The attached email from the AHA Tech Talk Forum should make anyone who helps at a competition feel good! Those of us who helped up in Duluth get a double dose of good feelings. ============================================================= From: Jorge Mouro [mailto:jorgelmouro@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 7:05 AM Subject: I WON!!! Hey Everybody, I just wanted to share the joy with everyone that I won my very first contest! http://www.northernalestars.org/greatnorthernbrewhaha.html . I won 1st place with my Stout! This is only the second contest I ever entered and I am super amazed that I won. My American Brown also scored really high on the charts (actually had a higher score than my stout). Either way, it is great to know that my biased friends are not the only ones who think my beer is good. I owe a bunch of this victory to the folks on this forum whose earnest advice has served me better and better each and every time I brew! For someone who has been brewing for just over a year and a half, I have gone from simple extract beers to all grain contest winners. Thanks Techtalk and thanks to the Northern Ale Stars for my very first medal!!!!! It will look great in my new Brooklyn Apartment! Jorge Harrison, NJ PS. I will enter these beers into more contests soon so some lucky judge out there can be lucky enough to try it! -- //Mike Behrendt MGBrew(a)comcast.net Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. Groucho Marx