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Star City Open Homebrew Competion Registration Now Open

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Celebrate Craftsmanship & Community: Bring your best brew and be part of an event that celebrates passion, creativity, and skill.  All contestants will get recognition and expert feedback from Certified BJCP Judges. The Best of Show winner will have their beer brewed at Star City Brewing and featured at next year’s competition.
There are 90 beer categories you can enter, and 2 bottles are required for judging. Entry registration deadline is 3/15/2025 at 10:00om

The Awards Ceremony will be held on Saturday, March 22, 2025 2:00pm at Star City Brewing. 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. Additional prizes may be awarded to those winners present at the awards ceremony at the discretion of the competition organizers.

Rules

This competition is American Homebrewers Association (AHA) sanctioned and open to any amateur homebrewer age 21 or older.

This is a charity-benefit competition and all net proceeds will be donated to The Artemis Center of Dayton, Ohio.

All entries must be received at the drop-off/mailing location by the deadline. Hand-carried entries will only be accepted on the day of competition by out-of-town judges/stewards by prior request. Please allow adequate shipping time for any mailed entries.

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. There is a $10.00 fee per entry.

The competition committee reserves the right to combine 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. The winner of the Best of Show beer will be brewed at Star City with the winning brewer if available, at a later date to be served at the following year’s competition..

Bottles will not be returned to entrants.

Become a Fifth Street Brewpub homebrew legend!

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FSBHomebrew_LogoThe Fifth Street Brewpub’s 1st Annual Member Homebrew Competition is now accepting entries! Bring your most creative brew to FSB and compete with your fellow member-owners.

Our Brewmaster, Darren Link, started out as a homebrewer, brewing recipe after recipe to finely hone his craft. Have you brewed a great beer but haven’t had the chance to share it with a larger audience? This is your opportunity! The Best of Show winner will work with Darren to scale the recipe for brewing in FSB’s Brewhouse. The winning member will also be invited to join Darren on brew day and assist with brewing the recipe. The beer will eventually be tapped and served at an exclusive FSB release party

The competition is open to any amateur homebrewer age 21 or older who is a member of Fifth Street Brewpub. All entries must be handcrafted products, containing ingredients available to the general public, and made using private equipment by hobbyist brewers. Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP) judges will evaluate and score each entry. The average of the scores will determine the rank of each entry in its category. Each category will have at least one BJCP judge.
Style and Limitations
Due to the number of fermenters and Brite tanks and in the interest of keeping bacteria out of our brewery, please do not submit any barrel aged, wild ales (Brett, Lacto, or Pedio) or beers requiring extended aging. Only the following styles will be accepted. Refer to the BJCP style guidelines at
www.bjcp.org for a description of the beer styles.
Bottle Rules
Participating brewers can enter a maximum of two entries. Each entry will consist of two 12 to 22 ounce capped, corked, or swing top bottles that are void of all identifying information, including labels and embossing. Printed caps are allowed, but must be blacked out completely. 12oz brown glass bottles are preferred; however, green
and clear glass will be accepted.   THE DEAD LINE FOR ENTERING IS MAY 2, 2015.
THE BEST OF SHOW AWARD!
Our Brewmaster, Darren Link, will work with the Best of Show winner to scale their homebrew recipe to be brewed in Fifth Street Brewpub’s
Brewhouse. The winner will also be invited to join Darren on brew day to brew the recipe. The beer will then have a release party scheduled at a later date. Fifth Street Brewpub reserves the right to choose the beer to brew from the Best of Show table based on recipe reproduction, system constraints, or financial reasons.

 

You must be a member of Fifth Street Brewpub to enter.  If you would like to join FSB please click here.