Ive been running my pregnant wife and children around all day, I need a drink...

Welcome @Maxime Richard! Tell us about that brewery you’re starting!

Here's some other communities you might find helpful and engaging Craft Brewers Guild: For brewers who want to level up their brewing game https://www.skool.com/abundance-group-6111/about?ref=724cccc54ee347a1b99fdadbcad2159c ABV Society: Mostly Distillers but they have parts of their community dedicated to Beer, Wine, Mead, you name it : https://www.skool.com/abv-society/about?ref=724cccc54ee347a1b99fdadbcad2159c Brewer: The Skool Community for Brewer Magazine. https://www.skool.com/brewer/about?ref=724cccc54ee347a1b99fdadbcad2159c BBQ, Beer, and Whiskey: A community for... you guessed it... Award-winning pitmaster teaching BBQ, craft beer & whiskey-making https://www.skool.com/bbq-beer-and-whiskey-9787/about?ref=724cccc54ee347a1b99fdadbcad2159c

@Stevr Collings What do you think the state of the pub is in the UK? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78vqj99168o

I’ve never entered any of my beers in any competition or subjected any of them to be professionally judged in any way…until this. Beer Connoisseur Magazine invited us to submit a beer for review. My philosophy is I’m not making beer for other brewers, and I’m not chasing clout. I’m the only brewery in the county, I make beer for a population of a few thousand people and I need to make beer that THEY like. But I thought what the hell, it’s free other than the shipping. I only had a few beers left in stock in cans and the most popular two I had were my White Pine Belgian Witbier and my August Skies Hazy IPA. Around here the White Pine is always a local faveorite. It’s real heavy on the orange peel so it’s very popular in the summer, and hazy IPAs are always a solid choice, but I figured they must get so many damn hazys Im gonna send them the White Pine. I thought, if they don’t like its not like I have to tell anybody about it lol But I was very pleased with the response. It even made my wife cry (albeit she’s 6 months pregnant so she cries a lot) seeing our name in the magazine that just showed up today with the list of “Top 100 Rated Beers in 2025”. There we were sitting at #53. With a score of 90/100. It was a nice jolt of positive reinforcement in an otherwise cold, muddy, and tight pursed time of year. Have any of you ever submitted anything for judging? If so, how did it feel?