I would like the following people recognized for their help in
the Shamrock
2003:
Dave Buning - Thanks for your help with the raffle. All the nightly meetings at my house organization/drinking beer and the day you took off to help label the bottles. A great man and friend.
Mike Dixon - An awesome assistant and without you this competition would not have gone off so smoothly. Your attention to detail is out of this world. I appreciate you coordinating the Raffle, what a turn out, people will remember this compitition for a long time. There is no possible way to list all the stuff you did for this competition. THANKS!!
Donna Murphery - Thanks for setting up the tables and getting the stewarts organized and a big thanks for helping Richard the day of the competition. Always willing to help anyone.
Jim Navecky - I appreciate all your work on keeping the web page up-to-date. Especially the on-line registration.
Bill Pollard - Many thanks for helping Mike with the raffle.
Richard Todd - The REAL organizer. Thanks for your diligence on the day of the competition organizing, sorting and working your magic with the computer.
Mike Wallace - Thanks, Oh, by the way; Did you bring the money??
Mike Weiss - Thanks for helping out with the raffle. The bread getter-picker-upper. Also, thanks for all your help the day of the competition getting the beer to BB&Y(kinda important). Thanks for keeping the beer cool and for being my beer runner. You were my catch all guy.
Jim Brewer (Organizer)
Best of Show 1st Place: Jim Brewer 24 Specialty, Experimental, Historical Beer CARBOY (Wheat Wine) 2nd Place: Gary Cathey 3a Blond Ale Carolina Brewmasters 3rd Place: Brian Cole 8a Koelsch-Style Ale MALT
American and Euro. Pale lagers Category(s): 1,2 1st Place: Glenn Thomas 2b Northern German Pilsner CARBOY 2nd Place: Mac Wylie 1c Classic American Pilsner Battleground Brewers 3rd Place: Steve Schammel 1b Dark American Lager Independent Light Ales Category(s): 3 1st Place: Gary Cathey 3a Blond Ale Carolina Brewmasters 2nd Place: James Bond 3b American Wheat Ale MALT 3rd Place: Gary Cathey 3c Cream Ale Carolina Brewmasters Honorable Mention Jeff Ziemba 3c Cream Ale Battleground Brewers Ordinary and Special Bitters Category(s): 4a,4,b 1st Place: Gary Cathey 4b Special or Best Bitter Carolina Brewmasters 2nd Place: Joel Masters 4a Ordinary Bitter Palmetto State Brewers 3rd Place: Sonja & Mark Burris 4b Special or Best Bitter Palmetto State Brewers English Pale Ale Category(s): 4c 1st Place: Michael Weiss 4c Strong Bitter/English Pale Ale CARBOY 2nd Place: Brian Cole 4c Strong Bitter/English Pale Ale MALT 3rd Place: Terry Finch 4c Strong Bitter/English Pale Ale CARBOY American Pale Ale Category(s): 6a 1st Place: Brian Cole 6a American Pale Ale MALT 2nd Place: Glenn Thomas 6a American Pale Ale CARBOY 3rd Place: Jim Brewer 6a American Pale Ale CARBOY Scottish ale and American Amber Category(s): 5, 6b 1st Place: James Bond 5c Scottish Export 80/- MALT 2nd Place: Jim Smith 6b American Amber Ale CARBOY 3rd Place: Brian Cole 5c Scottish Export 80/- MALT India Pale Ale Category(s): 7 1st Place: David Keller 7 India Pale Ale MALT 2nd Place: Tom Viemont 7 India Pale Ale CARBOY 3rd Place: Jim Brewer 7 India Pale Ale CARBOY Honorable Mention Jim Smith 7 India Pale Ale CARBOY Koelsch and Altbier Category(s): 8 1st Place: Brian Cole 8a Koelsch-Style Ale MALT 2nd Place: Mike Dixon 8b Dusseldorf Altbier CARBOY 3rd Place: David Keller 8a Koelsch-Style Ale MALT O'fest, Dark lager and Bock Category(s): 9,13,14 1st Place: Gary Kunes 14c Doppelbock Carolina Brewmasters 2nd Place: John Oshman 13b Schwarzbier Carolina Brewmasters 3rd Place: David Keller 13a Munich Dunkel MALT Honorable Mention Patrick Schneider 14c Doppelbock (outside NC) Brown ale Category(s): 10 1st Place: John Oshman 10d American Brown Ale Carolina Brewmasters 2nd Place: Brian Cole 10d American Brown Ale MALT 3rd Place: Michael Weiss 10d American Brown Ale CARBOY Honorable Mention Gary Cathey 10d American Brown Ale Carolina Brewmasters Strong ale and smoked beer Category(s): 11, 23 1st Place: David Keller 11a Old Ale MALT 2nd Place: Jeff Ziemba 23b Other Smoked Beer Battleground Brewers 3rd Place: Gary Kunes 11b Strong Scotch Ale Carolina Brewmasters Barleywine an Imperial Stout Category(s): 12 1st Place: Glenn Thomas 12b American-style Barleywine CARBOY 2nd Place: David Keller 12c Russian Imperial Stout MALT 3rd Place: Mike Dixon 12b American-style Barleywine CARBOY Porter Category(s): 15 1st Place: Jay Schrade 15a Robust Porter Tennessee Valley Hombrewers 2nd Place: Glenn Thomas 15b Brown Porter CARBOY 3rd Place: David Keller 15a Robust Porter MALT Stout Category(s): 16 1st Place: J Wilson 16a Dry Stout Independent 2nd Place: Terry Finch 16d Foreign Extra Stout CARBOY 3rd Place: Brian Cole 16d Foreign Extra Stout MALT Strong Belgian and Lambics Category(s): 18, 20 1st Place: David Craft 18d Belgian Strong Dark Ale Battleground Brewers 2nd Place: Robert Leach 18a Dubbel Palmetto State Brewers 3rd Place: Joel Masters 18b Tripel Palmetto State Brewers Wheat and Belgian/French ales Category(s): 17, 19 1st Place: Gary Cathey 17a Bavarian Weizen Carolina Brewmasters 2nd Place: Mike Dixon 19b Witbier CARBOY 3rd Place: Michael Weiss 17a Bavarian Weizen CARBOY Fruit beer Category(s): 21 1st Place: Jim Brewer 21 Fruit Beer CARBOY 2nd Place: Jimmy Jefferson 21 Fruit Beer CARBOY 3rd Place: Mike Dixon 21 Fruit Beer CARBOY Spice/H/Veg and Specialty Category(s): 22, 24 1st Place: Jim Brewer 24 Specialty, Experimental, Historical Beer CARBOY 2nd Place: William Lynch 22 Spice/Herb/Vegetable Beer Carolina Brewmasters 3rd Place: Mike Dixon 24 Specialty, Experimental, Historical Beer CARBOY Honorable Mention J Wilson 22 Spice/Herb/Vegetable Beer Independent Mead and Cider Category(s): 1st Place: Kevin Martin 25b Varietal Honey Traditional Mead Carolina Brewmasters 2nd Place: Kevin Martin 25e Other Fruit Melomel Carolina Brewmasters 3rd Place: Christopher Latta 25f Metheglin MALT