Jeff G: Good luck, hope it does well and you get some good feedback!

Mat : Thanks a lot, Jeff G. I am excited to get objective feedback. It's a little unconventional but under the "spiced beer" category, so might do ok.

Jeff G: Mat yep, that's probably the right category for it! They usually stick pretty tight to the style guide.

Mat : Jeff G. But I also entered a chili beer and only one per category. It had some oats and rauchmalz, so was submitted under experimental. I'll report back how And Per Se And does when I get the results.

Jeff G: Mat looking forward to hearing how it does. For the future, I might sub the pepper beer as a smoked beer because of the rauch, if you want to keep it out of spice and depending on how prominent the smoke is. Probably too late for this one, but next time.

Jeff G: 32B

Jeff G: Categorization is a big part of submitting to comps. I've struggled with how the beer is "supposed to be" as planned versus how it actually turns out in regards to submission in the past, for sure.

Mat : Jeff G. It was subtlely smoky and most definitely had a spicy chili finish, so I hear how it would fare under 32B. I had an out of spec rauchbier once that would have fit but was before I was submitting to competitions and went quick after aging.

Mat : Jeff G. Thanks for the advice! I have an extra spicy variant for a competition that's due in April that I might submit pending how this round's chili beer shows.