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Also Many Thanks

We would like to thank Eternity Brewing and Cadillac Straits for serving as drop off sites.

A BIG Thank you to Matt Becker and Brewery Becker for providing the judging venue and Best of Show prize.

Finally thank you to everyone who entered, organized, stewarded, and judged the competition.

There were 134 entries in this year’s Deathmash.

Flyover America

Gold: Let the Wookie Win 19C: American Brown Ale, Brian Stephens (Keepers) 4
Silver: Pale Blonde Beer 18A: Blonde Ale, Timothy Wicklund (Keepers) 2
Bronze: Yard Brew 1B: American Lager, Tony Satullo (MCM) 1

IPA

Gold: 21B: Specialty IPA, Doug Bulthuis (KGoB) 4
Silver: Stinky 21B: Specialty IPA, Michael Neville (MCM) 2
Bronze: Double Snakes and Foxes 22A: Double IPA, Brian Stephens (Keepers) 1

British

Gold: O’Kulahan’s Extra Stout 15C: Irish Extra Stout, Larry Kula (Cass) 4
Silver: Gather the Clans 14C: Scottish Export, Larry Kula (Cass) 2
Bronze: How many leaves does this clover have? 15B: Irish Stout, Craig Matney (MCM) 1
HM: MacKnaufs 80 Shilling Ale 14C: Scottish Export, Jim Satin (AABG)

Salad

Gold: Bermuda Shorts 29B: Fruit and Spice Beer, Melissa Edmunds (AABG) 4
Silver: 30A:Spice/Herb/Vegetable Beer, Jason Petroczy (MCM) 2
Bronze: Jolliest Bunch of Assholes This Side of The Nuthouse. 30C: Winter Seasonal Beer, George Turner (KGoB) 1
HM: ValenTime 29A: Fruit Beer, Anthony Leithauser (AABG)

Mead and Cider

Gold: Frozezone C2D: Ice Cider, Tony Greening (KGoB) 4
Silver: Paradise Gold M2E:Melomel, Daniel Kukuk (MCM) 2
Bronze: Fraunchy the 4th C1C: French Cider, George Turner (KGoB) 1
HM: Andrew Klines Backyard M2E: Melomel, Bill Bellair (KGoB)

Best of Show:

Frozezone C2D: Ice Cider, Tony Greening (KGoB) 3

Overall Club

KGB – 13
Keepers – 8
MCM – 8
CASS – 6
AABG – 4
Livingston – 0
SOL – 0

We are excited to announce that Deathmash 2022 judging will take place at a private warehouse in Brighton Michigan on Saturday April 30, 2022. With that date only about 5 weeks away it means registration, entry and entry drop off dates will be starting very soon (see dates below). We are still working out the details as far as times and other logistics so we’ll let you all know as soon as we have those nailed down. In the mean time please check out the other pages here on the website for accepted styles, and registration information.

Other Dates to know about

• April 1st – Registration Opens
• April 8th – Entry Drop off begins
• April 14th – Registration Ends
• April 17th – Entry drop off ends
• April 30th – Competition Judging

Congratulations to the Motor City Mashers on winning possession of the Competition Mash Paddle for another year.

Overall Best-Of-Show
Mike Neville (5D – German Pils) 3 (M)

American (21 entries)
1st – Mike Neville (1B – American Lager) 4 (M)
2nd – Daniel Kukuk (1C – Cream Ale) 2 (M)
3rd – Keith Manchester (1C – Cream Ale) 1 (C)

Belgian (18 entries)
1 st – Charles Wolfe (25B – Saison) 4 (S)
2nd – Steve Simison (25A – Belgian Blond Ale) 2 (M)
3rd – Matthew Harris (26B – Belgian Dubbel) 1 (S)

British(ish) (14 entries)
1 st – Duke Turner (12B – Australian Sparkling Ale) 4 (K)
2nd – Matt Williams (15A – Irish Red Ale) 2 (M)
3rd – Danyal Cetin (14B – Scottish Heavy) 1 (S)

German (14 entries)
1st – Mike Neville (5D – German Pils) 4 (M)
2nd – Daniel Kukuk (8B – Schwarzbier) 2 (M)
3rd – Michael Myers (10A – Weissbier) 1 (C)

The Brewnited Nations (16 entries)
1st – Tim Gray (32A – Classic Style Smoked Beer) 4 (M)
2nd – Jared Aumen (32B – Specialty Smoked Beer) 2 (A)
3rd – Melissa Edmunds (32A – Classic Style Smoked Beer) 1 (A)

TOTAL ENTRIES = 83

CLUB POINT TOTALS

• MOTOR CITY MASHERS (M) – 23
• SONS OF LIBERTY (S) – 6
• KGB (K) – 4
• ANN ARBOR BREWERS GUILD (A) – 3
• CRAFT (C) – 2

Congratulations to Mike Neville of Motor City Mashers who took home the FastFerment and who will brew his Best of Show recipe at Brewery Becker.

Thank you to Adventures in Homebewing, Brewing World, Cap ‘N’ Cork, Wine Barrel Plus and Cadillac Straits for Serving as drop off sites

Additional thanks to…

Supernatural Brewing and Spirits for providing the judging venue.

Wine Barrel Plus & Adventures in Home Brewing for providing donating the medal winner’s prizes.

Wine Barrel Plus & Brewery Becker for providing the Best Of Show prizes.

Lastly Thanks to…

Everyone who entered, organized, stewarded and judged in this year’s competition.

Please visit our Competition Results page for previous year results

We would like to thank Wine Barrel Plus for not only allowing for the drop off of competition entries but also the donation of 5 German beer steins and a FastFerment fermentation system as prizes for winners of each category and best of show. This is Wine Barrel Plus’s second year sponsoring this club competition and we truly appreciate their support of not only our clubs but of the whole homebrewing community.

Celebrity Deathmash would like to thank Adventures in Homebrewing in both Taylor and Ann Arbor for not only allowing drop off of entries for the competition but also the prize donations including gift cards, bottle openers, Guinness sign, hop shots, hop candies and a beer ingredient themed shirt. As alway we appreciate their support of our competition and encourage our competitors to visit and tell them thanks.

There’s only a few days left to get your homebrew registered for Deathmash 2020 so make sure you have your bottles and cans, yes cans, ready to go!

This year the Celebrity Deathmash Competition will be accepting canned entries. They must be no larger than 12 ounces and be unmarked just like the bottle entries. We hope this will allow a few more of you to enter the competition that have moved on from bottling your homebrew.

Remember the last day to enter is Friday, February 14th so make sure you’re ready to rumble in Deathmash 2020.