Thank you for your interest in the Blue Ridge Brew-Off (2024) organized by M.A.L.T (Mountain Ale & Lager Tasters), Asheville, NC.

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.

Thanks and Good Luck To All Who Entered the Blue Ridge Brew-Off (2024)!

There are 250 registered entries and 109 registered participants, judges, and stewards.

As of 3:38 PM, EDT, there are 226 received and processed entries (this number will update as entries are picked up from drop-off locations and organized for judging).

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.

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, 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. 

Brewers may put multiple entries in each category as well as each subcategory as long as it is a different beer. Brewers will be limited to a maximum of 6 entries.

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.

Judging Sessions

Friday Evening
Friday, September 13, 2024 6:00 PM, EDT

Saturday Morning
Saturday, September 14, 2024 8:00 AM, EDT

Saturday Afternoon
Saturday, September 14, 2024 1:00 PM, EDT

Competition Officials

Brian Jefferis: Competition Organizer

Dave Byer: Head Judge

Faith Faw: Registrar and Cellarmaster

Chris P. Frey: Raffle Coordinator

Trevor Sharp & Sara Stansbery: Head Stewards

Dave Tollefsen: Webmaster

Sponsors

M.A.L.T (Mountain Ale & Lager Tasters) is proud to have the following sponsors for the Blue Ridge Brew-Off (2024).