Toronto Beer Week 2012 Home Brew Competition
Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 5:39 pm
Toronto Beer Week 2012 Home Brew Competition
NOTE: Entry deadline extended to Saturday, September 8th, 2012!
Toronto Beer Week 2012 General Information and Events Page (Sept 14th - 22nd)
Toronto Beer Week 2012 Home Brew Competition Info and Registration
The purpose of the TBW Homebrew Contest is to encourage homebrewers in the Toronto area and nearby regions of the Province to participate in Toronto Beer Week by submitting their beers for judging and having some fun along the way. TBW values the contribution that homebrewers make to the Toronto beer scene. TBW also seeks to encourage collaboration among the homebrewing community and Ontario craft brewers as some winning beers will be selected by participating breweries to be brewed up as a pilot or a production beer and served during Toronto Beer Week.
Who can enter the Contest?
The Contest for 2012 will be a regional contest. If you are a homebrewer who is over the legal drinking age and resides in Southern Ontario, you are eligible to enter the contest. [Note: For greater clarity, TBW will deem you to reside in Southern Ontario if you reside anywhere in the territories covered by MTO Southern Ontario Maps 1-11: http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/traveller/map/southindexpdf.shtml
Registration
Every homebrewer who wishes to participate in the Contest must register on the TBW Homebrew Contest Website, by following the instructions, complete the online form and pay the registration fee of $10 through the TBW Online Store. Payment of the registration fee will permit you to enter up to 4 beers for the contest. If you want to enter more, then simply pay an additional $10 fee that for each additional group of up to 4 beers. We will be tracking registration/payment and entries through your email address.
Entering Beers
Complete an on-line entry form for each beer. The entry can be submitted for a BJCP category, the 1812 Beer category (see below), or the Domesday category see below). If you collaborated with other brewers to make the beer, list their names on the entry form. Every brewer who helped make the beer should be listed. If you are entering as a Conflicted entrant (see below), please indicate this on the entry form. To provide for anonymity and to ensure that candidate beers are in the best possible condition for judging, all entries must be submitted in standard 12oz (approx) amber/brown glass tall neck bottles (free of any labels and distinguishing marks). Entries received in swing-top bottles, plastic bottles, or growlers, etc. will be disqualified.
Special Contest Entry Categories for 2012
TBW has added 2 special categories for the 2012 Contest:
1812 Era Beers
To celebrate the bicentennial of the War of 1812, TBW is inviting homebrewers to brew up their interpretation of an 1812 era beer. (We wonder if our guys stopped for a beer after burning down the White House? If so, what would that beer have been like???). You are free to show us what they might have drank by basing your brew on an authentic recipe of the era, or by using local ingredients that were available in Toronto at the time, or by simply brewing up something that is inspired by beers of that era. For some useful information to help get you started, check out: http://www.bartowel.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=7775
Domesday Beers (Imperial Everything)
So, now the media is now telling us that the Mayan calendar does not end on December 21st, – it's only a calendar change! So, what if the world did end on December 21, 2012? What would your last beer be? The only qualifier is that it must be an Imperial. Get brewing this one now!!!
Conflicted Entrants (No Prizing)
If you have an affiliation with TBW, or if you are employed by a brewery or an establishment that participates in TBW, then you must indicate that you are “Conflicted†on the entry form. This will allow your beers to be judged in the contest, and you will receive feedback from the judges, if you wish, but you will not be entitled to win a prize in the contest. Depending on the number of “Conflicted†entries that we receive, we may judge the “Conflicted†beers as a separate group, or the conflicted entries may be judged with the non-conflicted homebrewer entries. This category was added for fun and to open the contest up to homebrewers who would normally be disqualified. No prizes, just gloating privileges.
Entry Drop-Off Location
The entries must be registered online before dropping off/shipping them. The Amsterdam Brewery has kindly offered to be the official drop- off location for this year’s contest. This assures that once the beers are received, they will be placed on a skid in their cold room until judging. The Amsterdam Brewery is located at 21 Bathurst Street in Toronto and you can drop the entries off in person at their retail store. See: http://www.amsterdambeer.com/contact/contactus
For those residing outside the GTA, courier/postal shipments will be accepted by the Amsterdam Brewery, provided that all charges have been prepaid by the entrant, and that no receipt signature is requested. The entries should be well packaged and protected from breakage (i.e., use a sturdy box and line it with a plastic garbage bag and partition/wrap each bottle with sufficient protective packaging material. Please do not use styrofoam packaging peanuts). The package should be addressed to:
Toronto Beer Week Homebrew Contest
c/o Amsterdam Brewery
21 Bathurst Street
Toronto ON M5V 2N6
Deadline for Entries
To be eligible for the Contest, entries must be received by the Amsterdam Brewery retail store by 6pm on Saturday September 8th, 2012. Entries received after the deadline will be disqualified.
Judging
Contest judging sessions will take place in September 2012 as contest judges and facilities become available. Details on the final round judging session will be announced on the TBW website, once arrangements have been confirmed. The Contest is not BJCP sanctioned and will not be judged solely on BJCP criteria.
Given that contest prizes will include pro-am brewing opportunities for winning beers/brewers, the brewers from the breweries that will be awarding the prizes will have other considerations including whether the beer could be brewed at their brewery, on a production or pilot scale. A judge who has entered beers into the contest will be screened from judging activity respecting his or her entries. All decisions of judges and TBW are final. Feedback will be provided to the entrant by email, after the contest.
Prizes
Winning beers will be awarded 1st, 2nd and 3rd place for each category, or grouped category, depending on the circumstances. Beers awarded 1st, 2nd and 3rd place for each category, or grouped category will be eligible for final round judging. Prizes will be announced on the TBW Website once we are able to confirm prize information with the prize donors. Where more than one brewer is listed on the form, the prize will be awarded to the person who entered the beer.
If the prize is a pro-am brewing opportunity, transportation and accommodation costs are the responsibility of the winner. The prize winner will be expected to follow any direction received from the prize donor, including any requirements to sign waivers, wear protective equipment, or to be available at a specified date/time/location in order to participate in a pro-am brewing session, which may not be negotiable due to brewery production scheduling. TBW will post an announcement listing all of the Contest winners shortly after final judging takes place.
For full Toronto Beer Week 2012 home brew competition rules and registration, please visit http://www.brewcompetition.ca.
NOTE: Entry deadline extended to Saturday, September 8th, 2012!
Toronto Beer Week 2012 General Information and Events Page (Sept 14th - 22nd)
Toronto Beer Week 2012 Home Brew Competition Info and Registration
The purpose of the TBW Homebrew Contest is to encourage homebrewers in the Toronto area and nearby regions of the Province to participate in Toronto Beer Week by submitting their beers for judging and having some fun along the way. TBW values the contribution that homebrewers make to the Toronto beer scene. TBW also seeks to encourage collaboration among the homebrewing community and Ontario craft brewers as some winning beers will be selected by participating breweries to be brewed up as a pilot or a production beer and served during Toronto Beer Week.
Who can enter the Contest?
The Contest for 2012 will be a regional contest. If you are a homebrewer who is over the legal drinking age and resides in Southern Ontario, you are eligible to enter the contest. [Note: For greater clarity, TBW will deem you to reside in Southern Ontario if you reside anywhere in the territories covered by MTO Southern Ontario Maps 1-11: http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/traveller/map/southindexpdf.shtml
Registration
Every homebrewer who wishes to participate in the Contest must register on the TBW Homebrew Contest Website, by following the instructions, complete the online form and pay the registration fee of $10 through the TBW Online Store. Payment of the registration fee will permit you to enter up to 4 beers for the contest. If you want to enter more, then simply pay an additional $10 fee that for each additional group of up to 4 beers. We will be tracking registration/payment and entries through your email address.
Entering Beers
Complete an on-line entry form for each beer. The entry can be submitted for a BJCP category, the 1812 Beer category (see below), or the Domesday category see below). If you collaborated with other brewers to make the beer, list their names on the entry form. Every brewer who helped make the beer should be listed. If you are entering as a Conflicted entrant (see below), please indicate this on the entry form. To provide for anonymity and to ensure that candidate beers are in the best possible condition for judging, all entries must be submitted in standard 12oz (approx) amber/brown glass tall neck bottles (free of any labels and distinguishing marks). Entries received in swing-top bottles, plastic bottles, or growlers, etc. will be disqualified.
Special Contest Entry Categories for 2012
TBW has added 2 special categories for the 2012 Contest:
1812 Era Beers
To celebrate the bicentennial of the War of 1812, TBW is inviting homebrewers to brew up their interpretation of an 1812 era beer. (We wonder if our guys stopped for a beer after burning down the White House? If so, what would that beer have been like???). You are free to show us what they might have drank by basing your brew on an authentic recipe of the era, or by using local ingredients that were available in Toronto at the time, or by simply brewing up something that is inspired by beers of that era. For some useful information to help get you started, check out: http://www.bartowel.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=7775
Domesday Beers (Imperial Everything)
So, now the media is now telling us that the Mayan calendar does not end on December 21st, – it's only a calendar change! So, what if the world did end on December 21, 2012? What would your last beer be? The only qualifier is that it must be an Imperial. Get brewing this one now!!!
Conflicted Entrants (No Prizing)
If you have an affiliation with TBW, or if you are employed by a brewery or an establishment that participates in TBW, then you must indicate that you are “Conflicted†on the entry form. This will allow your beers to be judged in the contest, and you will receive feedback from the judges, if you wish, but you will not be entitled to win a prize in the contest. Depending on the number of “Conflicted†entries that we receive, we may judge the “Conflicted†beers as a separate group, or the conflicted entries may be judged with the non-conflicted homebrewer entries. This category was added for fun and to open the contest up to homebrewers who would normally be disqualified. No prizes, just gloating privileges.
Entry Drop-Off Location
The entries must be registered online before dropping off/shipping them. The Amsterdam Brewery has kindly offered to be the official drop- off location for this year’s contest. This assures that once the beers are received, they will be placed on a skid in their cold room until judging. The Amsterdam Brewery is located at 21 Bathurst Street in Toronto and you can drop the entries off in person at their retail store. See: http://www.amsterdambeer.com/contact/contactus
For those residing outside the GTA, courier/postal shipments will be accepted by the Amsterdam Brewery, provided that all charges have been prepaid by the entrant, and that no receipt signature is requested. The entries should be well packaged and protected from breakage (i.e., use a sturdy box and line it with a plastic garbage bag and partition/wrap each bottle with sufficient protective packaging material. Please do not use styrofoam packaging peanuts). The package should be addressed to:
Toronto Beer Week Homebrew Contest
c/o Amsterdam Brewery
21 Bathurst Street
Toronto ON M5V 2N6
Deadline for Entries
To be eligible for the Contest, entries must be received by the Amsterdam Brewery retail store by 6pm on Saturday September 8th, 2012. Entries received after the deadline will be disqualified.
Judging
Contest judging sessions will take place in September 2012 as contest judges and facilities become available. Details on the final round judging session will be announced on the TBW website, once arrangements have been confirmed. The Contest is not BJCP sanctioned and will not be judged solely on BJCP criteria.
Given that contest prizes will include pro-am brewing opportunities for winning beers/brewers, the brewers from the breweries that will be awarding the prizes will have other considerations including whether the beer could be brewed at their brewery, on a production or pilot scale. A judge who has entered beers into the contest will be screened from judging activity respecting his or her entries. All decisions of judges and TBW are final. Feedback will be provided to the entrant by email, after the contest.
Prizes
Winning beers will be awarded 1st, 2nd and 3rd place for each category, or grouped category, depending on the circumstances. Beers awarded 1st, 2nd and 3rd place for each category, or grouped category will be eligible for final round judging. Prizes will be announced on the TBW Website once we are able to confirm prize information with the prize donors. Where more than one brewer is listed on the form, the prize will be awarded to the person who entered the beer.
If the prize is a pro-am brewing opportunity, transportation and accommodation costs are the responsibility of the winner. The prize winner will be expected to follow any direction received from the prize donor, including any requirements to sign waivers, wear protective equipment, or to be available at a specified date/time/location in order to participate in a pro-am brewing session, which may not be negotiable due to brewery production scheduling. TBW will post an announcement listing all of the Contest winners shortly after final judging takes place.
For full Toronto Beer Week 2012 home brew competition rules and registration, please visit http://www.brewcompetition.ca.