Thank you for your interest in the Happy Holidays Homebrew Competition organized by St. Louis Brews, St. Louis, MO.

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.

Entry Registration is Open

619 entries have been added to the system as of 4:48 PM, CST, Wednesday, November 20, 2024.

576 paid entries are in the system as of 4:48 PM, CST, Wednesday, November 20, 2024. There is a limit of 650 paid entries for this competition.

To add your entries into the system, please proceed through the registration process or log in if you already have an account.

Judge and Steward Registration is Open

If you have not registered and are willing to be a volunteer, please register.

If you have registered, log in and then choose Edit Account from the My Account menu indicated by the icon on the top menu.

Rules

Due to the size of this competitons, meads and ciders are now moved to a separate competition, Mead Me In St. Louis, which is held in September. The Happy Holidays Homebrew Competition is now beer-only.

This competition is AHA sanctioned and open to any amateur beermaker age 21 or older.

All mailed entries must be received at the mailing location by the entry deadline - please allow for shipping time.

All entries must be paid for with credit card / PayPal. Checks will not be accepted. There is a limit of 650 paid entries. Once 650 paid entries have been registered and paid for, the unpaid ones will be disqualified.

All entries will be picked up from drop-off locations the day of the entry 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.).

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.

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. The average of the scores will rank each entry in its category. Each flight will have at least one BJCP judge.

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 entries 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. Medals will be awarded to the top three Best of Show beers.

Entry Acceptance Rules

Number of Bottles Required Per Entry: 2

Each entry will consist of two 10 to 12 ounce capped bottles void of all identifying information (raised lettering on re-used commercial beer bottles is OK). Printed caps are allowed, but must be blacked out completely. Cans will be accepted.

12oz brown glass bottles are preferred; however, green and clear glass will be accepted. Larger bottles are accepted, but not encouraged. If sending a larger bottle, two bottles must still be submitted.

Bottles will not be returned to contest entrants.

Entry forms need not be submitted with entries. However, bottle labels are required which can be printed out from this site.

Brewers are not limited to one entry per category or style.

Competition Officials

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

• Jeff Muse — Head Judge
• Mike Walters — Organizer

Sponsors

St. Louis Brews is proud to have the following sponsors for the Happy Holidays Homebrew Competition.

Alpha Brewing Company

 

Shipping location and judging site

Steampunk Brewing

St. Louis, MO

Drop-off location for entries.

Down The Hall Homebrew

Belleville, IL

Drop-off location for entries

Missouri Malt And Mill

St. Louis, MO

Drop-off location for entries.

Crossroads Brewery

9995 Winghaven Blvd, O'Fallon, MO 63368

Drop-off location for entries.