Capital Brewer's Indian Summer Beer Competition

[phoenix]

Should be instant. PM me your name and entry info and ill check it for you.

[phoenix]

I received your payment alright. Ive marked your entry paid now, not sure what happened there.

If anyone else has issues please post on thread.

[garciaBernal]

I received your payment alright. Ive marked your entry paid now, not sure what happened there.

If anyone else has issues please post on thread.

Thanks a lot for that.

[helmet]

I received your payment alright. Ive marked your entry paid now, not sure what happened there.

If anyone else has issues please post on thread.

I'm in the same boat. Paid up, but it's listed as unpaid.

Based on BJCP IPA Style Grouping, we want you to brew your best Indian Pale Ale ( Although Pale may optional these days).

Given the warm weather there may be an added challenge for some people but there's plenty of tips and advice to help with this.

Styles Open to be entered are:

12C. English IPA

21A. American IPA

21B. Specialty IPA (Including, but not limited to,Belgian IPA, Black IPA, Brown IPA, Red IPA & White IPA)

22A. Double IPA

The closing date for entries to be registered is 14th August.

Closing date for dropping off bottles is Friday 20th August Beers must be with your local club rep that has agreed to be a drop off point or at the venue below.

The competition will be held on Sat 27th August..

Location: Wallace's Asti, 18 Russell Street, Dublin 1.

There will be prizes for each sub-category, with a grand prize for Best of Show.

Max 60 beers, (Limit: 1 beer per person per  sub-category).

Cost €5 per entry.Must be paid via http://capitalbrewers.org/ using Paypal.

Open to All Full Members of National Homebrew Club.

Full rules, terms & conditions below and on competition website.

Registration Via: http://capitalbrewers.org/

Please PM if you want to volunteer for stewarding or judging.

Styles Open to be entered are:

- 12C. English IPA
- 21A. American IPA
- 21B. Specialty IPA (Including, but not limited to,Belgian IPA, Black IPA, Brown IPA, Red IPA & White IPA)
- 22A. Double IPA

Brewers are limited to only one entry per subcategory – max 4 entries. The competition total limit is 60.

Members Only
Registration is open only to Full National Homebrew Club members. Members must use their email address associated with their membership in order to register.

Online Payment
Entry fees must be paid online using the competition application; payment MUST be made using PayPal. Paypals fees must be paid by entrant. Entries will not be confirmed until payment has been received.
If required, withdrawal of paid entries must be made prior to registration cut off date (14th August 2016) after which point the entry will be deemed committed and no refund will be available.

Drop Points
Wallace's Asti, 18 Russell Street, Dublin 1 will act as main drop point.
Local Club Reps will be contacted and will advise if any local club members can act as a drop point that will be able to transport entries to the venue for judging.

General Structure, Rules & Regulations
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 brews in combined categories will be judged according to the style they were originally entered in.

Entries

- There is a limit of sixty (60) entries for this competition.
- Entry Fees: €5.00 per entry.
- Entries must be registered and paid by 14th August.
- Entries must be 2 x 500ml Brown crown capped or swing-top bottles regardless of strength. These must be void of all identifying information, including labels and embossing.
- Corked bottles are not acceptable .
- Printed caps are allowed, but must be blacked out completely.
- Brown glass bottles are preferred; however, green glass will be accepted. Clear glass is not acceptable. 
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- Bottles will not be returned to contest entrants.

- Completed entry forms and recipe sheets must be submitted with all entries, and can be printed directly from this website.

- Entry forms should be attached to bottles with a rubber band only; glue and/or tape are unacceptable.

- Bottles not meeting the above requirements will be disqualified

- Please fill out the entry forms completely. Be meticulous about noting any special ingredients that must be specified. Failure to note such ingredients may impact the judges' scoring of your entry.


Competition & Prizes

The Best of Show judging will be determined by a Best of Show panel based on a second judging of the top winners.

The awards ceremony will take place once judging is completed.

Places will be awarded to each sub category based on size: Large sub-categories will have slots for 1st, 2nd & Honourable Mention (HM), Smaller sub-categories will depend in entries received. (IE. We can't offer 3 medals for a sub-category with 4 entries...). The competition organizers reserves the right to dictate how this will be structured based on confirmed entries registered and will publish the same in advance of the competition date.

Top placing entries in each sub-category will advance to the Best of Show (BOS) round with a single, overall Best of Show beer selected.
Additional prizes may be awarded to those winners present at the awards ceremony at the discretion of the competition organizers.

Prizes will be announced ahead of the competition date.

The competition organizer is not responsible for inaccurate prize details supplied to any entrant by any third party connected with this competition.

No cash alternative to the prizes will be offered. The prizes are not transferable. Prizes are subject to availability and we reserve the right to substitute any prize with another of equivalent value without giving notice.

Score sheets will either be scanned and emailed or returned after the awards ceremony – awards will be available after the ceremony concludes. Score sheets not picked up will be emailed back to participants. Results will be posted to the competition web site after the ceremony concludes. Bottles will not be returned to entrants.



The competition organizers reserves the right to cancel or amend the competition and these terms and conditions without notice in the event of a catastrophe, war, civil or military disturbance, act of God or any actual or anticipated breach of any applicable law or regulation or any other event outside of The competition organizer's control. Any changes to the competition will be notified to entrants, via Nationalhomebrewclub.ie/forum/, as soon as possible by the competition organizer.

Entry into the competition will be deemed as acceptance of these full terms and conditions set out above.

[phoenix]

I'm in the same boat. Paid up, but it's listed as unpaid.

PM me your details.

There were a few others paid but not marked as paid, I think Ive got them all now.

[helmet]

I'm in the same boat. Paid up, but it's listed as unpaid.

PM me your details.

There were a few others paid but not marked as paid, I think Ive got them all now.

Just checked it again and it's grand now, thanks. I haven't received bottle labels though.

[Ciaran]

There's a print button beside each entry where you can print them off from the comp page

[helmet]

Ah, grand job, thanks.

[Hingo]

Have just emailed everyone registered on http://capitalbrewers.org/ remind everyone that the cut off for registration and payment is this Sunday (14th)

Please can you all make sure you have your entries up and paid for asap, as once the window closes, will be removing non-paid entries.

I've also included further details on drop offs and bottle criteria. 

[Pheeel]

Just out of interest how many entries are you at now?

[Hingo]

45ish

[Hingo]

Clock is ticking folks.

[Simon_]

I've paid for my entries so you can go ahead and shut it down early

[Pheeel]

I've paid for my entries so you can go ahead and shut it down early

Shall we tell Rascals to book you in for your brewing session too? 

[Simon_]

Shall we tell Rascals to book you in for your brewing session too? 

It'd give them a chance to order in the all those lovely hops from NZ