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Thank you for your interest in the 2025 Microfest 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

224 entries have been added to the system as of 9:06 PM, CDT, Wednesday, April 2, 2025.

206 paid entries are in the system as of 9:06 PM, CDT, Wednesday, April 2, 2025. There is a limit of 250 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

We are proud to announce that ALL proceeds from the Microfest Homebrew Competition go to support a local organization, Lift for Life Gym! ([https://liftforlifegym.org/])

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

Generally Microfest is organized similar to the BJCP Alternate Categorization #3.
--https://dev.bjcp.org/beer-styles/3-styles-sorted-using-style-family/

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 250 paid entries. Once 250 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. 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.

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 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. Please try to avoid entering corked bottles, swing tops, bombers, wine bottles, and anything else that may not fit neatly in a standard 24-bottle case. Such bottles make it difficult to stack cases.

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. However, there is a limit of 8 entries total per brewer.

Competition Officials

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

  • Green, Michael Reding, Keith — Head Judge(s)
  • Matt Schaller — Organizer

Sponsors

St. Louis Brews is proud to have the following sponsors for the 2025 Microfest Homebrew Competition.

Alpha Brewing Company
 
Alpha Brewing Company
Shipping location and judging site
Steampunk Brewing
St. Louis, MO
Steampunk Brewing
Drop-off location for entries.
Down The Hall Homebrew
Belleville, IL
Down The Hall Homebrew
Drop-off location for entries
Missouri Malt And Mill
St. Louis, MO
Missouri Malt And Mill
Drop-off location for entries.
Crossroads Brewery
9995 Winghaven Blvd, O'Fallon, MO 63368
Crossroads Brewery
Drop-off location for entries.