The 9th Annual WertContest
This competition was held on Saturday, March 8th 2008.
The results are in. The beer was nice and tasty...
63 entries....we had to combine beers for judging.
Thanks to all who entered!
Class 1 Lager/Pilsner
1st Veryl Todd-Werthogs
2nd Ken Todd-Lethbridge
3rd Dan Barr-Werthogs
Class 2 Bock/Light Hybrid/Amber Hybrid
1st Joel Rathgaber-Ales
2nd Veryl Todd-Werthogs
3rd Veryl Todd-Werthogs
Class 3 Scottish and Irish Ale
1st Rick August-Ales
2nd Mark Whitehead-Werthogs
3rd Dan Barr-Wrthogs
Class 4 English Pale/American Ale
1st Jason Foster-EHG
2nd David Gummer-Yeast Wranglers
3rd John Wood-Werthogs
Class 5 English Brown
1st Mark Whitehead-Werthogs
2nd D'Arcy Kavanagh-Werthogs
3rd Ian Hepher-Werthogs
Class 6 IPA
1st David Gummer-Yeast Wranglers
2nd Rick August-Ales
3rd John Wood-Werthogs
Class 7 German Wheat and Rye/Belgian and French Ale
Belgian Strong/Strong Ale
1st Rick August-Ales
2nd Mario Menard-Quebec
3rd Tanjie Wong-Lethbridge
Class 8 Stout
1st John Wood-Werthogs
2nd Mark Whitehead-Werthogs
3rd John Wood-Werthogs
Class 9 Fruit/Spice/Smoke/Special
1st Joel Rathgaber-Ales
2nd Mark Whitehead-Werthogs
3rd Veryl Todd-Werthogs
Best of Show...
Rick August -Ales- American Barleywine
Runner-up Mark Whitehead - Werthogs English Brown
Congratulations to all winners!
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The 8th Annual WertContest
This year's competition was held on Saturday, March 24th 2007.
The results have been tabulated and collated and enjoyed. There were
many great beers that were entered and we now have winners. If the winners
would now submit their recipes to Jeff Oliver we will call this year's event complete!
8th Annual Werthogs Competition--44 entries
(lower numbers forced some combining of classes)
Group 1 (light lager, pilsner, European amber)
1st Ron Svrcek (Werthogs) Premium American Pilsner
2nd Bruce Sample (EHG) Bohemian Pilsner
3rd Tex Kenney (Werthogs) Bohemian Pilsner
Group 2 (dark lager, bock)
1st Bruce Sample (EHG) Traditional Bock
2nd Bruce Sample (EHG)Dark American Lager
3rd Matthew Smolak (EHG) Traditional Bock
Group 3 (English pale, Scottish, American ale,English Br)
1st Matthew Smolak (EHG) strong Scotch ale
2nd Kevin Zaychuk (EHG) ESB
3rd Bruce Sample (EHG) American Brown
Group 4 (IPA)
1st Mark Whitehead (Werthogs) Imperial IPA
2nd Glen Hannah (EHG) American IPA
3rd Bruce Sample (EHG) English IPA
Group 5 (Porter)
1st Mike Broza (Ales) Robust porter
2nd Mark Whitehead (Werthogs) Brown Porter
3rd Bruce Sample (EHG) Robust porter
Group 6 (stout)
1st Bruce Sample (EHG) Russian Imperial
2nd Mark Whitehead (Werthogs) Russian Imperial
3rd Steve Deppisch (Werthogs) Oatmeal
Group 7 (German wheat & rye,Belgian ale,Belgian strong)
1st Bruce Sample (EHG) Old Ale
2nd Mark Whitehead (Werthogs) German weissbier
3rd Kevin Zaychuk (EHG) Belgian pale ale
Group 8 (fruit, spice herb,smoke, specialty)
1st Mark Whitehead (Werthogs) wood aged beer
2nd Matthew Smolak (EHG) specialty
3rd Jamie Singer (Ales) spice beer
Best of Show Trophy
Matthew Smolak (EHG) Strong Scottish
Runner up-Mark Whitehead (Werthogs) Imperial IPA
A great competition--thanks to all participants.
Veryl Todd-President, Lethbridge Werthogs