While it does resemble a Cherry Ripe chocolate bar it’s not a really sweet beer – at least not to my palate anyway. So well that I reckon it could well have won the comp – if I so say so myself. So I pulled the pin – which meant I could keep all the tasty Cherry Ripe stout to myself.Īnd it has worked out very well. I put a lot of time and effort into brewing beer, and it just felt like this contest wasn’t respecting that at all. I heard that and thought, ‘‘nah, that’s me done’’. The organisers told him he could just enter his beer in the final anyway. The straw that broke the camel’s back was hearing from a guy who had missed the last pale ale heat. Which meant I likely knew more about beer than the people judging – which just seemed wrong.
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I was told they’d have brewery reps and professional brewers judging, but they ended up having the bar staff give 50 per cent of the score and the other half would come from the punters on the night. Because you’ve always asked yourself that, haven’t you? This is what 1.5kg of pureed cherries looks like.