OFFICIAL RULES

2007 Mountain Brewer Open
Homebrew Competition

Shipping:
BATF regulations and Federal laws allow you to ship your entries for analytical purposes. Shipping clerks usually will not know this and will sometimes return the package if informed the contents contain alcoholic beverages. If you need assistance in documenting shipping policies contact the American Homebrewers Association (allow time to receive information). The United States Postal Service does not allow shipping alcohol, therefore a private carrier (Fed-Ex or UPS) must be used.

Packing: Pack you entries well. Please refer to, "How to Pack your Beer" in Zymurgy Spring 1991 (Vol 14 No. 1).

Sanction: This competition is an AHA/BJCP sanctioned Competition.

ELIGIBILITY AND CATEGORIES

1. ELIGIBILITY:
Contestants will be considered as an individual entrant on the basis of the person's name appearing on the registration form (Brewer). The organizer, registrar, judge director and assistant registrars may enter, but steps will be taken to ensure anonymity of entries. No judge may judge a category they have entered.

2. THE "BREWERY": 
Homebrewers may not use homebrewing facilities other than their own unless brewed with the help of the owner of the homebrewing facilities. Furthermore, the Beer must be entered under the names of all brewers who helped. This is a homebrew contest, beers brewed in commercially licensed facilities or brew-on-premises, whether for commercial research or production or any other purposes are ineligible.

3. ENTRY LIMITATIONS: 
Contestants are limited to one entry in any one sub-category. The same brewer's or co-brewers name can not appear on more than one beer entered into a subcategory. For example, if John Smith enters a barley wine he can not have another barley wine entry even if the second entry has Sue Jones as a co-brewer. In the event that an entrant violates this rule all the entries with that brewer's name associated with them in the subcategory will be disqualified.

4. ENTRANT'S RESPONSIBILITIES: 
It is the sole responsibility of the entrant to complete all registration and entry forms, enclosed proper entry fees, and designate the proper category and subcategory in which they want their entry to be judged. Under no circumstances will the registrar or judges reclassify an entry.  The Homebrew Competition Wizard will help guide entrants to the best category/sub-category for thier entry.

5. CLASSIFICATION OF CATEGORIES: 
Entries will be judged in categories and subcategories listed in the Beer Style Descriptions from the 2004 Beer Judge Certification Program Style Guidelines and entries will be referred to by category NUMBER and subcategory LETTER. Judges will be provided pertanint information about the entry, but will not be given the identity of the brewer.  Judging is to be annonomious.  Beers will be judged in the category and subcategory listed on the entry form by the entrant.  The Homebrew Competition Wizard will help guide entrants to the correct categories.

HOW TO ENTER, WHAT TO ENTER

1. Entry Fees: $5.00 for each for each entry. Make checks payable to "Greater Huntington Homebrewers Association" or "GHHA".

2. Two bottles of each beer are required per entry.

3. Bottle Entry Requirements: Bottles must be at least 12 ounces.  Brown or green long neck bottles are prefered.  Bottles must be clean and free of any labels (inked, paper, or otherwise) or any other identifying marks.  Soft drink or other printed crown caps are acceptable. However, they need to be blackened out with a black marking pen to assure anonymity in all judging situations.

4. Recipe Requirement: Recipes are not required to enter, however the GHHA reserves the right request a recipe for posting on our website. Entrants will receive all due credit.

5. Information and fees Requirement: All entrants need to provide entry fees, names of competitor, address, phone number, and category/subcategory entered. All entries become the property of GHHA and will not be returned whether received late or otherwise.

6. Forms: All entries need to be registered on-line using the Homebrew Competition Wizard MBO Entry.  The Competition Wizard guide you through the registration process and provide all necessary forms and labels.

7. Disqualification: Beers will be disqualified for eligibility or entry requirement infractions. Entry fee will not be returned.

JUDGING

1. Judging will take place on Saturday, July 28^th, 2007

2. First flight of judging will begin at 11:00 AM

3. Second flight of beer of judging will begin at 2:30 PM

4. Best of Show judging will follow the completion of the first and second round.  Judges for the Best of Show round are reserved for members of the Beer Judge Certification Program. Special Guest judges may be appointed by the MBO committee. 

 
AWARDS AND PRIZES

First, second, and third place in each category will receive a gold, silver, or bronze medallion.  Best-of-Show Prizes will be award for both the Beer and Mead/Ciders categories.  

The MBO Prize/Awards Committee is soliciting addition prizes from our sponsors.  Donated prizes will be awarded top three beers in the individual categories.  

CATEGORIES

We will be using the 2004 guidelines from the Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP). Just use the BJCP Category and subcategory number on the entry form and bottle labels.

Official 2004 BJCP Style Guidelines

Beer entrees will be a assigned a judging flight based on the entered category.  Depending on the number of entries, categories and/or sub-categories maybe combined into a single flight.  Each beer will be judged according to the style guideline for the category it was entered.  The final flight selections will be the determined by the MBO Committee

COMPETITION ORGANIZER

If you have any questions contact David Zalewski at djzalewski@verizon.net (606-921-6357).