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CELEBRITY DEATHMASH 2023 Results

    Congratulations to this year’s Celebrity Deathmash winning club, Keeper of Craft! Also congratulations to Brandon Edwards on his BOS German Helles Exportbier. This year’s Deathmash was definitely a Battle Royale with only 4 points separating the first and second place clubs with the overall BOS beer being the deciding winning factor. Most clubs brought their A game and placed in at least one category and overall scores for individual beers was high.

    Also Many Thanks

    We would like to thank Eternity Brewing and Cadillac Straits for serving as drop off sites.

    A BIG Thank you to Matt Becker and Brewery Becker for providing the Best of Show prize.

    Finally thank you to everyone who entered, organized, stewarded, and judged the competition.

    There were 89 total entries in this year’s Deathmash.

    German Engineering (19 entries)
    1st Brandon Edwards (5C – German Helles Exportbier) 4 (KC)
    2nd Kevin O’Brien (7B – Altbier) 2 (MC)
    3rd Doug Vohden (5B – Kölsch) 1 (KC)

    Not Yeast (15 entries)
    1st Nathan Kanous (23B – Flanders Red Ale) 4 (KC)
    2nd Steven Vroegop (23F – Fruit Lambic) 2 (KC)
    3rd Duke Turner (23C – Oud Bruin) 1 (KG)

    Waffle House (13 entries)
    1st Daniel Kukuk (25B – Saison) 4 (MC)
    2nd Jeff Chase (25A – Belgian Blond Ale) 2 (MC)
    3rd Doug Vohden (24C – Bière de Garde) 1 (KC)

    Just a Flesh Wound (25 entries)
    1st Craig Matney (13B – British Brown Ale) 4 (MC)
    2nd William Blakeslee (13A – Dark Mild) 2 (KC)
    3rd Gregory Stachnik (13A – Dark Mild) 1 (MC)

    Drink Your Wheaties (17 entries)
    1st Jared Aumen (10A – Weissbier) 4 (AA)
    2nd Jared Aumen (10C – Weizenbock) 2 (AA)
    3rd Doug Bulthuis (10C – Weizenbock) 1 (KG)

    Overall Best-Of-Show
    Brandon Edwards (5C – German Helles Exportbier) 3 (KC)

    Club Total Points

    • KEEPERS OF CRAFT (KC) 17 Total Points
    • MOTOR CITY MASHERS (MC) 13 Total Points
    • ANN ARBOR BREWERS GUILD (AA) 6 Total Points
    • KGB (KG) 2 Total Points
    • LIVINGSTON SOCIAL (LS) 0 Total Points
    • SONS OF LIBERTY (SL) 0 Total Points

    Please visit our Competition Results page for previous years winners.

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    It’s Time To Rumble Again

    It’s finally here! The 2023 Celebrity Deathmash is ready to go, so let the mayhem begin. This year’s competition promises to be bigger than ever, hell we even have new mash paddle for the Champions to raise in glory! Six clubs will battle it out to see who reigns supreme as the best of the best in homebrewing skill. Every year seems to be a true challenge of wit to see who will take home the coveted Best of Show prize and who will be the winning Deathmash Club Champion! So get your mash tuns heated and your fermentors bubbling and….. LET’S GET READY TO RUUUUUMMMMMBLLLLLLEEEEE!!!

    Registration begins February 10th and runs through February 23rd. Drop off for Entries begins February 17th through February 26th and Competition judging will be on Saturday March 11. Please check out the Registration page and Guidelines page for more details.

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    Time to get Brewing – Deathmash 2023 Categories Announced

    Time to get Brewing!

    With the successful Deathmash 2022 in the rear view mirror we have set our sites on next year’s competition. We’ve been hard at work reviewing how everything came together for the last competition and making sure that we continue to make this competition fresh and interesting. We feel that we’ve come up with a group of categories from the 2021 BJCP Style Guide that represent a wide variety of brewing styles to challenge and interest the highest caliber of brewers that the Celebrity Deathmash draws in from the clubs that are represented.

    The 5 Categories for 2023 Deathmash are as follow:

    Waffle House (24B, 24C, 25A, 25B, 25C)

    Just A Flesh Wound (13A, 13B, 13C)

    Drink Your Wheaties (1D, 10A, 10B, 10C, 24A)

    German Engineering (5B, 5C, 7B)

    Not Yeast (23A, 23B, 23C, 23D, 23E, 23F, 23G

    Please check out the 2023 Supported Styles page for more information and links to the various styles.

    Although we don’t yet have a date and location nailed down just yet we are planning for the competition to take place in late February or early March. We will provide updates as soon as we have definitive dates and location.

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    Deathmash 2022 Results are in

    Congratulations to the Ann Arbor Brewers Guild as they take possession of the coveted Deathmash Mash Paddle in their decisive win of the overall competition.

    Congratulations to Daniel Kukuk of Motor City Mashers on brewing the overall Best of Show beer (Kentucky Common). Dan will be brewing his winning beer recipe at Brewery Becker.

    Please visit the 2022 results page here on the website for full competition results for each category.

    Also Many Thanks

    We would like to thank Wine Barrel Plus, Eternity Brewing, and Cadillac Straits for serving as drop off sites.

    Also thanks to Adventures in Homebrewing for donating the Raffle prize.

    A BIG Thank you to Matt Becker and Brewery Becker for providing the Best of Show prize.

    Finally thank you to everyone who entered, organized, stewarded and judged the competition.

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    2022 Deathmash Judging Date and Location is Set

    We are excited to announce that Deathmash 2022 judging will take place at a private warehouse in Brighton Michigan on Saturday April 30, 2022. With that date only about 5 weeks away it means registration, entry and entry drop off dates will be starting very soon (see dates below). We are still working out the details as far as times and other logistics so we’ll let you all know as soon as we have those nailed down. In the mean time please check out the other pages here on the website for accepted styles, and registration information.

    Other Dates to know about

    • April 1st – Registration Opens
    • April 8th – Entry Drop off begins
    • April 14th – Registration Ends
    • April 17th – Entry drop off ends
    • April 30th – Competition Judging
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    Let’s Get Ready To Rumble!

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    Updated: March 8, 2022

    After a long and painful hiatus the Celebrity Deathmash that you know and love is making it’s triumphant return in March April 2022 to allow clubs to bludgeon each other with their exquisite skill and brewing prowess in the elite, no holds barred homebrew competition for supremacy and to claim the coveted Deathmash Paddle. Several homebrew clubs will pit themselves against one another but only one, yes only one will come out on top of this winner takes all Deathmash.

    Champion members from each of the homebrew clubs will brew from the five pre-determined categories attempting to formulate champion level elixirs to tantalize and win over the sophisticated pallet of the highly trained, skilled, and certified BJCP judges. All entries are painstakingly and sometimes brutally eliminated until only the best of the best remain to move on to the final Best of Show battle to the death where one single fermented libation will come out as the ultimate winner of the Celebrity Deathmash!

    Seriously though we will be providing more information and updates in the following weeks with the exact dates, times and locations as soon as we nail everything down. So please stay tuned in and get your brew kettles fired up because this will be an epic battle!

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    And the Winners are…

    Congratulations to the Motor City Mashers on winning possession of the Competition Mash Paddle for another year.

    Overall Best-Of-Show
    Mike Neville (5D – German Pils) 3 (M)

    American (21 entries)
    1st – Mike Neville (1B – American Lager) 4 (M)
    2nd – Daniel Kukuk (1C – Cream Ale) 2 (M)
    3rd – Keith Manchester (1C – Cream Ale) 1 (C)


    Belgian (18 entries)
    1 st – Charles Wolfe (25B – Saison) 4 (S)
    2nd – Steve Simison (25A – Belgian Blond Ale) 2 (M)
    3rd – Matthew Harris (26B – Belgian Dubbel) 1 (S)


    British(ish) (14 entries)
    1 st – Duke Turner (12B – Australian Sparkling Ale) 4 (K)
    2nd – Matt Williams (15A – Irish Red Ale) 2 (M)
    3rd – Danyal Cetin (14B – Scottish Heavy) 1 (S)


    German (14 entries)
    1st – Mike Neville (5D – German Pils) 4 (M)
    2nd – Daniel Kukuk (8B – Schwarzbier) 2 (M)
    3rd – Michael Myers (10A – Weissbier) 1 (C)


    The Brewnited Nations (16 entries)
    1st – Tim Gray (32A – Classic Style Smoked Beer) 4 (M)
    2nd – Jared Aumen (32B – Specialty Smoked Beer) 2 (A)
    3rd – Melissa Edmunds (32A – Classic Style Smoked Beer) 1 (A)

    TOTAL ENTRIES = 83

    CLUB POINT TOTALS

    • MOTOR CITY MASHERS (M) – 23
    • SONS OF LIBERTY (S) – 6
    • KGB (K) – 4
    • ANN ARBOR BREWERS GUILD (A) – 3
    • CRAFT (C) – 2

    Congratulations to Mike Neville of Motor City Mashers who took home the FastFerment and who will brew his Best of Show recipe at Brewery Becker.

    Thank you to Adventures in Homebewing, Brewing World, Cap ‘N’ Cork, Wine Barrel Plus and Cadillac Straits for Serving as drop off sites

    Additional thanks to…

    Supernatural Brewing and Spirits for providing the judging venue.

    Wine Barrel Plus & Adventures in Home Brewing for providing donating the medal winner’s prizes.

    Wine Barrel Plus & Brewery Becker for providing the Best Of Show prizes.

    Lastly Thanks to…

    Everyone who entered, organized, stewarded and judged in this year’s competition.

    Please visit our Competition Results page for previous year results

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    Sponsor: Wine Barrel Plus

    We would like to thank Wine Barrel Plus for not only allowing for the drop off of competition entries but also the donation of 5 German beer steins and a FastFerment fermentation system as prizes for winners of each category and best of show. This is Wine Barrel Plus’s second year sponsoring this club competition and we truly appreciate their support of not only our clubs but of the whole homebrewing community.

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    Sponsor: Adventures in Homebrewing

    Celebrity Deathmash would like to thank Adventures in Homebrewing in both Taylor and Ann Arbor for not only allowing drop off of entries for the competition but also the prize donations including gift cards, bottle openers, Guinness sign, hop shots, hop candies and a beer ingredient themed shirt. As alway we appreciate their support of our competition and encourage our competitors to visit and tell them thanks.

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    You can do this!

    There’s only a few days left to get your homebrew registered for Deathmash 2020 so make sure you have your bottles and cans, yes cans, ready to go!

    This year the Celebrity Deathmash Competition will be accepting canned entries. They must be no larger than 12 ounces and be unmarked just like the bottle entries. We hope this will allow a few more of you to enter the competition that have moved on from bottling your homebrew.

    Remember the last day to enter is Friday, February 14th so make sure you’re ready to rumble in Deathmash 2020.