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The Competition at a Glance:
The 16th annual Green Mountain Homebrew competition will be held on Saturday, May 5th, 2007 at the Knights of Columbus Hall in South Burlington, VT. This competition is sanctioned by both the AHA and the BJCP. We are part of the New England Homebrewer of the Year series of competitions.You can find out more at their website: http://mail.symuli.com/NEHBOTY.
You can also get more details about this competition at the Mashers website http://www.mashers.org.
This event is closed to the public until the Best of Show judging starts later in the afternoon.
We do our best to run a top notch competition. Brewers will receive the judge’s scoresheets with scores and comments about their brews. Ribbons will be awarded for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places for beers scoring above 21 points in their categories.
Beer style information can be found at http://www.bjcp.org.
An award and ribbon will be presented to the Vermont brewer who receives the most points.
A ribbon will be awarded to the Best-of-Show beer.
Greg Noonan of the Vermont Pub & Brewery will choose one beer during the Best of Show judging that will be brewed at his establishment. A Brewer’s Cup at the Pub will have the brewer’s name inscribed on it for all to see. Its one more good reason to bring the family up to Vermont.
Competition rules and Entry Information:
1. Beers will be grouped for judging by the 23 beer and 5 cider and mead categories specified in the BJCP 2004 Style Guidelines. Detailed BJCP guidelines may be obtained at http://www.bjcp.org
2. Any amateur may enter. All entries must be brewed at home, not in a commercial establishment. There is no limit on entries per category.
3. The fee is $6.00 per entry. Payment must be made by check payable to the Green Mountain Mashers.
4. Brewers must submit 2 or 3 10 ounce or larger bottles for each beer entry; but brewers submitting two bottles do so at their own risk, since there might not be a bottle available to advance to the Best-of-Show round. Caps should be blacked out or blank. PET bottles with carbonator caps are allowed.
5. Ciders and meads do not advance to the Best-of-Show round so brewers may submit 2 10 ounce or larger bottles or one 22 ounce bottle.
6. The deadline for entries is April 27, 2007. Entries will be accepted later only with the prior approval of the organizers and with submission of completed competition entry forms before the deadline.
7. Bottle labels must be attached to each bottle with a rubber band-no tape. Bottle labels must include a list of special ingredients in categories that utilize such.
8. The organizers reserve the right to ask for recipes after the competition.
9. Self-addressed stamped envelopes are not required. However, if you care to enclose some stamps and an address label we would appreciate it. The competition is usually a break even event.
10. Bottles, filled or unfilled, will not be returned.
11. Ribbons will be awarded to all brews placing first, second, and third in each of the 28 categories in the guidelines, even if some categories are collapsed for judging purposes. Prizes will not be awarded to a brew scoring less than 21 points out of the maximum 50. Best-of-Show will receive a separate ribbon. A beer will be selected for the Brewer’s Cup and will be brewed at the Vermont Pub & Brewery.
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