Thank you for your interest in the Kansas City Bier Meisters 42nd Annual Homebrew Competition organized by Kansas City Bier Meisters.

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.

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 mailed entries must be received at the mailing location by the entry deadline - please allow for shipping time. If you are an international entrant, please contact the Competition Organizer to make shipping arrangements due to the multiple tariffs in place as well as having the entry having to clear customs.

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 miscategorized entries, mailed entries that are not received by the entry deadline, or entries that arrived damaged.

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 allowed multiple entries in any subcategory, provided they are different beers, meads, or ciders. If in doubt, contact the competition organizer.

The competition committee reserves the right to combine categories based on the number of entries. All possible efforts 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.

Professional Scale-Ups

Your beer will be evaluated by the brewery, and they will select the winner. You will not receive BJCP scoresheets for any scale-up entries.

Scale-up entries will not count against the per-brewer limit or to the overall entry limit. If you would like to add a scale-up entry and you are at the current entrant limit or we are at the overall limit, here are the steps:

• Pay your $12 entry fee via PayPal and include a note that this is for a KCBM scale-up entry
• Send an email to kcbmcomp@gmail.com (or use the contact form) with the specific category
• We will confirm your payment and add your entry manually

Entrants must be willing to travel to Kansas City for their brew day in the event they win a scale-up at a brewery.

Please specify the style and any special ingredients in the required info section of your entry.

Include your recipe when you drop off or ship your beer to us. Your recipe should be printed on a full sheet of paper. It needs to include your entry number clearly at the top and should not contain any personally identifiable information.

KC Bier Co (Custom Style 50A) - This scale-up is for a German Ale or Lager (no sours). Also, please keep in mind that KC Bier Co brews with all German ingredients and follows Reinheitsgebot on virtually all of their beers.

Transport Brewery (Custom Style 51A) - This scale-up is for a West Coast IPA (BJCP 21A). The winner gets a 3bbl scale-up with Transport Brewery in Shawnee, Kansas.

Special Categories

Special Category Information Coming Soon

Special category entries will not count against the per-brewer limit. If you would like to add a special category entry and you are at the current entrant limit, here are the steps:

• Pay your $12 entry fee via PayPal and include a note that this is for a KCBM special entry
• Send an email to kcbmcomp@gmail.com (or use the contact form) with the specific category
• We will confirm your payment and add your entry manually

Giving Back to the Community

Each year, the Kansas City Bier Meisters like to give back to the community. This year, a portion of the competition proceeds will be donated to the Harvesters Community Food Network.

KCBM will donate all professional scale-up entry fees ($12 per entry) and $5 for each banquet ticket sold.

Harvesters provide food and related household products to more than 760 nonprofit agencies, including emergency food pantries, community kitchens, homeless shelters, children’s homes, and others. We also offer education programs to increase community awareness of hunger and teach about good nutrition.

Entry Acceptance Rules

Number of Bottles Required Per Entry: 2

Each entrant is limited to 6 PAID entries for the first four weeks that registration is open.

If we don't have 750 PAID entries in four weeks, we will increase the entrant limit to 8 PAID entries.

If we don't have 750 PAID entries in six weeks, we will increase the entrant limit to 10 PAID entries.

Normal Entry Acceptance Rules

Each entry will consist of 12-ounce capped bottles or corked bottles that are void of all identifying information, including labels and embossing. Printed caps are allowed but must be blacked out completely.

Entries will consist of 2 bottles. Entries with only 1 bottle will not be eligible for Best of Show.

12oz brown glass bottles are preferred. However, green and clear glass will be accepted. Swing-top bottles will likewise be accepted as well as corked bottles, as long as they fit in the sorting boxes. Cans are accepted as well.

The key attribute is they must fit in a standard 12-ounce long neck case box.

Bottles will not be returned to contest entrants.

Entry labels should be attached to bottles with a rubber band only. Glue and/or tape are unacceptable.

Please fill out the entry forms completely. Be meticulous about noting any special ingredients that must be specified. Failure to note such ingredients may impact the judges' scoring of your entry.

Professional Scale-Ups

Your beer will be evaluated by the brewery, and they will select the winner. You will not receive BJCP scoresheets for any scale-up entries

Special Categories

Only a single bottle is required for this entry. The winner of this category will not participate in Best of Show.

Competition Official

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

• Kcbm Comp — Competition Coordinator

Sponsors

Kansas City Bier Meisters is proud to have the following sponsors for the Kansas City Bier Meisters 42nd Annual Homebrew Competition.

KC Bier Co

 

Bacchus And Barleycorn