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Rules

The Sydney Beer Week – ProAm Homebrew Competition is BJCP sanctioned and open to any amateur homebrewer aged 18 or older who is resident in NSW.

The competition will be sponsored by commercial breweries and have multiple flights, one for each participating brewery.

The homebrewer winning a flight will work with the sponsoring brewery to brew their beer commercially for Sydney Beer Week.

By entering the competition, the entrant acknowledges and agrees to surrender all intellectual property rights associated with their recipe, and waives any commercial claims on proceeds from the use of that recipe by the sponsoring brewery.

If multiple breweries have selected the same BJCP style, entrants can only enter the style once and must choose their preferred brewery.

An entrant can enter multiple flights but can only place first in one flight which will be with their highest scoring beer, the organisers reserve the right to make the final decision on rule interpretation as required.

If a winner of a flight no longer wishes to be a part of the Pro-Am competition, this will pass to the 2nd place winner and so on.

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.)

All mailed entries must be received at the shipping location by the deadline - please allow for shipping time. All entries will be picked up from drop-off locations the day of the drop-off deadline.

The competition organisers are not responsible for entries entered into the wrong style, mailed entries that are not received by the entry deadline, or entries that arrive damaged.

Qualified judging of all entries is an important goal of our event. Judges will evaluate and score each entry. The consensus of the scores will be used to rank each entry in its category.

In the event of tied scores in determining the first places, this will be resolved either by the judging panel during judging or using a progressive countback until the tie is resolved based on:

  • highest score for Overall Impression;
  • highest score for Flavour;
  • smallest spread of individual judge scores
  • the judging panel and/or head judge will resolve the tie.

Containers will not be returned to entrants.

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BJCP 2021 Judging Styles

If a style's name is hyperlinked, it has specific entry requirements. Select or tap on the name to view the subcategory's requirements.

16A1E Sweet Stout - Endeavour Tap Rooms (Custom Style)16B1E Oatmeal Stout - Endeavour Tap Rooms (Custom Style)16C1E Tropical Stout - Endeavour Tap Rooms (Custom Style)
16D1E Foreign Extra Stout - Endeavour Tap Rooms (Custom Style)21A1C American IPA - The Coastal Brewing Company (Custom Style)21C1C Hazy IPA - The Coastal Brewing Company (Custom Style)
21D2R Black IPA - Rocks Brewing Company (Custom Style) 21E3R Brown IPA - Rocks Brewing Company (Custom Style) 21F4R Red IPA - Rocks Brewing Company (Custom Style)
21G5R Rye IPA - Rocks Brewing Company (Custom Style) 21H6R White IPA - Rocks Brewing Company (Custom Style) 21I7R Brut IPA - Rocks Brewing Company (Custom Style)
21J8R Belgian IPA - Rocks Brewing Company (Custom Style) 21K1F Red IPA - Freshwater Brewing Company (Custom Style) 21P3W Brown IPA - Wayward Brewing Co (Custom Style)
21Q1W Belgian IPA - Wayward Brewing Co (Custom Style) 21R2W Black IPA - Wayward Brewing Co (Custom Style) 21S5W Brut IPA - Wayward Brewing Co (Custom Style)
21T6W White IPA - Wayward Brewing Co (Custom Style) 21U7W Rye IPA - Wayward Brewing Co (Custom Style) 21V4W Red IPA - Wayward Brewing Co (Custom Style)
21W1D Southern California IPA - One Drop Brewing Co (Custom Style) 21Z1A American IPA - Akasha Brewing Company (Custom Style)22A1D Double IPA - Dad & Dave's Brewing (Custom Style)
22B1D American Strong Ale - Dad & Dave's Brewing (Custom Style)22C1D American Barleywine - Dad & Dave's Brewing (Custom Style)22D1D Wheatwine - Dad & Dave's Brewing (Custom Style)
23A1C Berliner Weisse - The Coastal Brewing Company (Custom Style)23B1C Flanders Red Ale - The Coastal Brewing Company (Custom Style)23C1C Oud Bruin - The Coastal Brewing Company (Custom Style)
23D1C Lambic - The Coastal Brewing Company (Custom Style)23E1C Gueuze - The Coastal Brewing Company (Custom Style)23F1C Fruit Lambic - The Coastal Brewing Company (Custom Style)
23G1C Gose - The Coastal Brewing Company (Custom Style)24A1D Witbier - Dad & Dave's Brewing (Custom Style)24B1D Belgian Pale Ale - Dad & Dave's Brewing (Custom Style)
24C1D Biere de Garde - Dad & Dave's Brewing (Custom Style)26A1S Belgian Single - Slow Lane Brewing (Custom Style)26B1S Belgian Dubbel - Slow Lane Brewing (Custom Style)
26C1S Belgian Tripel - Slow Lane Brewing (Custom Style)26D1S Belgian Dark Strong Ale - Slow Lane Brewing (Custom Style)29A1E Fruit Beer - Endeavour Tap Rooms (Custom Style)
30A1E Spiced Beer - Endeavour Tap Rooms (Custom Style) 31A1E Alternative Fermentables - Endeavour Tap Rooms (Custom Style) 32A1E Smoked Beer - Endeavour Tap Rooms (Custom Style)
33A1E Wood Beer - Endeavour Tap Rooms (Custom Style) O2A1R International Pale Lager - Rocks Brewing Company (Custom Style)O2B1R International Amber Lager - Rocks Brewing Company (Custom Style)
O2C1R International Dark Lager - Rocks Brewing Company (Custom Style)O4A1B Munich Helles - Badlands Brewery (Custom Style)O4B1B Festbier - Badlands Brewery (Custom Style)
O4C1B Helles Bock - Badlands Brewery (Custom Style)O6A1W Marzen - White Bay Brewery (Custom Style)O6B1W Rauchbier - White Bay Brewery (Custom Style)
O6C1W Dunkles Bock - White Bay Brewery (Custom Style)O7A1B Vienna Lager - Badlands Brewery (Custom Style)O7B1B Altbier - Badlands Brewery (Custom Style)
O7W1W Vienna Lager - White Bay Brewery (Custom Style)O7X1W Altbier - White Bay Brewery (Custom Style)O8A1W Munich Dunkel - White Bay Brewery (Custom Style)
O8B1W Schwarzbier - White Bay Brewery (Custom Style)O9A1D Doppelbock - Dad & Dave's Brewing (Custom Style) O9B1D Eisbock - Dad & Dave's Brewing (Custom Style)
O9C1D Baltic Porter - Dad & Dave's Brewing (Custom Style)Q2A1F International Pale Lager - Frenchies Bistro & Brewery (Custom Style)Q5A1F German Leichtbier - Frenchies Bistro & Brewery (Custom Style)
Q5B1F Kolsch - Frenchies Bistro & Brewery (Custom Style)Q5C1F German Helles Exportbier - Frenchies Bistro & Brewery (Custom Style)Q5D1F German Pils - Frenchies Bistro & Brewery (Custom Style)
QX51F NZ Pilsner - Frenchies Bistro & Brewery (Custom Style)  

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Number of Containers Required Per Entry: 1

Judging Sessions

The Belvedere Hotel - Sydney
Sunday 4 August, 2024 10:00, AEST

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Best of Show

The 1st place entry in each category will be offered the opportunity to work with the sponsoring brewery.

Categories in each brewery’s section are as follows:

White Bay Brewery

Wayward Brewing Co

The Coastal Brewing Company

Slow Lane Brewing

Rocks Brewing Company

Endeavour Tap Rooms

Dad & Dave's Brewing

Badlands Brewery

Akasha

Freshwater Brewing Company

One Drop

Frenchies Bistro & Brewery


Categories link to the BJCP site where you can see which styles are within that category and get some info on what you can aim for in brewing this style.

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Awards

Results will be posted to the competition web site after the judging concludes.

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