Dark Side Of Winter Stout 2025

Thank you for your interest in the Dark Side Of Winter Stout 2025 organized by So Cal Cerveceros, TBD.

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.

If you are willing to judge or steward, please return to register on or after Wednesday, January 1, 2025 12:00 AM, PST.

Rules

The Dark Side of Winter - SCC Stout Competition is a "Best Beer Competition".

This Competition is open to only active SCC members over the age of 21.

All entries will be picked up from drop-off locations the day of the drop-off deadline.

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 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 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.

Prizes will include medals, homebrew shop gift cards, sponsored swag bags

Submitted bottles/cans become property of the competition.

Entry Acceptance Rules

Number of Bottles Required Per Entry: 2

When entering beer information you MUST include: base style, fruits/spices/specialty adjunct ingredients used and any possible allergens. 

Each entry is $12.

Each entry will consist of capped bottles or sealed cans that are void of all identifying information, including labels and embossing. 

Two 12oz brown glass bottles are preferred; however, green will be accepted. Swing top bottles will likewise be accepted, as well as 12oz and 16oz cans. 

If mailing in your entries we encourage you to add cold packs and protective padding in addition to speedy shipping. (The competition organizers are not responsible for entries that arrive damaged or entries that arrive outside of the scheduled timeframe.)

Also, we recommend to everyone to put your printed out entry papers in a ziplock bag and double rubber band it to your bottles/cans. 

Because of the nature of the contest, special categories may be used depending on the number of entrants.

Submitted bottles/cans become property of the competition.

Bottles/cans will not be returned to contest entrants.

Competition Officials

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

• Israel Arrieta — Director Of Competitions
• Head Steward — Competition Head Steward