UVBG members have a great history of producing award winning beers, ciders, meads, and wines. Unfortunately, most of these awards were not documented in our web site…time to change that! Here’s the winners from the recent past and we’ll keep trying to dig up award documentation received in the earlier years of the club.
Upcoming People’s Choice Competition (11/09/2024, Bend OR): Hiroshi’s Nickel Mine Porter will be one of the entries poured at Boneyard Brewing. Here’s his entry description put out by Sunriver Brewing for this event.
COHO Pro-Am 2024: Not only did the Umpqua Valley Brewers Guild do well at the Douglas County Fair in both beer, cider, and wine entries (12 ribbons noted earlier), but on 8/12/2024, Hiroshi’s Nickel Mine Porter won a well deserved place in the Central Oregon Homebrewers Organization (COHO) Pro-Am competition. For those of you who may be unfamiliar with this prestigious event, here’s some overview information.
Edited excerpt from COHO Pro-Am website: The Central Oregon Pro-Am pairs homebrewers with commercial breweries to craft unique beers and compete for top honors at a people’s choice judging. The event was organized by the Central Oregon Homebrewers Organization (COHO) and is intended to bring together the Central Oregon brewing community.
This is a non-BJCP sanctioned homebrew competition open to Oregon residents only. Winners will brew their recipe with the pros at Central Oregon commercial breweries. The resulting “pro-am” beers will debut and compete during a tap-takeover at Boneyard Pub on November 9, 2024. Proceeds will go to a charity selected by the winner.
Participating breweries include 10 Barrel Brewing Co., Bend Brewing Company, Bevel Craft Brewing, Boneyard Beer, Bridge 99 Brewery, Crux Fermentation Project, Deschutes Brewery, GoodLife Brewing Company, Spider City Brewing, Sunriver Brewing Company, Wild Ride Brewing, and Worthy Brewing Company.
Hiroshi’s Nickel Mine porter was selected by for a commercial scale-up by Sunriver Brewing Company and he has been invited to supervise and help with the brewing at Sunriver. This porter also won a first place in its division at COHO’s Spring Fling 2024 competition!
The club had a great showing at the 2024 Douglas County Fair! Congratulations to everyone!
Umpqua Valley Brewers Guild winners
2024 Douglas County Fair (8/7-8/11)
Division 150 (Beer & Cider)
Pale Ale (class 1 Blonde Ale) – 2nd place Jessie McHaffie
Scotch Ale (class 2 Scottish Ale) – 1st place Jessie McHaffie
Porter (class 3 Cornish Creme) – 2nd place Michael Stansbury
Spiced & Specialty Beers (class 6 Habanero Mango IPA) 1st place Scott Nelson
Spiced & Specialty Beers (class 6 Octoberfest) – 2nd place Robert Rochambeau
Lager (class 7) – 1st place Michael Stansbury
IPA (class 9) – 2nd Robert Rochambeau
IPA (class 9) – 3rd David Quilla
Hard Cider (class 11) – 1st place Deanna McHaffie
Any Other Not Listed (class 13 Whiskey Barrel aged Porter) – 1st place Scott Nelson
Division 170 (Wines)
Fruit Wine, sweet (div 170, class 10 Mango wine) – 2nd place Rhonda Stansbury
Shown above: Judge’s Choice 2024 Wine Division, Mango Wine – Rhonda Stansbury
2024 Spring Fling: Competition was hosted by Central Oregon Home Brewers – COHO with 289 total entries over multiple categories. The judges found Hiroshi’s Nickel Mine Porter to be worthy of first place in the American Porter and Stout category.
Hiroshi also garnered a 2nd place award in the Amber and Brown Ale category for his Mt. Nebo Brown Ale.
2024 Cascade Brewers’ Midwinter Madness: American Stout/Porter category Hiroshi Oki, 1st place Weather Goat Stout and Mike Stansbury 2nd place Cornish Creme American Porter
2024 Newport Amateur Wine Competition: Robin Oki, Gold Ribbon
2023 COHO Spring Fling: Hiroshi Oki, 3rd place Dark Night Sky American Porter
2023 Douglas County Fair: Robert Rochambeau – 1st place Amber beer, Hiroshi Oki – Judges Choice Ribbon, Robin Oki – 2nd & 3rd place for her wine & mead entries
2023 KLCC Home Brew Competition: Hiroshi Oki, 2nd place Bobby-Dazzler American Stout and 3rd place Heavens to Betsy American Amber Ale
2018 Cascade Brewers Cup: 3rd place, American Porter and Stout category, Hiroshi Oki
