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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.

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BJCP 2021 Judging Styles

If a style's name is hyperlinked, it has specific entry requirements. Select or tap on the name to view the subcategory's requirements.

2A International Pale Lager2B International Amber Lager2C International Dark Lager
3A Czech Pale Lager3B Czech Premium Pale Lager3C Czech Amber Lager
3D Czech Dark Lager4A Munich Helles4B Festbier
4C Helles Bock5A German Leichtbier5B Kölsch
5C German Helles Exportbier5D German Pils6A Märzen
6B Rauchbier6C Dunkels Bock7A Vienna Lager
7B Altbier8A Munich Dunkel8B Schwarzbier
9A Doppelbock 9B Eisbock9C Baltic Porter
10A Weissbier10B Dunkels Weissbier10C Weizenbock
11A Ordinary Bitter11B Best Bitter11C Strong Bitter
12A British Golden Ale12C English IPA13A Dark Mild
13B British Brown Ale13C English Porter14A Scottish Light
14B Scottish Heavy14C Scottish Export15A Irish Red Ale
15B Irish Stout15C Irish Extra Stout16A Sweet Stout
16B Oatmeal Stout16D Foreign Extra Stout17A British Strong Ale
17B Old Ale17C Wee Heavy17D English Barley Wine
23A Berliner Weisse23B Flanders Red Ale23C Oud Bruin
23D Lambic23E Gueuze23F Fruit Lambic
23G Gose24A Witbier24B Belgian Pale Ale
24C Bière de Garde 25A Belgian Blond Ale25B Saison
25C Belgian Golden Strong Ale26A Belgian Single26B Belgian Dubbel
26C Belgian Tripel26D Belgian Dark Strong Ale27A1 Kellerbier
27A3 Lichtenhainer27A4 London Brown Ale27A5 Piwo Grodziskie
27A8 Roggenbier27A9 SahtiLSX3 Italian Grape Ale

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Number of Bottles Required Per Entry: 3

Judging Sessions

Pickup and Sort Beers
Saturday, April 5, 2025 1:00 PM, PDT

Set Up Judging Areas
Saturday, April 12, 2025 7:00 AM, PDT

Cellar Master
Saturday, April 12, 2025 8:00 AM, PDT

Food Preparation and Serving
Saturday, April 12, 2025 8:30 AM, PDT

Judge and Steward Check-In
Saturday, April 12, 2025 8:30 AM, PDT

Session #1
Saturday, April 12, 2025 9:00 AM, PDT through Saturday, April 12, 2025 1:30 PM, PDT
3111 Lincoln Newcastle Hwy, Lincoln, CA 95648

Session #2
Saturday, April 12, 2025 1:00 PM, PDT through Saturday, April 12, 2025 4:00 PM, PDT
3111 Lincoln Newcastle Hwy, Lincoln, CA 95648

MBOS
Saturday, April 12, 2025 3:00 PM, PDT

BOS
Saturday, April 12, 2025 4:15 PM, PDT through Saturday, April 12, 2025 5:00 PM, PDT
3111 Lincoln Newcastle Hwy, Lincoln, CA 95648

Clean Up
Saturday, April 12, 2025 5:00 PM, PDT

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Best of Show

Best of Show prize: To Be Announced...

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Awards

Our Awards Ceremony will be held at Fowler Ranch Farm Brewery in Linlcon, CA on Thursday April 17, 2025 @ 6:30pm.

All entrants are invited!!

Places will be awarded to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in each category, or grouped categories. A beer must score at least a 30 to qualify for an award.

The 1st place entry in each category will advance to the Best of Show (BOS) round with a single, overall Best of Show beer selected.

Additional prizes may be awarded to those winners present at the awards ceremony at the discretion of the competition organizers.

Results will be posted to the competition web site after the ceremony concludes. Score sheets will be available for download at this time also. Access your score sheets by logging into your account on the competition web site.

Medals not picked at the ceremony will be mailed to participants.

Cheers and good luck!

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Awards Ceremony

Fowler Ranch Farm Brewery
3111 Lincoln Newcastle Hwy, Lincoln, CA 95648
Thursday, April 17, 2025 6:30 PM, PDT

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