Bug's 2025 year end brew recap

As the year closes, i figured i'd post a recap similar how i did last year of my brewing for the year.

I brewed 9 beers this year, with a possible 10th to be brewed before the year is over.

Beers Brewed:
7 Lagers
- Czech Pilsner
- New Zealand Pilsner
- Japanese Rice Lager
- Italian Pilsner - On tap, almost gone
- Munich Helles - Currently on tap
- Czech Pilsner - newly on tap
- Czech Amber Lager - Fermenting
2 Sours
- Mixed Fermentation Saison
- Lambic

I entered beers into 3 homebrew competitions this past year, earning 5 medals total (points out of 50):

- Czech Amber Lager - Bronze - (44). This beer has previously won silver in category last year.
- Oatmeal Stout - no medal - (34)
- Gueuze - entered in 2 comps, Bronze (47) and Silver (43)
- New Zealand Pils - entered in 2 comps, Bronze (38) and Gold (45)

I plan on entering my Helles, Czech Pale Lager, and Gueuze into Bluebonnet Brewoff in January.

My lagers are getting really good now. I'm starting to win medal with them, and my process is pretty well refined. Still brewing sours every now and then. The mixed ferm saisons will probably start going away, while i maintain brewing Lambic and blending Gueuze once/year. Didn't brew any ales this year. I'm not brewing as much anymore, so i find the lagering time allows me to set and forget the beer for awhile while i do other things.

A few beers i have planned next year:

Lambic #7 - May try to get this one brewed before the end of the year.
German Pils w/ Huell Melon and Mandarina Bavaria hops
Vienna Lager
German Pils with Heidelberg malt (very light malt), Rye, and hopped with German Perle
Rebrew of Biere de Table - This beer one gold and placed gold and 2nd Best of Show a few years back. Nice light, low ABV, slightly tart, refreshing saison.
Toasted Coconut Brown Ale
And as always, a czech pils, and czech amber will be throw in there.

Brew Total Recap - 138 beers brewed:

2025 - 9 beers
- 7 lagers, 2 mixed ferm/sours
2024 - 10 beers
- 5 lagers, 5 clean ales, 0 mixed ferm/sours
2023 - 10 beers
- 4 lagers, 3 clean ales, 3 mixed ferm/sours
2022 - 15 beers
- 4 lagers, 1 pseudo lager blend, 3 clean ales, 7 mixed ferm/sours
- 2022 is the first year i started brewing legitimate lagers
2021 - 11 beers
- 3 pseudo lager blend, 1 kveik, 3 clean ales, 4 mixed ferm/sours
2020 - 17 beers
- 1 lager, 5 clean ales, 11 mixed ferm/sours
2019 - 8 beers
- 4 clean ales, 4 mixed ferm/sours
2018 - 6 beers
- 1 clean ale, 5 mixed ferm/sours
2017 - 9 beers
- not good enough records in beersmith
2011 - 2016 - 43 beers brewed

Brew Competition Stats
21 total beers entered into competitions, 12 medals earned. 1st Competition was in 2015, but didn't really start entering into comps until 2022. I hope to continue entering competitions. However, I don't believe this year, i'll be brewing beer

Total Competition Award Count (12):
- 2 Best of Show - Silver Medals
- 10 category medals - 4 Gold, 3 Silver, 3 Bronze
- - - 2015 - (2) - 1 Gold Cat., 1 Silver BOS
- - - 2022 - (1) - 1 Gold Cat.
- - - 2023 - (3) - 1 Gold Cat., 1 Silver BOS, 1 Bronze Cat.
- - - 2024 - (1) - 1 Silver Cat.
- - - 2025 - (5) - 2 Bronze Cat., 2 Silver Cat., 1 Gold Cat.