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Ohio Brew Week invites you to enter your beers in this year’s
AHA-BJCP sanctioned homebrew competition taking place Saturday July
19th, 2008 at the Dairy Barn Arts Center, 8000 Dairy Lane, Athens,
Ohio 45701. The judging (not a public event) will take place between
9am and 3pm, and the awards ceremony will follow at “Boogie
on the Bricks” (free).
ONLINE ENTRIES ONLY: Only online entries are accepted
this year.
The registration utility requires Internet Explorer (sorry for this
limitation).
www.HordsOfFun.Com/hbc.rw/regwiz.aspx?w=0217061120
This link will guide you through the registration process and generate
the bottle labels for you to print out and attach rubber band to
your bottles. Please rubber band the labels onto your bottles (no
tape please!) If you lose the labels or are unable to print them
contact kleinjc40@hotmail.com
and he’ll look up the entry number and advise.
Registration deadline is June 22.
Entries (the beers and the check) must arrive between June
30 and July 13 at:
Athens Do-It-Yourself
6 Euclid Dr.
Athens, OH 45701
Ship via any shipper except USPS as, e.g., “Preserved Goods
in Glass - Fragile” or “Yeast, Samples, Glass, This
Side Up.” It is in general legal (although
shippers are ignorant of this fact, and focus entirely on restrictions
based on taxable beverages, and it’s completely pointless
to try to convince them otherwise). It is however not legal
for US Postal Service (US Mail) to ship any alcoholic beverage.
Please include your entry fee check (made to Ohio Brew Week) with
the beers.
The entry fee is $8 for the first entry, $5 for each additional
entry. Two bottles are required for each entry. ALL BEER categories
from the 2008
BJCP Style Guideline are invited to compete and will be grouped
as necessary to create competitive flights.
Medallions will be awarded to the top 3 beers in each judging group
and special prizes will be awarded to the best three beers in the
show.
The Ohio Brew Week Homebrew Competition is open only to beers brewed
by amateur brewers using homebrew equipment.
- The competition is open to homebrews only. No entries brewed
with professional assistance, on professional equipment, or at
a commercial brewery are eligible.
- The competition is be open to all beers from categories 1-23
as set out in the 2008 BJCP Style Guidelines. Entries will be
grouped into judging groups as necessary to create flights as
per the BJCP Judge Procedures Manual.
- It is the entrant’s responsibility to enter the beer in
the category where it fits best. See www.bjcp.org/2008_Guidelines.pdf
or www.bjcp.org/2008styles/catdex.html
for detailed information on styles and competition entries.
- One entry per subcategory please. (Stouts are category 13. Dry
stout is a subcategory,13A, and American Stout is another subcategory,
13C, for example.)
- Brewers must submit two 10 – 14 oz bottles of green or
brown glass for each beer entry. Caps should be blacked out or
blank and no identifying marks should be on the bottles. No PET
bottles or swing-top (“Grolsch-style”) bottles please.
- Entries must be registered by June 22 and
received at the storage location between June 30
and July 13. Entries must be disqualified if
they do not conform to these expectations or if the fee is not
included with the entries or if the entries are not registered.
Storage location is:
Athens Do-It-Yourself,
6 Euclid Dr.
Athens, OH 45701
View map: http://tinyurl.com/5x4cwb
Ship via any shipper except USPS as, e.g., “Preserved Goods
in Glass - Fragile” or “Yeast, Samples, Glass, This
Side Up.” It is in general legal (although
shippers are ignorant of this fact, and focus entirely on restrictions
based on taxable beverages, and it’s completely pointless
to try to convince them otherwise). It is however not
legal for US Postal Service (US Mail) to ship any alcoholic
beverage.
- The fee is $8 for the first beer, $5 for each additional beer.
Include a check with your shipped or dropped off beers, made to
Ohio Brew Week.
- Rubber band the labels created during registration onto your
bottles – no tape please! (If the labels failed to print
or have been lost contact Jason Klein at kleinjc40@hotmail.com
or Linda Swihart at LindaS@warrenpiece.org
and it will be easy to fix.)
- No bottles, filled or unfilled, judged or disqualified, will
be returned.
- Medallions will be awarded to the top 3 beers in each flight
and special prizes will be awarded to the top three beers in the
show. Beers must score at least 21 points (judging scale is max
50) in order to place.
- These rules may be modified at any time without notice by the
Competition Organizers.
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