Fellow FOAMers, the gauntlet has been thrown. We have 6 teams so far participating in this year’s Mash Your Luck Club Competition, which we will be judging in July. Want to still participate? We will spin the wheel for additional teams at the April meeting.
For those new to FOAM, here’s how it works… We take 5 basic categories of brewing beer and spin for each team to determine what criteria for each category each team should meet for making the Mash Your Luck Beer. After we spin for each category, teams have the option of taking a mulligan on one category and re-spin. Teams will be required to fill out a form describing their beer before the judging is July.
We encourage FOAMers to team up with a fellow FOAMer or two to formulate and brew for this club competition, but you can also brew solo.
Here are the five categories:
| ABV | IBU | Color | Region | Adjunct |
| Very Low: 0-3% Low: 3.1-5% Medium: 5.1-7% High: 7.1-9% Very High: 9.1+% |
Low: 0-25 IBU Medium: 26-50 High: 51-75 Very High: 75+ |
Pale (straw) Golden Amber Brown Dark |
US Germany British Isles Belgium Australasia |
Fruit Flaked Grains Fermentable Sugars Spices None |
Here are the teams rolls:
| Team | ABV | IBU | Color | Region | Adjunct |
| Mac Butcher
Fred Schell |
Very Low: 0-3% | Low: 0-25 IBU | Amber | Australasia | Fruit |
| Desiree Knott
Chris Mackechney |
High: 7.1-9% | Medium: 26-50 | Pale (straw) | Germany | Flaked Grains |
| Valerie Grogan
Grant Carpenter Cody Cannon |
Medium: 5.1-7% | High: 51-75 | Brown | Germany | None |
| Dave Knott
Scott Mackechney |
High: 7.1-9% | Low: 0-25 IBU | Pale (straw) | Belgium | None |
| Toby Smith | Very High: 9.1+% | Low: 0-25 IBU | Amber | British Isles | Spices |
| Daniel Vanderslice
Tyler Coon Robert Culpepper |
High: 7.1-9% | Medium: 26-50 | Amber | US | None |
Desiree Knott
VP-Communications
FOAM Cup Organizer
FOAMCup.us
vp-communications@alemakers.org