AHA/BJCP Sanctioned Competitions

Hosting a Competition

If your club, brewery, fair, festival, or organization is thinking about putting on a homebrew competition the first step is to register the competition with the AHA/BJCP Sanctioned Competition Program, a program jointly administered by the American Homebrewers Association (AHA) and the Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP).

The AHA/BJCP Sanctioned Competition Program provides resources to ensure organizing homebrewing competitions is easier and more fun.

With established competition standards and procedures homebrewers can be assured that their beers are handled and judged in the best possible fashion, creating results that are accurate, meaningful, and educational.

Registration

Be sure to register your competition at least TWO (2) MONTHS prior to the competition in order to meet the publishing deadlines for Zymurgy magazine. Announcing the competition even earlier allows time for homebrewers to brew a beer just for your competition.

AHA/BJCP Sanctioned Competition Materials

After the competition is registered, sanctioned competition materials are sent via e-mail from the BJCP Competition Director.

• A letter describing how to use the SCP materials
• A contact list of BJCP judges in your state or multi-state region (you specify the area during the registration process)
• Mailing labels for the BJCP judge list
• Judge participant list to use for judge check-in
• Competition Evaluation form for judges and stewards
• Free entry to the AHA National Homebrew Competition
• Additional competition forms and procedural information are available at the BJCP Competition Center

Promoting the Competition

Registration also gets the competition posted in Zymurgy magazine and these online calendars: AHA Events Calendar, AHA Competition Calendar, and BJCP Competition Calendar. Now, homebrewers nationwide can easily find and enter your competition.

After the competition, the AHA publishes the best-of-show winners in Zymurgy and on HomebrewersAssociation.org, and provides one certificate for a free entry to the AHA National Homebrew Competition to award to the Best of Show (BOS) winner.

Sanctioning Fees

There is a $30 US fee for registering your competition with the AHA/BJCP Sanctioned Competition Program. This administation fee is payable by credit card through a secure PayPal account. Register a Competition.