I submitted my Hoppy Gnome IPA to this year’s National Homebrew Competition.  It didn’t make it out of the regional round, but it did do very well – a 37.5 out of 50 possible points, good enough to earn a Silver Certificate, which I fully intend to frame and display proudly.  This is only the second recipe I came up with on my own, and American IPA is a notoriously difficult category, because of the large number of entries this category receives.  It did much better than I hoped. Continue reading →