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I am pleased to announce the style categories for the 2011 Maryland Microbrewery Festival Homebrew Competition, which will be held on Saturday, September 24, 2011:

LIGHT LAGERS:

1A. Lite American Lager
1B. Standard American Lager
1C. Premium American Lager
1D. Munich Helles
1E. Dortmunder Export

EUROPEAN AMBER LAGER

3A. Vienna Lager
3B. Oktoberfest/Märzen

BOCK

5A. Maibock/Helles Bock
5B. Traditional Bock
5C. Doppelbock
5D. Eisbock

American & German Wheat Beers:

6D. American Wheat or Rye Beer
15A. Weizen/Weissbier
15B. Dunkelweizen
15C. Weizenbock
15D. Roggenbier (German Rye Beer)

BELGIAN AND FRENCH ALE

16A. Witbier
16B. Belgian Pale Ale
16C. Saison
16D. Bière de Garde
16E. Belgian Specialty Ale

STRONG ALE

19A. Old Ale
19B. English Barleywine
19C. American Barleywine

20. FRUIT BEER

THE COMPETITION:

The Maryland Microbrewery Festival is an annual event held at the Union Mills Homestead in...Union Mills (Carroll County), Maryland.  It features the best of Maryland Microbrews.  Consistent with this theme, a few years ago the festival organizers asked the Midnight Homebrewers' League to conduct a homebrew competition during the festival, to feature the best of Maryland homebrews.  This BJCP-sanctioned homebrew competition is thus only open to Maryland residents, or members of a Maryland homebrew club (including but not limited to any member club of the Free State Homebrew Club Guild).

The Best of Show winner gets to have his or her recipe commercially brewed by Dog Brewing Company of Westminster, Maryland, for commercial bottled sales in area liquor stores as well as draft sales at Buffalo Wild Wings restaurants throughout Maryland.

The entry period for this year's competition will be August 20 - September 3.  Complete Rules will be posted shortly. Until then, please visit our Competition Page:

http://home.comcast.net/~midnighthomebrewers/2011_competition1.htm

Cheers!