Craft Beer & Brewing Course
How to Win a Beer Competition
Paul Odell covers the inner-workings of beer competitions and offers tips to help you stand out and win with your next entry.
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BJCP Certified Judge and award-winning homebrewer Paul Odell takes you through the ins-and-outs of beer competitions. In this video course, Paul covers:
- How your beer is tasted, judged, and scored
- The judging criteria and scoresheet
- Brewing for competitions
- Packaging for competitions
- Gaming to win
- Practical tips to give you an edge
- and much more
Course contents
3 chapters, 18 lessons, 1h 13m of video
Chapter 1
Introduction
- WelcomeFree preview2:18
- 5 Tips for Competition Brewing
Chapter 2
Techniques
- How Your Beer is Tested30:50
- Judging Criteria13:37
- Decoding Your Judging Scoresheet
- Packaging for Judging14:39
- Dialing in a Recipe
- Gaming to Win11:19
- Three Steps to Consistency
- Competition Winning Recipes - Dubbel Entendre Recipe
- Competition Winning Recipes - Alexander the Blessed Recipe
- Competition Winning Recipes - Reclamation Red Recipe
- Competition Winning Recipes - Who Will Guard The Guardians? Recipe
- Award Winning Pro Recipes - Alvarado Street Brewery 'Contains No Juice' Expressive IPA Recipe
- Award Winning Pro Recipes - WeldWerks Hefeweizen Recipe
- Award Winning Pro Recipes - Überbrew Humulus Insani
- Award Winning Pro Recipes - Copper Kettle Mexican Chocolate Stout Recipe
Chapter 3
Thank You
- Feedback
What students say
4.9 from 9 reviews
How to win a beer competition
Thanks so much - I was engaged through out the whole course and learnt a lot. This has to be one of if not the best course I have watched. Cheers Lee from New Zealand
Good Course
Well designed course. Instructor did a thorough job covering the various aspects of entering beer competitions and winning them.
I've never entered a competition. It has always seemed a little intimidating, but after watching this course, i feel pretty good about giving it a go.
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Well versed
I was impressed with the presenter, he knows the subject.
Very informative
Thought the video had great content, deliver, and good tips for competing. Other than that, might want to learn to use his beer gun. Never had that much foaming without a bigger problem.
Very interesting, many good tip
Informative and educational
Helpful and informative
I've never entered a competition. It has always seemed a little intimidating, but after watching this course, i feel pretty good about giving it a go.
Appropriate
Excellent course
Good course
Overall this was a good course. Lots of good advice and an interesting contest perspective. It does get a bit repetitive at times, but overall it is a valuable course.