NCB Hop Star - hop focused Homebrew competition

[Pheeel]

North County Brewers and Hope Beer are happy to announce the "Hop Star" beer competition. We're looking for American style beers that highlight hops so bring us your bitter/piney/juicy/dank/hazy beers!! This is a BJCP competition, so it's expected that the hopping level for bitterness, flavour and aroma is in line with each category.

Don't worry if you live far from North County Dublin we'll make sure the beers get to us!

Prizes
Our top prize is excellent and provided by Hope Beer:

• Collaborate, later this year, with Hope to design one of their upcoming limited-edition beers!!!
• Be there on brewday for that beer
• Bottles of that limited edition beer to show off to your friends and family (or keep to yourself!)
• Hope merchandise
• Plus other goodies 😊

We will also have an excellent selection of second and third prizes of Hope merchandise. All medal winning entries will receive a variety of beers

Registration form
Fill out the Google Form here

Note

• You will be sent an email straight away after registering. There's a good chance it will end up in your spam folder so please check
• If you need to change your entry (up until the registration closing date) just resubmit via the form again. I'll remove any dupes

Details

• Dates


• Registration closing date: 10th June
• Collection closing date: 15th June
• Judging date: 24th June

• Location
  
  
  
  • Old Boro, Swords, North County Dublin

• Entries


• Open to all full NHC members (active subscription at the time of the comp)
• Entry Fees: €5.00/£5.00 per entry (to be attached to one of the two bottles)
• Total entries per person: 3, max 1 per subcategory
• Maximum total entries: 50
• Drop off points are the regular folks for your club unless I say otherwise. If you don't know who those are let me know.

•    Styles allowed:


• 18B. American Pale Ale
• 19A. American Amber
• 21A. American IPA
• 21B. Speciality IPA
• 22A. Double IPA
• 22B. American Strong Ale
• 22C. American Barleywine

• The small print


• 2 x 500ml brown bottles per entry with entry labels attached
• NO MARKINGS. NO FLIPTOP
• Entry label only secured to bottle with elastic band, no tape or glue
• No marks or images on bottle caps
• Competition owner reserves the right to refuse entries for not complying with small print
• We'll award 1st, 2nd, 3rd for entries in BOS. Prizes to be announced
• NCB and NHC are not responsible for third parties not fulfilling prizes
• Dates will be determined by the Hope production schedule
• The limited-edition beer style is yet to be determined. It's not guaranteed that it will be a style similar to that entered into the competition
• Alternative prizes may be awarded in a case where they cannot be fulfilled. The original or alternate prizes have no monetary equivalent
• Hope will have the final say on style, recipe and ingredients
• No walkins!
• This will be BJCP certified

• Privacy Policy


• Entry information will only be used for the competition and will be deleted within 30 days of the competition date
• If people entered information in the form and decide not to enter the competition, please contact me to have their information removed before that time
• The winner will have their information passed on to Hope to coordinate the prize
• Entry information will not be passed on for any other purposes or to any other third parties

If folks are interested in judging or stewarding please PM me. Any questions let us know!

[Pheeel]

NEIPA is covered by 21B. Speciality IPA

[Will_D]

Great Post Phil

[molc]

Who doesn't like some juicy hoppy beers in the summer to go with bbq

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[fishjam45 (Colin)]

Great idea for a competition lads!
Liking the poster too 

[Pheeel]

Thanks Fishjam!

Were up to 14 entries! Don't miss out on this prize!

If we get enough entries from Cork/Galway/places in between we'll do a special pickup

[fishjam45 (Colin)]

14 out of 50 entries in just a few days?
I'd better get my entries registered if places are filling up so quick.

[Pheeel]

14 out of 50 entries in just a few days?
I'd better get my entries registered if places are filling up so quick.

Yep. Best get it in 🤣

[BigDanny84]

Thanks Fishjam!

Were up to 14 entries! Don't miss out on this prize!

If we get enough entries from Cork/Galway/places in between we'll do a special pickup

If not, will entries be accepted by post?

[Pheeel]

Thanks Fishjam!

Were up to 14 entries! Don't miss out on this prize!

If we get enough entries from Cork/Galway/places in between we'll do a special pickup

If not, will entries be accepted by post?

The plan is to go to Cork first on the Friday then Galway the next day. Assuming folks can meet me on the way I will happily pick up
However happy to accept postal entries. PM me for info

[BigDanny84]

Cheers. I'll be in touch closer to the time. I may be able to get them to Dublin myself. Thanks

[Pheeel]

Cheers. I'll be in touch closer to the time. I may be able to get them to Dublin myself. Thanks

Sorry, to be clear. I'll be making the trip down 15th June which is the closing date

[BigDanny84]

Cheers. I'll be in touch closer to the time. I may be able to get them to Dublin myself. Thanks

Sorry, to be clear. I'll be making the trip down 15th June which is the closing date

Super

[Pheeel]

We're up to 32 submissions. The limit is 50 folks. Don't miss out!!!

[Pheeel]

Latest stats:

• 34 entries
• 19 entrants
• 9 entrants from North County, the rest are a mix of mostly outside Dublin (with a few not!)

It'd be great to some entrants from further afield