GAzBF Homebrew Competition
Brewmeister's Anonymous is pleased to announce the Great
Arizona Homebrew Competition will be held
March 12 & 13 of 2005. It is our hope and our goal that this event will lead to the greater
understanding, the greater enjoyment, and the greater quality of homebrewed beer, mead and
cider
for all who participate.
For those who are new to the idea of homebrew competitions here is a bit of what goes on. Judges are gathered that are familiar with traditional styles of beer, mead and cider. In groups of two to four, they taste all of the entries in a particular style category and determine among themselves which ones most closely represents the style. The three that represent the style the closest are give first, second and third place for that style. There are twenty-seven (27) style categories. The style categories are defined by the Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP) and can be found at www.bjcp.org. Each entry is given a score and several of the best scoring beverages from all the categories are compared to determine the Best of Show (BOS), Second, and third are all determined by the judges. The judges score sheet is returned to the brewer, it lists the judges’ evaluation and comments so you know how your product faired.
Here are the Great Arizona Homebrew Competition Guidelines
Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP) and American Homebrewers Association (AHA) rules
and
guidelines will be followed with specifications as noted here.
BJCP style guidelines will be used for all entries. Style guidelines are listed at
http://www.bjcp.org/finalstyles/2004BJCPGuidelines.pdf
To ensure anonymity of the entrants:
Beer entry bottles must be 10 to 14 ounce green or brown glass with no ink or paper
labels. Any
lettering or graphics on the cap must be completely obscured with black ink. Brown
12-ounce bottles
with silver or gold caps are encouraged. Each entry should consist of three
bottles. Mead may be
delivered in 8 - 14 oz bottles with the rest of the requirements the same. Bottles
will not be
returned to entrants.
Entries with fewer than three bottles will not be eligible for Best of Show consideration.
Entry fee is $6.00 per entry.
There is no limit to the number of
entries per entrant.
Entries are scored on a 50 point scale. To qualify for a
Bronze medal an entry must score a minimum
of 21 points. To qualify for
Silver and Gold medals, the minimum scores are 30 and 38 respectively.
Entries which have tying scores in first, second or third place will each be awarded a
medal and
will split any awarded prizes.
Competition organizers will make reasonable effort to contact entrants to correct missing
or
obviously incorrect information in entries if the errors are noticed prior to the date of
judging.
If the entrant can not be contacted prior to judging, entries which are incorrectly
entered will be
disqualified. No entry fees will be returned.
If you have questions regarding these guidelines email gregory.naff@starband.net
Greg Naff,
For printable entry forms and labels use the appropriate buttons below.
Or try this handy labeling tool; http://snafu.alfter.us/compform.html
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