[THC] enter whatever you have if it TASTES LIKE a mild or a N or S English Brown!

[Linda Swihart]

Edgar Chatham wrote:
> ...If you have a brown ale ( northern or southern English, or mild ) which you think has turned out well we encourage you to submit it to possibly represent the club.  
If you have *any* beer that you made that you think might score decently 
compared to the category 11a, 11b, or 11c specs, NO MATTER WHAT YOU WERE 
GOING FOR, enter it in this CoC run-off.

Seriously, this is officially completely fair, legitimate, and the way 
it is done.  It runs counter to what most people expect at first, but 
trust me please; it's officially the way it is done and absolutely 
acceptable.

It doesn't matter if you made an American Pale Ale recipe and it turned 
out tasting like Newcastle; ENTER IT as a Northern English Brown (if it 
tastes like Newcastle!) 
The honesty part come in here -- *you can and should be honest about 
this.*  You do not have to and really should not say you tried to make a 
Newcastle clone, not unless you really did.  You can admit -- modestly 
would be nice -- that it was a complete accident.  Your claim to some 
skill is in recognizing/accepting it as a Newcastle clone and entering 
it where it might win.

In Indy 2007 or 2008 B-Cup FBI-er Bill Ballinger got gold for a beer he 
entered as a dunkelweizen when what he meant to brew was a trad bock.  
It contained no wheat, and something went wrong with his efficiency (or 
his grain weighing!)....  But it turned out tasting like a very really 
nice dunkelweizen and the judges thought so too.  Bill has a LOT of blue 
and red ribbons, medal too, and part of the skill is knowing how to enter.

See the style guide for 11 (a-c) including lists of "classic commercial 
examples" for each subcategory.
http://www.bjcp.org/2008styles/style11.php

L.