SHBF - Swedish Home Brewers Association

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Published on Thursday, 29 April 2010 14:23

Swedish Beer Championship 2010

The Swedish Home Brewers Association (SHBF) is a non-profit association with about 1000 members. The purpose of SHBF is to spread information about small scale beer brewing, and especially brewing at home.

SHBF annually organizes the open Swedish Championship in home brewing. In 2010 was the 22nd time the championship was held, this time in Gothenburg. There are two types of evaluation of the beers, by the judges committee, and by the people. The judges blind tests all beers and ranks them in 11 classes according to type of beer. The people votes on all the present beers in three different classes; Top fermented, Bottom fermented, and Special Beers.

My fellow beer maker David Hertz and I entered the completion with only one brew, Gôtt, a hoppy but not bitter summer lager. The beer was represented in class 1 (Modern light lager) in judges’ completion and in class 1 (Bottom fermented beer) in people’s choice.

The beer placed second in judges’ completion and third in people’s choice.
Diploma in Judges' competion
Diploma in Peoples' choice
Link to SHBF hompage and results

We are very proud and happy; this was the third beer we entered in our second championship. In 2008 championship we won INKA class with our Hawaiian Wit and took home the beginners prize with our oak aged IPA Ferdinand.