Competitions
Sending your beer to competitions is a great way to get quality feedback. Most judges are BJCP certified and will put their e-mail address on the score sheets if you have questions. You usually send two or three bottles in. The bottles have to be un-marked, no-labels, no-embossed logos. Wrapping each bottle in bubble wrap works pretty well.
AHA Competition Calendar
Annual competitions
- Byggvir's Big Beer Cup, the Minnesota Renaissance Festival's Home Brew Competition
- MN State Fair mead, beer and cider competion
- National Organic Homebrew Challenge
- Sam Adams Long Shot
- Upper Mississippi Mash Out
- Cass River Homebrew at the W.E.B.
There are many other competitions out there.
