- Entrants, their family members, and the brewing community are invited to enter the raffle and attend the KOTM Awards Ceremony beginning at 3:00pm on Saturday 9/7/2024 at Collision Bend Brewing Co. in Euclid, OH.
- We need stewards and judges! Please sign up via the link on the right and click "register" at the top of the page.
Note: New this year, we will purge any entries that are not paid for by 8/24/2024. If you are unable to submit entries because the limit has been reached, please check backafter this date to see if additional openings are available.
Entries will be accepted from 6/15/24 through 8/25/2024
************ RULES ****************
This competition is AHA sanctioned and open to any amateur homebrewer age 21 or older.
- All mailed entries must received at the Cleveland Brewery or Garrett's Mill 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.
- We will strive to provide the best possible judging of all entries. Two or more judges will evaluate and score each entry. Judges will determine final overall score and rankings based on consensus. Each flight will have at least one BJCP judge.
- Brewers may only enter each *sub*category once. Example: participant can enter a Belgian Pale (16B) and Belgian Saison (16C), but may not enter two Saisons.
- The total number of entries will be limited to 175. Maximum entries for each entrant including collaborative entries will be 5. Entries submitted but not paid for by 8/24/2024 will be subject to removal from the competition.
- Categories may be combined by organizer based on number of entries. All possible effort will be made to combine similar styles. All entries 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 for beer. Best of Show will be awarded to Mead and Cider based upon the highest total points of each entry in those categories.
Competition Officials
Contact- lmhba.club@gmail.com
- Nick Greco — Sponsor And Event Coordinator
- Terry Nagy — IT Coordinator