B American IPA
Chicago Beer Society - Big American IPA
Table 8 - Belgian and French Ale (9 Entries)
1 Ron Stazuk Palos Hills,IL 17B Flanders Red
Chicago Beer Society -
2 Mike Pelter Schererville,IN 16E Belgian Specialty
Brewers of South Suburbia - Cyril Methodius
3 Mark Zgarrick Evanston,IL 17B Flanders Red
MABCAB - Stupid Flanders
Table 9 - Belgian Dubbel & Tripel (6 Entries)
1 Mike Pelter Schererville,IN 18B Belgian Dubbel
Brewers of South Suburbia - Raisen Youbetcha
2 Tom Dennis Naperville,IL 18C Belgian Tripel
Chicago Beer Society, Urban Knaves of Grain - La Debut Du Monde
3 Dan Morey Mundelein,IL 18C Belgian Tripel
BABBLE - Laisse il y Alt tripel
Table 10 - Belgian Strong Ale (6 Entries)
1 Jeff Sparrow Chicago,IL 18E Belgian Dark Strong Ale
Chicago Beer Society - Incubus
2 Dan Morey Mundelein,IL 18D Belgian Golden Strong Ale
BABBLE - Suiker Ruilmiddel
3 Tom Dennis Naperville,IL 18E Belgian Dark Strong Ale
Chicago Beer Society, Urban Knaves of Grain - Noel Night
Table 11 - Fruit & Spice Beer (9 Entries)
1 Rodney Kibzey Lombard,IL 20A Fruit Beer
Chicago Beer Society - Peaches & Hops
2 Mike Stogin Orland Park,IL 20A Fruit Beer
Hook 'em Up Blueberry Wheat
3 Darrell Proska Downers Grove,IL 21A Spice, Herb, Vegetable Beer
Urban Knaves of Grain -
Table 12 - Smoked & Specialty Beer (9 Entries)
1 Kevin Kowalczyk Chicago,IL 23A Specialty Beer
Chicago Beer Society - Jesus' & Heidi's Bday Lager
2 Ron Stazuk Palos Hills,IL 23A Specialty Beer
Chicago Beer Society - Oki Boing
3 Fred Meisner Highland,IN 22C Wood-Aged Beer
The Brewing Network - Oakey Porter
Table 13 - Mead & Cider (6 Entries)
1 Michael Pearson Anderson,IN 27A Common Cider
Meca Brewers - Sweetness
2 Ron Stazuk Palos Hills,IL 25A Cyser (Apple Melomel)
Chicago Beer Society - Big Apples
3 Steve Fletty Falcon Heights,MN 25B Pyment (Grape Melomel)
St Paul Homebrewers Club - Chauteau Fletty OBR
Table 14 - Witches' Brew (Women brewers only) (4 Entries)
1 Karina Shimkos Chicago,IL 31A Witches' Brew (women only)
Chicago Beer Society - Black Cauldron IPA
2 Stacy Kolls Belvidere,IL 31A Witches' Brew (women only)
Forest City Brewers - American Amber Ale
Table 15 - Spooky Brew (2 Entries)
1 Brian Richards Marquette,MI 29A Spooky Brew
Bay de Noc Berwers - Undead Sour Red
Table 16 - Smashed Pumpkin (4 Entries)
1 Ron Stazuk Palos Hills,IL
Chicago Beer Society - Teewanna Sunset Amber
Table 17 - Lost & Found (10 Entries)
1 Timothy Remus, Josh Maxwell Chcago,IL
Summit (Clone) Harvest Pale Ale
2 Kevin Kowalczyk Chicago,IL
Chicago Beer Society - Red on Head...
3 Kevin Kowalczyk Chicago,IL
Chicago Beer Society - Johanne Sebastian Bock