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Thank you for your interest in the 26th Annual BEER & Mead Brew Off organized by Brewers East End Revival, Po' Boy Brewery 200 Wilson Street Unit E3 Port Jefferson Station N.Y. 11776.

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.

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Rules

This competition is AHA sanctioned and open to any amateur homebrewer age 21 or older. All entries will be picked up from drop-off locations the day of the drop-off deadline. If dropping off, please place your entries in 6-pack holders - don't just bring in loose bottles. Much easier to manage for everyone involved. 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. Each flight will have at least one BJCP judge. Brewers are not limited to one entry in each category but may only enter each subcategory once. The competition committee reserves the right to combine overall style 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. The Best of Show judging will be determined by a Best of Show panel based on a second judging of the top winners. Bottles will not be returned to entrants.

Mead Rules

Mandatory Requirements:Entrants MUST specify carbonation level (still; petillant or lightly carbonated; sparkling or highly carbonated).
Entrants MUST specify strength level (hydromel or light mead; standard mead; sack or strong mead).
Entrants MUST specify sweetness level (dry; semi-sweet or medium; sweet).
Minor differences from stated levels should not be heavily penalized or be considered a disqualifying fault.

Optional Requirements: Entrants MAY specify honey varieties used, as well as the source and season of the honey. If honey varieties are declared, judges will look for the varietal character of the honey. Note that the character of a varietal honey will be identifiable as distinct to the source flowers, but may not resemble the source plant, tree, or fruit. For example, orange blossom honey has the character of orange blossoms, not oranges; blackberry honey is only distantly like blackberries, although it is an identifiable character. If a mead is oak-aged and the oak character is noticeable, the oaking can be specified. Judges should expect to detect oak, but not as a primary flavor.
Category-Specific Requirements: Some categories require additional information, particularly in categories other than traditional mead. For example, declaring specific fruit, spices, or special characteristics. Supplemental materials may be provided to judges if an obscure or unusual ingredient or method is used.
Defaults: If no attributes are specified, judges should evaluate the mead as a semi-sweet, petillant, standard strength mead with no varietal honey character and no special ingredients. Competition organizers should make every effort to ensure that judges are provided the full set of attributes of the meads being evaluated.
 

Number of Bottles Required Per Entry: 2

Competition Official

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

  • Dean Doty — Competition Coordinator

Sponsors

Brewers East End Revival is proud to have the following sponsors for the 26th Annual BEER & Mead Brew Off.

Po' Boy Brewery
200 Wilson St Unit E3, Port Jefferson Station, NY 11776
Po' Boy Brewery
South Shore Craft Brewery
3505 Hampton Rd, Oceanside, NY 11572
South Shore Craft Brewery
Bellport Cold Beer & Soda
417 Station Rd, Bellport, NY 11713
Bellport Cold Beer & Soda
Karp's Hardware & Homebrew Shop
2 Larkfield Rd, East Northport, NY 11731
Karp's Hardware & Homebrew Shop
River Drive Cooperage
 
River Drive Cooperage
Spider Bite Brewing Co.
920 Lincoln Ave #5, Holbrook, NY 11741
Spider Bite Brewing Co.
Spike Brewing
 
Spike Brewing
Five Star
 
Five Star
Imperial Yeast
 
Imperial Yeast
Inkbird
 
Inkbird
Label Peelers
 
Label Peelers
Moriches Field Brewing Co.
1 Wilcox Ave. Moriches N.Y.
Moriches Field Brewing Co.
1940's Brewing Company
1337 Lincoln Ave #1, Holbrook, NY 11741
1940's Brewing Company
Allagash
 
Allagash
American Homebrewers Association
 
American Homebrewers Association
Amoretti
 
Amoretti
Bellport Brewing Co.
 
Bellport Brewing Co.
Brewers Friend
 
Brewers Friend
Brewers Publications
 
Brewers Publications
Ghost Brewing Company
25 Drexel Dr, Bay Shore, NY 11706
Ghost Brewing Company
Omega
 
Omega
Williams Brewing
 
Williams Brewing
Wyeast
 
Wyeast
Boiron Puree
 
Boiron Puree
Bootleg Biology
 
Bootleg Biology
BSG
 
BSG
Crisp Malt
 
Crisp Malt
Dingemans Malt
 
Dingemans Malt
Gambrinus
 
Gambrinus
Mangrove Jack
 
Mangrove Jack
Rahr
 
Rahr
Simpsons Malt
 
Simpsons Malt
Weyermann Malt
 
Weyermann Malt