Pacific Brewers Cup

Thank you for your interest in the Pacific Brewers Cup organized by Strand Brewers Club, Torrance, CA.

You only need to register your information once and can return to this site to enter more brews or edit the brews you've entered. You can even pay your entry fees online if you wish.

If you are willing to judge or steward, please return to register on or after Sunday, June 1, 2025 12:00 AM, PDT.

Rules

This competition is AHA sanctioned and open to anyone age 21 or older. An entrant is the one or more people submitting an entry. Member(s) of an entrant must have actively contributed to brewing, fermenting, and bottling an entry. An entrant may not be an entire brew club. Competition staff, judges and stewards are permitted to be entrants. Professional Brewers are permitted to be entrants as long as the entry was not brewed on commercial equipment

All entries must be handcrafted products, containing ingredients available to the general public, and made using private equipment by hobbyist brewers (i.e., no use of commercial facilities or Brew on Premises operations, supplies, etc.).

The preferred entry drop off window begins TBD, when the drop-off location opens for normal business.

All mailed entries must received at the mailing location by TBD AT NOON - please allow for shipping time.

All entries will be picked up from drop-off locations starting at location opening time on TBD.

The competition organizers are not responsible for mis-categorized entries, mailed entries that are not received by the entry deadline, or entries that arrived damaged.

All entries become the property of the Strand Brewers Club and used or unused bottles will not be returned.

Qualified judging of all entries is the primary goal of our event. A panel of at least two judges will judge each entry according to the sub-category in which it was entered. Queued Judging will be employed for large flight, with a mini-BOS round. Each flight will have at least one BJCP ranked judge. No judge will be assigned to a category for which they are entrants

Judging will be based on the 2015 BJCP Guidelines http://bjcp.org/stylecenter.php

The competition committee reserves the right to combine categories based on number of entries. All possible effort will be made to combine similar styles. All brews in combined categories will be judged according to the style they were originally entered in.

Brewers are not limited to one entry in each category but may only enter each subcategory once. For example, participants may enter a Belgian Pale (16B) and Belgian Saison (16C), but may not enter two Saisons, even if they are different brews, with the following styles having exception to this rule:

In these styles, more than one entry per brewer is permitted if the base beer/mead/cider and/or fruit/spice/herb/special ingredients are sufficiently different such that the overall impression of each entry is distinct. For example, submission of both a mint chocolate stout and a mint chocolate porter is NOT allowed in the same style sub-category, since the overall impression is too similar. As another example, a peach melomel and nectarine melomel would NOT be allowed. However, an entrant is allowed, for example, to enter say a Mixed Fermentation Sour based on a light pale and wheat malts with peaches (a la New Belgium Eric's Ale) and a Mixed Fermentation Sour based on a strong brown ale with raisins and cherries (a la Cuvee de Tomme) together in the same category. As another example, a Chardonnay Pyment and a Zinfandel Pyment would be allowed from the same entrant. The competition organizers reserve the right to review all entry descriptions and contact the entrant and ask them to choose one only if they are deemed too similar.

Entry Acceptance Rules

Number of Bottles Required Per Entry: 3

Each entry will consist of three (3) bottles or cans each holding 10 to 17 ounces that are capped with standard crown caps or corked and are void of all identifying information, including labels and embossing. Printed caps are allowed, but must be blacked out completely. For mead or entries above 10% ABV, bottles holding at least 6 oz are acceptable.

12oz brown glass bottles are preferred; however, green and clear glass will be accepted. Silver cans are accepted. Corked bottles will be accepted for appropriate styles.

Bottles will not be returned to contest entrants.

Entry forms should be attached to bottles or cans with a rubber band only; glue and/or tape are unacceptable.

Please fill out the entry forms completely. Be meticulous about noting any special ingredients that must be specified. Failure to note such ingredients may impact the judges' scoring of your entry.

If shipping entries, please ship to South Bay Brewing Supply and use FedEx, UPS, or another private carrier - IT IS ILLEGAL TO SHIP ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES VIA THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE. Please Read https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/attachments/0000/6353/How_to_Pack_Your_Beer.pdf for advice on how to pack your beer. Do NOT use packing peanuts, confetti, or any other messy/annoying cushioning - use bubble wrap or newspaper. There is also no need to use any tape inside the package - Do NOT tape the bubble wrap around each bottle, simply wrap it. Important thing is to make sure there is adequate cushioning on all sides of the bottles and that they cannot shift around at all. If unsure, buy a bottle shipper meant for shipping beer bottles, with foam or cardboard inserts. It is also a good idea to put each bottle in a zip-lock bag so if ones breaks it does not contaminate the rest of the package.

Competition Officials

You can send an email to any of the following individuals via Contact.

• Joshua Avery — Data Master, Master Of The Data
• Ryan Erato — Cellar Master
• Jeff Hoy — Awards Coordinator
• Jeff Hoy — Competition Organizer
• Christy Hoy — Head Steward
• Ryan Penrod — Judge Coordinator
• Ryan Penrod — Judge Director
• Chris Remensperger — Tech Head
• Michael Rivera — Sponsorship Coordinator