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

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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 Friday, 8/31, when the drop-off location opens for normal business.

All mailed entries must received at the mailing location by Saturday, 9/15 AT NOON - please allow for shipping time.

All entries will be picked up from drop-off locations starting at location opening time on Saturday, 9/15.

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:

21B	Specialty IPA
23F	Fruit Lambic
27	Historical Beer
28A	Brett Beer
28B	Mixed Fermentation Sour Beer
28C	Soured Fruit Beer
29A	Fruit Beer
29B	Fruit and Spice Beer
29C	Speciality Fruit Beer
30A	Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer
31A	Alternative Grain Beer
31B	Alternative Sugar Beer
32B	Specialty Smoked Beer
33A	Wood-Aged Beer
33B	Specialty Wood-Aged Beer
34A	Clone Beer
34B	Mixed-Style Beer
34C	Experimental Beer
M2B	Pyment
M2C	Berry Mead
M2D	Stone Fruit Mead
M2E	Melomel
M3A	Fruit and Spice Mead
M3B	Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Mead
M4A	Braggot
M4B	Historical Mead
M4C	Experimental Mead
C2B	Cider with Other Fruit
C2E	Cider with Herbs/Spices
C2F	Specialty Cider/Perry

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.