Boston Beer announces the Sam Adams Longshot homebrew winners
By William Brand
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 at 11:22 am in Beer Business, Boston Beer Co. (Sam Adams), Craft Beer, Festivals.
The names of the four Longshot 2008 Homebrewing Contest finalists have been released by Boston Beer Co., Sam Adams and (as I have known for a month, since I helped judge the finalists) we have a local winner: He is Alex Drobshoff, of Berkeley, ((LATE CORRECTION: ALEX LIVES IN LIVERMORE)) who brewed a bang-up Traditional Bock. Mike McDole, by the way, is from Clayton, CA.
Here’s the word from Boson Beer:
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he results are in! Congratulations to Chad Warner of Massachusetts, (Mild Ale) (Michael Robinson of New Hampshire (Coffee Stout), Alex Drobshoff of California and Aaron Schenk of North Carolina (German Pils) for being selected as finalists in the 2008 Samuel Adams® American Homebrew Contest™. All four will join us at the Great American Beer Festival in Denver where we’ll announce which beer will join Mike McDole’s Double IPA in the 2009 LongShot® variety pack.
If you find yourself at the GABF, please be sure to stop by the LongShot booth to meet the finalists and vote on the 3rd brew to be included in the LongShot variety pack from our Samuel Adams employee homebrew contest.
Score sheets will be mailed to each entrant within the next few weeks. Once again, thank you for participating and congratulations to all of you on a job well done! COMPLETE RESULTS HERE…
For my report on judging the contest, GO HERE…
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July 15th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Correction: Alex Drobshoff is from Livermore. Awesome brewer, good dude.
July 15th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Way to go, Alex!!!
July 15th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Oops. I knew that. Damn sorry Alex.
July 16th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
No worries and thanks all. It’s funny where life takes you and the endeavors that we take on along the way. Like all homebrewers I derive pleasure when people like my beer and it makes them happy so it is a sort of cyclical thing where everyone wins. It is just amazing to taste the quality of the beers that people are making at home.
Cheers,
-Alex
July 16th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Hi Alex. I really liked your beer, by the way. And I got to taste a couple more of yours at the Alameda County Fair homebrew competition. Great stuff. Keep on brewing.
July 19th, 2008 at 10:02 am
Hearty congrats to Alex, and I look forward to joining you at GABF this October. Keep up the GREAT brewing! …and Bill, it was good meeting you at the Alameda County Fair homebrew comp. Excellent writeup about the Longshot finals judging, too!
July 19th, 2008 at 11:50 am
Congratulations to Alex! Winning the Long Shot is terrific recognition of a great homebrewer and an exceptional brew. Alex is an active member of the local homebrew club and helps out at the local homebrew competitions. It is nice to see someone with such an interest in homebrewing and such a flair for brewing, get top honors for doing something he loves. Way to go Alex!
July 20th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
With Rodger at the helm at Triple Rock, we’ll very likely see some great beers. He’s one creaetive brewer.