
Thank you for your interest in the The Brew Hut's Annual Homebrew Competition organized by The Brew Hut, Aurora, CO. OK, I'm ready to register.The Brew Hut's Annual Homebrew Competition The fee for registering an AHA/BJCP sanctioned competition is $35.
AMERICAN HOMEBREW ASSOCIATION COMPETITION REGISTRATION
How much does competition registration cost? mid-September for the November/December issue). Bear in mind that the Zymurgy calendar deadline usually falls a month-and-a-half before each issue (e.g. When do I apply for AHA/BJCP Sanctioning?Īpplications should be received at least TWO (2) MONTHS, and preferably several months, before judging commences. The AHA publishes best-of-show winners in Zymurgy. Registering with the AHA/BJCP Sanctioned Competition Program helps you find judges and ensure that your judges get points for judging.Ĭompetition information for all sanctioned competitions is published in Zymurgy magazine and online in the BJCP Competition Schedule and the AHA's Homebrewing Calendar. What are the benefits of registering a competition with the AHA/BJCP Sanctioned Competition Program? To reduce hassles and time-consuming mistakes To maintain valid standards of judging and achievable levels of excellence To help recruit quality judges and ensure they are awarded judging points To provide the best educational resource available for competition staff and entrants

Judge list for your region (emailed to you by the BJCP) To provide the forum for judges to practice the art of beer evaluation.ĪHA/BJCP Sanctioned Competition Program materials include: The BJCP supplies lists of area BJCP judges for sanctioned competitions and awards judging points for judges participating in AHA/BJCP Sanctioned Competitions. AHA/BJCP Sanctioned Competitions are organized with a foundation of guidelines, judges, and a standardized scoring system. To bring consistency to homebrew competitions. To give entrants valuable feedback on the attributes of their beer as perceived by the most qualified judges available. To make organizing homebrew competitions easier and more rewarding. To help promote homebrewing and homebrew competitions. The primary goals of the AHA/BJCP Sanctioned Competition Program are: In addition, the Sanctioned Competition Program establishes competition standards and procedures that assure homebrewers that their beers are handled and judged in the best possible fashion, and that the results are accurate, meaningful, and educational. The AHA/BJCP Sanctioned Competition Program is designed to help make organizing homebrewing competitions easy and fun. Provide an improved means of promoting and marketing ALL competitions Provide a uniform set of competition score sheets and forms


Reduce confusion caused by having two separate competition registration systems The competition materials have been updated to incorporate aspects of both programs to provide competition organizers with the best information and forms available to run successful competitions. In merging the competition programs, we have combined the best of both. The American Homebrewers Association (AHA) and the Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP) are pleased to announce that the AHA and the BJCP have merged our competition programs, so as of January 2006, there is a single system for registering homebrew competitions. AHA/BJCP Sanctioned Competition Program (SCP)
