The Strange Brewers Club is proud to announce the second annual National Home-Brew Day Home-Brew Competition! This will be a great chance to enter your home-brews for feedback and constructive criticism... as well as engage in a  little friendly competition with your fellow local brewers!

We are accepting home-brewed entries in all categories of beer, wine, cider, and mead. We also have a category for best presentation, including labels. Click here for more details and entry forms.

While we encourage participation in ALL categories, we are especially interested in your "Strange" brews. Beers that's don't exactly fit any particular category are entered under category 34 Specialty beer.

 

34. Specialty Beer

 

This is explicitly a catch-all category for any beer that does not fit into an existing style category. No beer is ever "out of style" in this category, unless it fits elsewhere.

 

The category is intended for any type of beer, including the following techniques or ingredients:

 

Unusual techniques (e.g., steinbier, ice/eis beers)

 

Unusual fermentables (e.g., maple syrup, honey, molasses, sorghum)

 

Unusual adjuncts (e.g., oats, rye, buckwheat, potatoes)

 

Combinations of other style categories (e.g., India Brown Ale, fruit-and-spice beers, smoked spiced beers)

 

Out-of-style variations of existing styles (e.g., low alcohol versions of other styles, extra-hoppy beers, "imperial" strength beers)

 

Historical, traditional or indigenous beers (e.g., Louvain Peetermann, Sahti, vatted Porter with Brettanomyces, Colonial Spruce or Juniper beers, Kvass, Grätzer)

 

American-style interpretations of European styles (e.g., hoppier, stronger, or ale versions of lagers) or other variants of traditional styles

 

Clones of specific commercial beers that aren't good representations of existing styles

 

Any experimental beer that a brewer creates, including any beer that simply does not evaluate well against existing style definitions