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BOB GENTER WINS!!!!!

By Mags Bonham

The April 5th meeting of the Green Mountain Mashers determined the winner of the annual Club Competition. This year’s challenge focused on the Schwarzbier style. Longtime member and former President Bob Gentry’s entry rose to the top of a gaggle of competing entries. When asked what wining the Challenge means Bob said  "I am very honored to have won the Masher Challenge.  We have some great brewers in the club who entered a Schwarzbier in this competition.  In addition to the warm camaraderie and respect that we have for each other as brewers, regular events like the Masher Challenge and the Trub Trek have continued to make the Green Mountain Mashers an outstanding club for beer enthusiasts."

 

The Masher Challenge is a Club Competition held each year. The style to be brewed is picked by the previous year’s winner. All Club members are challenged to make the perfect version of the style which is judged in a similar fashion as in an official beer competition.  The Schwarzbier style for the 2010 Challenge was picked by Mrs. Monk, 

Bob Genter wins the much coveted Masher Challenge

Bob is already thinking about next year’s challenge.  “I have a couple of ideas for the next beer for the Masher Challenge, and I’ll decide in the next few weeks.  I am thinking of a style that is challenging but within the capability of simple brewing systems (and that won’t contaminate our systems with bugs like Brettanomyces!).”

 

  The next Club competition will be the Mashers Clone Challenge to be held this fall. Darrell Whitaker, the last Clone Challenge winner,

 

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April 16, 2010

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who won the 2009 Challenge. 

 

The newly created Mashers Challenge Trophy, designed by current President Andy Ferko, will be Bob’s to proudly display for his year as reigning Masher Challenge Winner, and will be passed on to each subsequent year’s winner.  

Bob’s secret recipe for his winning entry will soon be available on the Masher’s web site at www.Mashers.org for all to try and replicate.

picked Ommegang Abbey Ale as this year’s clone. Club President Andy Ferko is already working on a design for the Clone Challenge trophy. Get started on your entry soon so that you can win bragging rights to the title and ownership of the trophy for a year.