National Homebrew Champs Competition
The SouthYeasters Homebrew Club is proud to announce that they will be hosting this year’s National Homebrew Champs. This will be the first time that the Cape Town based brewing club will organise the event, which was previously run in Jo’burg by the Worthogs Brewing Club.
Homebrewers from around the country have the opportunity to enter their best homemade beer to stand in line of winning some amazing prizes.
If you think you’ve got what it takes to be the National Homebrew Champ 2014 then visit www.nationalhomebrew.co.za to find out more.
Online Entries close 1 October
Deadline for handing in beer 24 October
Below are the rules/guidelines:
• Homebrewers from around South Africa may enter up to two beers, but no more.
• The competition is open to any BJCP style of beer from categories 1-23. Brewers must indicate special requirement for beers (chilled/room temp before judging) For BJCP styles: www.bjcp.org/
• We require six bottles per style of beer. Bottle size needs to be either 440ml or 500ml.
• Drop off points are the homebrewer clubs and shops in East London, PE, Durban, Bloem, Pretoria, JHB and CPT. Contact details available on our website.
• Beers will be couriered to the two main judging cities, Johannesburg and Cape Town.
• From there they will be judged in a (North & South) preliminary round.
• The preliminary judging will take place 8 November.
• The top 20 entries from each preliminary round will go to the Best of Show (top 40), which is held in Cape Town 22 November
• Winners will be announced at the Cape Town Festival of Beer 28/29 Nov. capetownfestivalofbeer.co.za/
• The cost of entry is R100 for one beer and R150 for two beers.
• Preliminary and Final judging sessions will be BJCP sanctioned.
• Deadline for payment and entering online: 1 October
• Deadline for delivering beer to drop-off points: 24 October
Prizes will be announced shortly. Visit our website to find out more. www.nationalhomebrew.co.za
The National Homebrew Champs website will go live 29 August. Please check Facebook, Twitter and sign up to our newsletters at www.southyeasters.co.za/ for more information.