Lagerpalooza

Thank you for your interest in the Lagerpalooza organized by Salt City Brew Supply / Bewilder Brewing Co, 445 South 400 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84047.

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.

Entry Registration is Open

81 entries have been added to the system as of 10:29 PM, MDT, Friday, April 19, 2024.

35 paid entries are in the system as of 10:29 PM, MDT, Friday, April 19, 2024.

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 mailed entries must received at the mailing location by the entry deadline - please allow for shipping time.

PAYMENTS can be made only at Salt City Brew Supply or online at saltcitybrewsupply.com. If you drop of your entries anywhere else, you must include cash with your entry. 

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.).

Lagerpalooza is a LAGERS ONLY brew competition. There are a few styles that use ale yeast but are typically aged cold (Alt, Kolsch, etc), but should show lager characteristics. Specialty categories (Fruit Beer, Vegetable Beer, etc), are open to beers where a lager is the base style. Because of the growing popularity of the style, The Specialty IPA (21B) category is specifically open for India Pale Lagers (IPL) only, and is not open to ales. 

The competition organizers are not responsible for mis-categorized entries, mailed entries that are not received by the entry deadline, 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. For example, participants may enter a Belgian Blond (25A) and Belgian Saison (25B), but may not enter two Saisons, even if they are different brews.

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.

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

Bottles will not be returned to entrants.

Entry Acceptance Rules

Number of Bottles Required Per Entry: 2

Each entry will consist of 2 - 12 ounce capped brown beer bottles that are void of all identifying information, including labels. Printed caps are allowed, but must be blacked out completely.

Bottles will not be returned to contest entrants.

Completed entry forms and recipe sheets must be submitted with all entries, and can be printed directly from this website. Entry forms 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, and please note base styles for any catch-all category or specialty beer. Failure to note such ingredients/base styles may impact the judges' scoring of your entry.

Brewers are not limited to one entry in each category but may only enter each subcategory once.

PAYMENTS can be made only at Salt City Brew Supply or online at saltcitybrewsupply.com. If you drop of your entries anywhere else, you must include cash with your entry. 

Competition Officials

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

• Cody McKendrick — Competition Organizer
• Ross Metzger — Competition Coordinator