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.

Thanks and Good Luck To All Who Entered the Pacific Brewers Cup!

There are 346 registered entries and 136 registered participants, judges, and stewards.

As of 11:13 PM, PDT, there are 337 received and processed entries (this number will update as entries are picked up from drop-off locations and organized for judging).

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 August 1st, when the drop-off location opens for normal business.

All mailed entries must be received at the mailing location by August 29th, AT NOON - please allow for shipping time.

All entries will be picked up from drop-off locations starting at location opening time on September 1st.

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 2021 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.

Judging Sessions

Prelim #1
Tuesday, September 9, 2025 6:00 PM, PDT

Prelim #3
Saturday, September 13, 2025 12:00 AM, PDT

Prelim #2
Monday, September 15, 2025 6:00 PM, PDT

Main Judging Session
Saturday, September 20, 2025 8:30 AM, PDT

Main Stewarding Session
Saturday, September 20, 2025 8:30 AM, PDT

Competition Officials

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

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