Granite City Homebrew Contest

I received and email this morning from Granite City inviting our club to participate in the first annual Granite City Homebrew contest so I thought everyone should know. The winner gets their beer brewed and served at all the Granite City locations in the area. I commend them for doing this. Here are the details. Contest info

The Details

* WHAT: A regional BJCP registered Homebrew competition where you don't have to go to the effort of packing and shipping your beer. Simply register online, then drop 2 bottles of your beer off at any Granite City Food and Brewery location, along with the entry fee and we will take care of shipping for you.

* WHEN: Entries should be registered online, then dropped off at any Granite City Food & Brewery location between the dates of April 11th and April 25th. We will then transport entries back to the judging location in Des Moines, Iowa.

* COST: $3 per entry

* PRIZES: Winner of "Best of Show" will have their beer brewed as our summer seasonal beer. Category winners will each receive one $50 Granite City Food & Brewery gift certificate per month for 12 months. 2nd and 3rd place in each category will receive a commerative award recognizing their achievement.

* WHO'S RUNNING THE COMPETITION: The competition is being hosted by Granite City Food and Brewery. We will be assisted in judging by the Iowa Brewers Union, and the Ames Brewers League. Anyone interested in Judging should contact Bob McKenzie at bmckenzie@gcfb.net.

Official Rules

1. ELIGIBILITY: Contestants will be considered as an individual entrant on the basis of the person's name appearing on the registration form. The organizer, registrar, judge director and assistant registrars may enter, but steps will be taken to ensure anonymity of entries. No judge may judge a category they have entered.

2. THE BREWERY: Homebrewers may not use homebrewing facilities other than their own unless brewed with the help of the owner of the homebrewing facilities. Furthermore, the Beer must be entered under the names of all brewers who helped. Beers brewed in commercially licensed facilities or brew-on-premises, whether for commercial research or production or any other purposes are ineligible.

3. ENTRY LIMITATIONS: Contestants may not submit more than one entry in any one sub-category. The same brewer's or co-brewers name can not appear on more than one beer entered into a subcategory. For example, if John Smith enters a barley wine he can not have another barley wine entry even if the second entry has Sue Jones as a co-brewer. In the event that an entrant violates this rule all the entries with that brewer's name associated with them in the subcategory will be disqualified.

4. ENTRANT'S RESPONSIBILITIES: it is the sole responsibility of the entrant to complete all registration and entry forms, enclosed proper entry fee, and designate the proper category and subcategory in which they want their entry to be judged. Under no circumstances will the registrar or judges reclassify an entry.

5. CLASSIFICATION OF CATEGORIES: Beer will be judged in categories and subcategories listed on the BJCP website. These may be viewed at www.bjcp.org. Entries will be referred to by category NUMBER and subcategory LETTER. The beers will be judged in the category and subcategory listed on the entry form by the entrant. The organizer may compress categories to ensure there are enough entries in each to category to create a fair competition.

6. RECIPES: must be included when registering, entering the competition indicates that you release your recipe to Granite City Food and Brewery. If Granite City Food and Brewery do choose to brew a beer based on your recipe you will not be eligible for payment of any type. If the Best of Show Winner is of a style which the brewers at Granite City Food and Brewery feel we cannot brew for any reason then we will choose another beer from the Best of Show Judging round. Examples of beer styles that would be unlikley to be brewed are Sour Beers, certain examples of fruit, spiced and vegetable beers, and some smoked beers. However these beers may still be entered in the competition and will not be discriminated against in any way during judging.