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Rules

This competition is AHA sanctioned and open to any amateur homebrewer age 21 or older.

All mailed entries must be received at the mailing location by the shipping deadline - please allow for shipping time. Entries received after shipping deadline will not be judged and will not be returned to sender.

All entries will be picked up from drop-off locations the day of the drop-off deadline. Do not drop off entries after drop off close date or your entries will not be picked up or judged. 

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, mailed entries that are not received by the entry deadline, or entries that arrived damaged.

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.

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.

Brewers are not limited to one entry in each category but may only enter each subcategory once.

The competition committee reserves the right to combine overall style categories based on number 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 top winners.

Bottles 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.

1B American Lager1A American Light Lager1D American Wheat Beer
1C Cream Ale2B International Amber Lager2C International Dark Lager
2A International Pale Lager3C Czech Amber Lager3D Czech Dark Lager
3A Czech Pale Lager3B Czech Premium Pale Lager4B Festbier
4C Helles Bock4A Munich Helles5C German Helles Exportbier
5A German Leichtbier5D German Pils5B Kölsch
6C Dunkels Bock6A Märzen6B Rauchbier
7B Altbier7A Vienna Lager8A Munich Dunkel
8B Schwarzbier9C Baltic Porter9A Doppelbock
9B Eisbock10B Dunkels Weissbier10A Weissbier
10C Weizenbock 11B Best Bitter11A Ordinary Bitter
11C Strong Bitter12B Australian Sparkling Ale12A British Golden Ale
12C English IPA13B British Brown Ale13A Dark Mild
13C English Porter14C Scottish Export14B Scottish Heavy
14A Scottish Light15C Irish Extra Stout15A Irish Red Ale
15B Irish Stout16D Foreign Extra Stout16B Oatmeal Stout
16A Sweet Stout16C Tropical Stout17A British Strong Ale
17A1 Burton Ale17D English Barley Wine17B Old Ale
17C Wee Heavy18B American Pale Ale18A Blonde Ale
19A American Amber Ale19C American Brown Ale19B California Common
20A American Porter20B American Stout20C Imperial Stout
21A American IPA21B1 Belgian IPA 21B2 Black IPA
21B3 Brown IPA 21C Hazy IPA21B4 Red IPA
21B5 Rye IPA 21B Specialty IPA 21B6 White IPA
22C American Barleywine22B American Strong Ale22A Double IPA
22D Wheatwine23A Berliner Weisse23B Flanders Red Ale
23F Fruit Lambic 23E Gueuze23D Lambic
23C Oud Bruin24B Belgian Pale Ale24C Bière de Garde
24A Witbier25A Belgian Blond Ale25C Belgian Golden Strong Ale
25B Saison 26D Belgian Dark Strong Ale26B Belgian Dubbel
26A Belgian Single26C Belgian Tripel27A Historical Beer
27A1 Kellerbier 27A2 Kentucky Common27A3 Lichtenhainer
27A4 London Brown Ale27A5 Piwo Grodziskie27A6 Pre-Prohibition Lager
27A7 Pre-Prohibition Porter27A8 Roggenbier27A9 Sahti
28A Brett Beer 28B Mixed Fermentation Sour Beer 28C Wild Specialty Beer
29B Fruit and Spice Beer 29A Fruit Beer 29C Specialty Fruit Beer
30B Autumn Seasonal Beer 30A Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer 30C Winter Seasonal Beer
31A Alternative Grain Beer 31B Alternative Sugar Beer 32A Classic Style Smoked Beer
32B Specialty Smoked Beer 33B Specialty Wood-Aged Beer 33A Wood-Aged Beer
34A Commercial Specialty Beer 34C Experimental Beer 34B Mixed-Style Beer
C1B English Cider C1C French Cider C1A New World Cider
C1D New World Perry C1E Traditional Perry C2C Applewine
C2E Cider with Herbs/Spices C2B Cider with Other Fruit C2D Ice Cider
C2A New England Cider C2F Specialty Cider/Perry M1A Dry Mead
M1B Semi-Sweet Mead M1C Sweet Mead M2C Berry Mead
M2A Cyser M2E Melomel M2B Pyment
M2D Stone Fruit Mead M3A Fruit and Spice Mead M3B Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Mead
M4A Braggot M4C Experimental Mead M4B Historical Mead

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Number of Bottles Required Per Entry: 2

Judging Sessions and Dates

Prejudge at TJ's
Thursday, October 19, 2023 6:00 PM, EDT

Portuguese American Civic League
Saturday, October 21, 2023 8:30 AM, EDT

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Awards

There will be no awards ceremony open to the public.

Places will be awarded to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in each category/table.

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.

Prizes will be awarded to winners of categories and BOS up to the discretion of the organizers

Both score sheets and awards will be available in a timely fashion and will be scanned and emailed back to all participants with entries.  Results will be posted to the competition web site after the ceremony concludes.

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