The annual Gawler Show brewing competition results were announced over the weekend and SA Brewing Club members dominated the podium with their entries as well as taking out best of show and best brewer. Greg Wieder won best of show beer with his Dark Mild and Keiren Vercoe took home best of show brewer with three first places, two second and four third-place medals.
Congratulations to both of them for this outstanding result as well as; John Van der Zalm, Gary Waters, Gus Kingston and Neill Gardner for places in categories. This is hopefully a good indication that SABC will also do well in the State Amateur Brewing Show, SA (SABSOSA) that is being judged this weekend.
This year’s field is the highest number of entries in the competition for a long time (if not a record) at 372. The judges and stewards will surely have their work cut out for them.
The results will be announced next week with the presentations being held on Sunday 9th September at the Wheatsheaf Hotel at 12:30 pm. We’re making this a club social gathering, so drop by for a beer and celebrate the state’s top brewers.
Gawler Show – Best of show results.
| Place | Brewer | Entry Name | Style | Club |
| 1st | Greg Wieder | Dark Mild | Dark Mild | SA Brewing Club |
| 2nd | Kieren Vercoe | Rum A Stout | Experimental Beer | SA Brewing Club |
| 3rd | Paul Sparkes | Secrets of the Hangman Apa | American Pale Ale |
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Gawler Show – Style winners
Style 1: Standard American Beer (2 entries)
| Place | Brewer | Entry Name | Style | Club |
| N/A |
Style 4: Pale Malty European Lager (2 entries)
| Place | Brewer | Entry Name | Style | Club |
| 1st | Kieren Vercoe | Festbier | Festbier | SA Brewing Club |
Style 5: Pale Bitter European Beer (2 entries)
| Place | Brewer | Entry Name | Style | Club |
| 3rd | Kieren Vercoe | German Pilsner | German Pils | SA Brewing Club |
Style 7: Amber Bitter European Beer (1 entry)
| Place | Brewer | Entry Name | Style | Club |
| 2nd | Gary Waters | Düsseldorf Alt | Altbier | SA Brewing Club |
Style 10: German Wheat Beer (2 entries)
| Place | Brewer | Entry Name | Style | Club |
| 2nd | Greg Wieder | Weizenbock | Weizenbock | SA Brewing Club |
| 3rd | John Van der Zalm | Dunkels Wheat | Dunkels Weissbier | SA Brewing Club |
Style 11: British Bitter (6 entries)
| Place | Brewer | Entry Name | Style | Club |
| 1st | Stuart Kirk | Bit Ordinary | Ordinary Bitter | |
| 2nd | Kieren Vercoe | Bitter | Ordinary Bitter | SA Brewing Club |
Style 12: Pale Commonwealth Beer (2 entries)
| Place | Brewer | Entry Name | Style | Club |
| 3rd | Graham Stevens | Golden Ale | English Golden Ale |
Style 13: Brown British Beer (8 entries)
| Place | Brewer | Entry Name | Style | Club |
| 1st | Greg Wieder | Dark Mild | Dark Mild | SA Brewing Club |
| 2nd | Greg Wieder | English Brown | English Brown Ale | SA Brewing Club |
| 3rd | Kieren Vercoe | Dark Mild | Dark Mild | SA Brewing Club |
Style 14: Scottish Ale (1 entry)
| Place | Brewer | Entry Name | Style | Club |
| 2nd | Gary Waters | Wee Scott | Scottish Light | SA Brewing Club |
Style 16: Dark British Beer (1 entry)
| Place | Brewer | Entry Name | Style | Club |
| 1st | Greg Wieder | Sweet Stout | Sweet Stout | SA Brewing Club |
Style 17: Strong British Ale (1 entry)
| Place | Brewer | Entry Name | Style | Club |
| 1st | Gary Waters | Gary’s Old and Don’t Tell Me You Already Know That | Old Ale | SA Brewing Club |
Style 18: Pale American Ale (6 entries)
| Place | Brewer | Entry Name | Style | Club |
| 1st | Paul Sparkes | Secrets of the Hangman Apa | American Pale Ale | |
| 2nd | Neill Gardner | Paleobotanicale | American Pale Ale | SA Brewing Club |
Style 19: Amber and Brown American Beer (3 entries)
| Place | Brewer | Entry Name | Style | Club |
| 1st | Kieren Vercoe | Hop Drool | American Brown Ale | SA Brewing Club |
| 2nd | Gus Kingston | Baby Makes My Blue Eyes Brown | American Brown Ale | SA Brewing Club |
| 3rd | Stuart Kirk | Awesome Amber Ale | American Amber Ale |
Style 20: American Porter and Stout (5 entries)
| Place | Brewer | Entry Name | Style | Club |
| 2nd | Stuart Kirk | Midnight Vagabond Stout | American Stout | |
| 3rd | Neill Gardner | Pseudo-Pseuodonaja | American Porter | SA Brewing Club |
Style 21: IPA (3 entries)
| Place | Brewer | Entry Name | Style | Club |
| 3rd | Gus Kingston | The Riposte | American IPA | SA Brewing Club |
Style 22: Strong American Ale (1 entry)
| Place | Brewer | Entry Name | Style | Club |
| 3rd | Kieren Vercoe | American Barleywine | American Barleywine | SA Brewing Club |
Style 23: European Sour Ale (2 entries)
| Place | Brewer | Entry Name | Style | Club |
| 1st | Brett Hall | Berliner Weisse | Berliner Weisse | |
| 3rd | Kieren Vercoe | Insisting On A Fisting | Flanders Red Ale | SA Brewing Club |
Style 24: Belgian Ale (3 entries)
| Place | Brewer | Entry Name | Style | Club |
| 4th | Gavin Pennell | Belgian Pale Ale 2 | Belgian Pale Ale |
Style 25: Strong Belgian Ale (3 entries)
| Place | Brewer | Entry Name | Style | Club |
| 2nd | Gavin Pennell | Brett Saison | Saison |
Style 27: Historical Beer (2 entries)
| Place | Brewer | Entry Name | Style | Club |
| 1st | John Van der Zalm | Rye Wheat | Roggenbier | SA Brewing Club |
Style 30: Spiced Beer (3 entries)
| Place | Brewer | Entry Name | Style | Club |
| 3rd | Gary Waters | Grisette With Cucumber | Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer | SA Brewing Club |
Style 32: Smoked Beer (1 entry)
| Place | Brewer | Entry Name | Style | Club |
| 2nd | John Van der Zalm | Smoked Rye | Specialty Smoked Beer | SA Brewing Club |
Style 34: Specialty Beer (2 entries)
| Place | Brewer | Entry Name | Style | Club |
| 1st | Kieren Vercoe | Rum A Stout | Experimental Beer | SA Brewing Club |