Thank you for your interest in the 2025 PUBS Homebrew Invitational - Old World Brew Challenge organized by Placer Ultimate Brewing Society (PUBS), Placer County, CA.

You only need to register your information once and can return to this site to enter more brews or edit the brews you've entered. You can even pay your entry fees online if you wish.

Entry Registration is Open

105 entries have been added to the system as of 8:12 PM, PDT, Thursday, April 3, 2025.

103 paid entries are in the system as of 8:12 PM, PDT, Thursday, April 3, 2025.

To add your entries into the system, please proceed through the registration process or log in if you already have an account.

Judge and Steward Registration is Open

If you have not registered and are willing to be a volunteer, please register.

If you have registered, log in and then choose Edit Account from the My Account menu indicated by the icon on the top menu.

Rules

This competition is a invitational competition, and ONLY open to amateur homebrewers age 21 or older who are active members of any Northern California, Southern Oregon and Western Nevada Homebrew Club.

IF YOU ARE OUTSIDE OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, WESTERN NEVADA OR SOUTHERN OREGON, PLEASE DON'T REGISTER AN ENTRY.

Why do we limit the competition to these regional clubs? It's not that we don't want to welcome clubs from everywhere. We just made the decision to gradually grow this competition in order to learn the logistics of running a large competition. Please feel free to reach out to us if you have any questions!

This competition will be AHA sanctioned

Each particiant will be responsible for either dropping their entries off at a designated drop-off location, or shipping their entries to the designated shipping location.

All entries must be delivered to a drop-off location, or received at the shipping location, by April 5th at 1pm

All entries will be picked up from designated drop-off locations the day of the drop-off deadline.

All entries must be handcrafted products, containing ingredients available to the general public, and made using private equipment by hobbyist brewers (i.e., no use of commercial facilities or Brew on Premises operations, supplies, etc.).

The competition organizers are not responsible for mis-categorized entries or entries that arrived damaged.

Qualified judging of all entries is the primary goal of our event. Judges will evaluate and score each entry. The average of the scores will rank each entry in its category. Each flight will have at least one BJCP judge.

The anticipated Judging Categories and their accepted subcategories are as follows:

2A International Pale Lager
2B International Amber Lager
2C International Dark Lager
3A Czech Pale Lager
3B Czech Premium Pale Lager
3C Czech Amber Lager
3D Czech Dark Lager
4A Munich Helles
4B Festbier
4C Helles Bock
5A German Leichtbier
5B Kölsch
5C German Helles Exportbier
5D German Pils
6A Märzen
6B Rauchbier
6C Dunkels Bock
7A Vienna Lager
7B Altbier
8A Munich Dunkel
8B Schwarzbier
9A Doppelbock
9B Eisbock
9C Baltic Porter
10A Weissbier
10B Dunkels Weissbier
10C Weizenbock
11A Ordinary Bitter
11B Best Bitter
11C Strong Bitter
12A British Golden Ale
12C English IPA
13A Dark Mild
13B British Brown Ale
13C English Porter
14A Scottish Light
14B Scottish Heavy
14C Scottish Export
15A Irish Red Ale
15B Irish Stout
15C Irish Extra Stout
16A Sweet Stout
16B Oatmeal Stout
16D Foreign Extra Stout
17A British Strong Ale
17B Old Ale
17C Wee Heavy
17D English Barley Wine
23A Berliner Weisse
23B Flanders Red Ale
23C Oud Bruin
23D Lambic
23E Gueuze
23F Fruit Lambic
23G Gose
24A Witbier
24B Belgian Pale Ale
24C Bière de Garde
25A Belgian Blond Ale
25B Saison
25C Belgian Golden Strong Ale
26A Belgian Single
26B Belgian Dubbel
26C Belgian Tripel
26D Belgian Dark Strong Ale
27A1 Kellerbier
27A3 Lichtenhainer
27A4 London Brown Ale
27A5 Piwo Grodziskie
27A8 Roggenbier
27A9 Sahti
LSX3 Italian Grape Ale

Brewers may enter one beer in each of the catagories listed above.

Entries must receive a minimum score of 30 in order to qualify for a medal

The competition organizers reserve the right to combine styles for judging and to restructure awards as needed depending upon the quantity and quality of entries. All possible effort will be made to combine similar styles. All brews in combined categories will be judged according to the style they were originally entered in.

The Best of Show judging will be determined by a Best of Show panel based on a second judging of the category winners.

Please visit the INFO page for complete entry rules.

Bottles and cans will not be returned to entrants.

Entry Acceptance Rules

Number of Bottles Required Per Entry: 3

Each entry will consist of 3 capped bottles, corked bottles or cans that are void of all identifying information, including labels and embossing. Printed caps are allowed, but must be blacked out completely.

12oz brown glass bottles are preferred; however, green and clear glass will be accepted. Swing top bottles will likewise be accepted as well as corked bottles and cans. Bottles or cans should be a minimum of 12 oz each, or a maximum of 22 oz.

Bottles and cans will not be returned to contest entrants.

All requisite paperwork must be submitted with each entry and can be printed directly from your profile page on this website.

Entry paperwork MUST be attached to all bottles.

Completely covering labels with clear packing tape to prevent damage or loss is recommended.

Taping labels to dry bottles before filling is highly recommended.

Folding back or "Dog-earing" the end of the tape to ease removal would be HIGHLY APPRECIATED!

Be meticulous about noting any special ingredients that must be specified. Failure to note such ingredients may impact the judges' scoring of your entry.

Please be sure to list all possible allergens!