Western Idaho Fair Amateur Beer Competition

Thank you for your interest in the Western Idaho Fair Amateur Beer Competition organized by Snake River Brewers, Boise, ID.

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.

Entry Registration is Open

107 entries have been added to the system as of 6:53 PM, MDT, Wednesday, August 4, 2021.

76 paid entries are in the system as of 6:53 PM, MDT, Wednesday, August 4, 2021.

To add your entries into the system, please proceed through the registration process or log in if you already have an account.

Judge and Steward Registration is Open

If you have not registered and are willing to be a volunteer, please register.

If you have registered, log in and then choose Edit Account from the My Account menu indicated by the icon on the top menu.

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 entry 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.

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 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.

Judging times & locations are subject to change.

The Best of Show judging will be determined by a Best of Show panel based on a second judging of the top winners.

The Beer of the Year award will be selected from the Best of Show beers by Sockeye Brewing and Western Idaho Fair personnel.

Bottles will not be returned to entrants.

Competition Officials

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

• Steve Dockter — Head Judge
• Jeremy Gramkow — Overall Competition Organizer
• Chris Hillman — Website And Social Media Coordinator
• Terry Jones — Head Steward