It would be great to see Hogtown Brewers entering in more competitions. Hopefully, these calendars will help get you interested and give you the information necessary to schedule your brewing so that your beers will be in their best condition at the right time for your selected competitions. If you are planning to enter a competition, please let us know . Then if several people are entering the same competition, we can package and ship together to lower the cost.
Starting out is a link to the BJCP for the style guidelines, entry forms, etc. Following that are some links to Competition Calendars on the Web. Check these out to find information on upcoming Homebrew Competitions. There is also info on the AHA Club-Only Competition schedule and our own Hogtown Brewers monthly competitions (which are timed to allow our winning brewers to ship their brews to the corresponding AHA Club-Only competitions). Check out the website for the MCAB (Masters Championship of Amateur Brewing, probably the most prestigious of all homebrew competitions, despite the fact that it is a very new program. Then I have given contact info for some selected competitions; mostly regional or some larger national competitions, that have caught my eye.
BJCP Homepage New Style Guidelines & Entry forms http://www.mv.com/ipusers/slack/bjcp/style-index.html Competition Calendars on the Web HomeBrew Digest Competition Calendar http://hbd.org/cgi-bin/competitions/calendar.pl American Homebrewer's Association http://www.beertown.org/cgi-bin/Cal/calgen.cgi?category=HB BJCP Competition Calendar http://www.mv.com/ipusers/slack/bjcp/compsch.html Real Beer Page Calendar http://www.realbeer.com/cgi-bin/realbeer/search/events.cgi?cat=home Nothing But Beer Page http://www.yft.com/mwtmm/beer/Homebrew_Competitions/United_States/ AHA Club-Only Competitions Ð details to be announced Early February Ð BarleyWine Late March Ð Belgian Style Lambic Mid-May Ð Weiss End of August Ð Pale Ale Mid-October Ð Best of Fest Early December Ð Historical Beers Brewer of the Year 2000 Ð BOM Style Competitions Dec. in January Ð Stouts January Ð Open (any style) February Ð Bitter March Ð German Wheats * April Ð Scottish Ales May Ð American Wheat June Ð Pale Ale * July Ð Open (any style) August Ð Vienna, Octoberfest, Vienna * September Ð Historical Beer * October ÐMead & Cider November Ð Strong Ales/Barleywines Masters Championship of Amateur Brewing MCAB homepage http://hbd.org/mcab/ Some Semi-Randomly Selected Competition Info (emphasis on local or regional contests) Greater Gator Beerfest Ð Not a contest, but hey, lots of good beerÉ March 24-26, Chuck or Ricki 407-834-1145 5th Annual Hurricane Blowoff in West Palm Beach,FL, Mar 31-Apr 1 2000, deadline 3/25/00, $6 entry fee, Contact: Dan Oliver, (561) 533-5317 (h) - (561) 686-4019 (w), olds442@gate.net http://www.fortunecity.com/littleitaly/giotto/175 Crescent city Competition & Crawfish Boil, New Orleans, April 15, entries due 3/31, $6ea Contact Andy Ð504-393-1592, honyhollis@aol.com Peach State Brew-off in Atlanta, GA, May 6 , deadline is April 30, Entry fee $7ea, $5 for 3 or more, Contact John Stegenga, bigjohns@mindspring.com http://www.geocities.com/redusc/psbo2000.html AHA National Homebrew Competition 1st Round Ð April 29, in Tallahassee hosted by NFBL Sunshine Challenge in Orlando, FL May 19 2000 - May 21 2000 Entries due April 24-May 8; Entry fee $6.00 contact Ron Bach, 407-696-2738 bachian@juno.com http://www.cfhb.org AHA National Homebrew Competition Ð Livionia, MI at AHA Natl Convention June