Southern California Regional Homebrew Championship
Entries
Entry Registration
Account Registration
Judge Registration
Steward Registration
Entry Drop-Off
Entry Shipping
Rules
If you are willing to judge or steward, please return to register on or after Friday, June 6, 2025 10:00 AM, PDT.
This competition is AHA sanctioned and open to any amateur homebrewer age 21 or older.
All mailed entries must be received at the mailing location by the shipping deadline - please allow for shipping time.
All entries will be picked up from drop-off locations the day of the drop-off deadline.
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.).
No entries containing THC will be permitted in the competition. Any entries submitted with this ingredient will not be judged, nor will they be returned to the entrant.
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. No refunds will be provided for entries not received.
The competition organizers reserve the right to combine styles for judging and to restructure awards as needed depending upon the quantity and quality of entries.
Qualified judging of all entries is the primary goal of our event. Judges will evaluate and score each entry.
Brewers are not limited to one entry in each category but may only enter each subcategory once.
The competition committee reserves the right to combine overall style 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.
The Best of Show judging will be determined by a Best of Show panel based on a second judging of the top winners.
Bottles will not be returned to entrants.
Entry Acceptance Rules
Each entry will consist of capped or corked bottles that are void of all identifying information, including labels and embossing. Solid color caps are required. Any writing on caps must be completely covered. Plain unmarked cans minimum of 12oz are also accepted.
12oz brown glass bottles are preferred. Swing top bottles or bomber sized (22oz) bottles will not be accepted - check in staff will consume these entries, without judging. Smaller sized bottles (minimum of 6 oz) are acceptable for mead entries.
Bottles/cans will not be returned to contest entrants.
The only paperwork that must be submitted with each entry are the labels. We do not need any recipes or your paypal receipts. Entry labels should be attached to bottles using rubber bands. Do not tape or glue your labels on the bottles.
Be careful and meticulous about noting any special ingredients that must be specified for certain styles. Failure to note such ingredients or including extra information may impact the judges' scoring of your entry.
Entry Info
Pay Entry Fees
After creating your account and adding your entries to the system, you must pay your entry fee(s). Accepted payment methods are:
- Credit/debit card and e-check, via PayPal
BJCP 2015 / 2021 Styles Accepted
Indicates that the style's entry limit has been reached and no more entries of that style will be accepted.
| 1A American Light Lager | 1B American Lager | 1C Cream Ale |
| 1D American Wheat Beer | 2A International Pale Lager | 2B International Amber Lager |
| 2C International Dark Lager | 3A Czech Pale Lager | 3B Czech Premium Pale Lager |
| 3C Czech Amber Lager | 3D Czech Dark Lager | 4A Munich Helles |
| 4B Festbier | 4C Helles Bock | 5A German Leichtbier |
| 5B Kölsch | 5C German Helles Exportbier | 5D German Pils |
| 6A Märzen | 6B Rauchbier | 6C Dunkels Bock |
| 7A Vienna Lager | 7B Altbier | 8A Munich Dunkel |
| 8B Schwarzbier | 9A Doppelbock | 9B Eisbock |
| 9C Baltic Porter | 10A Weissbier | 10B Dunkels Weissbier |
| 10C Weizenbock | 11A Ordinary Bitter | 11B Best Bitter |
| 11C Strong Bitter | 12A British Golden Ale | 12B Australian Sparkling Ale |
| 12C English IPA | 13A Dark Mild | 13B British Brown Ale |
| 13C English Porter | 14A Scottish Light | 14B Scottish Heavy |
| 14C Scottish Export | 15A Irish Red Ale | 15B Irish Stout |
| 15C Irish Extra Stout | 16A Sweet Stout | 16B Oatmeal Stout |
| 16C Tropical Stout | 16D Foreign Extra Stout | 17A British Strong Ale |
| 17A1 Burton Ale | 17B Old Ale | 17C Wee Heavy |
| 17D English Barley Wine | 18A Blonde Ale | 18B American Pale Ale |
| 19A American Amber Ale | 19B California Common | 19C American Brown Ale |
| 20A American Porter | 20B American Stout | 20C Imperial Stout |
| 21A American IPA | 21B Specialty IPA | 21B1 Belgian IPA |
| 21B2 Black IPA | 21B3 Brown IPA | 21B4 Red IPA |
| 21B5 Rye IPA | 21B6 White IPA | 21B7 Brut IPA |
| 21C Hazy IPA | 22A Double IPA | 22B American Strong Ale |
| 22C American Barleywine | 22D Wheatwine | 23A Berliner Weisse |
| 23B Flanders Red Ale | 23C Oud Bruin | 23D Lambic |
| 23E Gueuze | 23F Fruit Lambic | 23G Gose |
| 24A Witbier | 24B Belgian Pale Ale | 24C Bière de Garde |
| 25A Belgian Blond Ale | 25B Saison | 25C Belgian Golden Strong Ale |
| 26A Belgian Single | 26B Belgian Dubbel | 26C Belgian Tripel |
| 26D Belgian Dark Strong Ale | 27A Historical Beer | 27A1 Kellerbier |
| 27A2 Kentucky Common | 27A3 Lichtenhainer | 27A4 London Brown Ale |
| 27A5 Piwo Grodziskie | 27A6 Pre-Prohibition Lager | 27A7 Pre-Prohibition Porter |
| 27A8 Roggenbier | 27A9 Sahti | 28A Brett Beer |
| 28B Mixed Fermentation Sour Beer | 28C Wild Specialty Beer | 28D Straight Sour Beer |
| 29A Fruit Beer | 29B Fruit and Spice Beer | 29C Specialty Fruit Beer |
| 29D Grape Ale | 30A Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer | 30B Autumn Seasonal Beer |
| 30C Winter Seasonal Beer | 30D Specialty Spice Beer | 31A Alternative Grain Beer |
| 31B Alternative Sugar Beer | 32A Classic Style Smoked Beer | 32B Specialty Smoked Beer |
| 33A Wood-Aged Beer | 33B Specialty Wood-Aged Beer | 34A Commercial Specialty Beer |
| 34B Mixed-Style Beer | 34C Experimental Beer | LSX1 Dorada Pampeana |
| LSX2 IPA Argenta | LSX3 Italian Grape Ale | LSX4 Catharina Sour |
| LSX5 New Zealand Pilsner | C1A New World Cider | C1B English Cider |
| C1C French Cider | C1D New World Perry | C1E Traditional Perry |
| C2A New England Cider | C2B Cider with Other Fruit | C2C Applewine |
| C2D Ice Cider | C2E Cider with Herbs/Spices | C2F Specialty Cider/Perry |
| M1A Dry Mead | M1B Semi-Sweet Mead | M1C Sweet Mead |
| M2A Cyser | 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 |
Shipping Info
Entry bottles accepted at our shipping location Tuesday, July 28, 2026 10:00 AM, PDT — Sunday, August 16, 2026 4:00 PM, PDT.
Ship entries to:
MoreBeer!
1506 Columbia Ave. Suite 12 Riverside, CA 92507
Packing and Shipping
Carefully pack your entries in a sturdy box. Line the inside of your carton with a plastic trash bag. Partition and pack each bottle with adequate packaging material. Please do not over pack!
Write clearly: Fragile. This Side Up. on the package. Please only use bubble wrap as your packing material.
Enclose each of your bottle labels in a small zip-top bag before attaching to their respective bottles. This way it makes it possible for the organizer to identify specifically which entry has broken if there is damage during shipment.
Every reasonable effort will be made to contact entrants whose bottles have broken to make arrangements for sending replacement bottles.
Awards
Places will be awarded as deemed by judges of each category and may include 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place. There is no guarantee that all places will be awarded for each category.
The 1st place entry in each category will advance to the Best of Show (BOS) round with a single, overall Best of Show beer selected. There will be separate Best of Show for Cider and Mead each.
In addition to awards, additional prizes, as provided by our sponsors may be awarded to those winners present at the awards ceremony at the discretion of the competition organizers.
Awards will be available for pick up after the ceremony concludes. Awards not picked up will be mailed to participants to the address used to register. Results will be posted to the competition web site after the ceremony concludes. Score sheets will be available digitally through the competition site.
Awards Ceremony
Route 30 Brewing
11620 Sterling Ave St. C Riverside, CA 92503
Saturday, September 12, 2026 12:00 PM, PDT
Volunteers
Judges and Stewards
If you have registered, log in and then choose Edit Account from the My Account menu indicated by the icon on the top menu.
If you have not registered and are willing to be a judge or steward, please register.
Staff
If you would like to volunteer to be a competition staff member, please register or update your account to indicate that you wish to be a part of the competition staff.
Other Volunteer Info
We will need judges and stewards to assist with the competition. Light breakfast and catered lunch will be served.
Main judging will be held on August 24th, starting at 9:00 am. We will break around noon for lunch and start the second session after. More details will be sent out closer to the event.
Contact
Use the form below to contact a competition official. All fields with a star are required.