Dark Side Of Winter 2025 Info
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Rules
"The Dark Side of Winter" Competition Rules
1 - This Competition is an BJCP-sanctioned homebrew competition open to all homebrewers. An entrant is the one or more people submitting an entry. Member(s) of an entrant must have actively contributed to brewing, fermenting, and bottling an entry. Every member must be at least 21 years of age. An entrant may not be an entire brew club. Competition staff, judges and stewards are permitted to be entrants. Professional Brewers are permitted to be entrants as long as the entry was not brewed on commercial equipment
2 - All entries will be picked up from drop-off locations the day of the drop-off deadline.
3 - 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.).
4 - The competition organizers are not responsible for mis-categorized entries or entries that arrived damaged.
5 - 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.
6 - 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.
7 - 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.
8 - The Best of Show judging will be determined by a Best of Show panel based on a second judging of the top winners.
9 - Submitted bottles/cans become property of the competition.
10 - The official style guidelines for this competition are the 2021 BJCP guidelines.
BJCP 2021 Judging Styles
If a style's name is hyperlinked, it has specific entry requirements. Select or tap on the name to view the subcategory's requirements.
| 2C International Dark Lager | 3D Czech Dark Lager | 4A Munich Helles |
| 8A Munich Dunkel | 8B Schwarzbier | 9A Doppelbock |
| 9B Eisbock | 9C Baltic Porter | 13A Dark Mild |
| 13B British Brown Ale | 13C English Porter | 15B Irish Stout |
| 15C Irish Extra Stout | 16A Sweet Stout | 16B Oatmeal Stout |
| 16C Tropical Stout | 16D Foreign Extra Stout | 19C American Brown Ale |
| 20A American Porter | 20B American Stout | 20C Imperial Stout |
| 21B2 Black IPA | 21B3 Brown IPA | 26D Belgian Dark Strong Ale |
| 27A4 London Brown Ale | 34C Experimental Beer | 53A Specialty Dark Beer (Custom Style) |
Number of Bottles Required Per Entry: 2
Judging Sessions
Preliminary Judging - Craftsman Brewing Company
Thursday, January 30, 2025 6:00 PM, PST
Main Judging - Arts District Brewing Company
Saturday, February 1, 2025 10:00 AM, PST
Best of Show
The Best of Show judging will be determined by a Best of Show panel based on a second judging of the top winners.
Awards
- Places may be awarded to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in each category/table. If no entry in a category is deemed worthy of a place, no award will be given.
The 1st place entry in each category will advance to the Best of Show (BOS) round with a single, overall Best of Show beer selected.
We will distribute medals via mail to the winners, entrants score sheets will be scanned and uploaded to this website.
Awards Ceremony
Virtual
Virtual
Saturday, February 10, 2024 2:05 PM, PST
Past Winners
Judging Sessions
Preliminary Judging - Craftsman Brewing Company
01/30/2025 6:00 PM, PST.
Main Judging - Arts District Brewing Company
02/01/2025 10:00 AM, PST.
Account Registration Closed
Account registrations accepted 12/22/2024 12:00 AM, PST through 01/30/2025 6:00 PM, PST.
Entry Registration Closed
Entry Drop-Off Closed
Please pay attention to the notes provided for each drop-off location. There could be earlier deadlines for some drop-off locations listed, particular hours when entries are accepted, certain individuals to leave your entries with, etc. All entrants are responsible for reading the information provided by the organizers for each drop-off location.