May 25 & 26 , 2012
20th Annual Great Alaska Craft Beer and Homebrewer Festival - Haines, Alaska
This events consists of three parts.
On May 25 there is an BJCP sanctioned homebrew competition (see below for details) and a beer dinner. On May 26 there is a beer festival.
Beer Dinner:
Location: Harriet Hall at the Southeast Alaska State Fairgrounds
Time: May 25 at 6:00 p.m.
Cost: $75 a person.
Description: This will be five course gourmet dinner with each course paired craft beers.
Advanced reservations are required. Only 200 tickets are available. Tickets may be purchased with PayPal at http://www.seakfair.org/beer-fest or by calling (907) 766-2476. Note that when purchasing tickets online the tickets will not actually be mailed to you but rather you will need your receipt and a photo ID for admission.
For additional information contact the director of the Southeast Alaska State Fair office at (907) 766-2476 or director@seakfair.org.
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Beer Festival:
Must be at least 21 years old to attend!
Location: Dalton City located at the Southeast Alaska State Fairgrounds
Time: May 26 from 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Cost: $35.00 per person which includes a sample glass and several beer samples.
Description: There will be a beer festival in which several breweries from Alaska and the Pacific Northwest are represented. There will be live music on stage throughout the day. Food will be available for purchase from various vendors.
There will be a free shuttle service between downtown Haines and the fairgrounds.
Tickets may be purchased in advance at http://www.seakfair.org/beer-fest or by calling (907) 766-2476. Purchasing tickets in advance is recommended. There are only 250 tickets available so they may be sold out prior to the event. Online the tickets will not actually be mailed to you but rather you will need to bring your receipt and a photo ID.
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Homebrew Competition:
This is a AHA/BJCP sanctioned competition.
Accepted BJCP styles: All BJCP styles beer, mead and cider will be accepted.
Entry Fee: $5.00 for the first entry and $3.00 for each additional entry. Please make checks out to Robert Miller.
Number of bottles required: Two 12 oz. bottles per entry. The bottles should be free of ink, paint or labels.
Entries may be dropped off or shipped to:
Alaskan Brewing and Bottling Company
5429 Shaune Drive
Juneau, AK 99801
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Haines Brewing Company
108 White Fang Way
Dalton City Southeast Alaska Fairgrounds
Haines, AK 99827
(907) 766-3823
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Entry Deadline: Entries must be received no later than 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 23
Judging: The exact starting time of the judging has yet to be determined. It will take place on May 25 at in the Klondike Saloon at the Southeast Alaska Fairgrounds sometime between 10:00 a.m. and noon. Judges and stewards will receive a free pass to the beer festival (but not the beer dinner).
The winners will be announced on Saturday, May 26 during the beer festival.
For additional information regarding the homebrew competition please go to: http://www.seakfair.org/beer-fest and/or contact Robert Miller at hainesbrewfest@gmail.com or (907) 303-0075.
The contacts for the 20th Annual Great Alaska Craftbeer and Homebrewer Festival in general are the Southeast Alaska State Fair director - (907) 766-2476 or director@seakfair.org and Haines Brewing Company's Paul Wheeler - (907) 766-3823 or hainesbrew@yahoo.com.
July 14, 2012
E.T. Barnette Homebrew Competition - Fox, Alaska
This is an AHA/BJCP sanctioned competition.
The Grand Prize for Best of Show is $500!
Prizes will also be awarded for 1st, 2nd
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Entry Fee: Please include a check
or money order for $5.00. Checks or money orders should be made
out to Scott Stihler.
Number of bottles required: Three 12-16 oz. brown or green bottles per entry. Crown topped bottles are preferred but flip-top (i.e. Grolsch type bottles) are okay. The bottles should be free of any ink, paint or labels. Entries
with labels will be disqualified and the corresponding entry fees will
be considered donations to the prize fund!
Entries will be accepted: June 18
to July 11, 2012 at 5:00 p.m. - No Exceptions!
Judging: Judging will take place
on Saturday, July 14th at the Silver Gulch Brewing and Bottling Company
in Fox starting at about 10:00 a.m. The best entry from each of the
seven judged categories will be entered into the final round of judging
to determine the Best of Show.
The Judged Categories |
Pilsner - 2
A. German Pilsner
B. Bohemian Pilsner
C. Classic American Pilsner
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English
Pale Ale - 8
A. Standard/Ordinary Bitter
B. Special/Best/Premium Bitter
C. Extra Special/Strong Bitter (English Pale Ale) |
American Ale - 10
A. American Pale Ale
B. American Amber Ale
C. American Brown Ale |
Porter - 12
A. Brown
Porter
B. Robust Porter
C. Baltic Porter
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Stout - 13
A. Dry Stout
B. Sweet Stout
C. Oatmeal Stout
D. Foreign Extra Stout
E. American Stout
F. Imperial Stout |
India
Pale Ale (IPA) - 14
A. English IPA
B. American IPA
C. Imperial IPA
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In the above table the numbers represent
the BJCP categories while the letters correspond to the subcategories.
The category names have been linked to the corresponding BJCP webpage
in which the respective categories are described.
Note that depending upon the number
of entries in each of the seven categories it may be necessary to consolidate
two underrepresented categories or subcategories into a single one.
Entry Shipping: Entries should be
shipped by FedEx, UPS etc. to the following address:
ETBHC
c/o Silver Gulch Brewing and Bottling Company
2195 Old Steese Highway
Fox, Alaska 99712
(907) 452-2739 |
There is no mail delivery
to the above address! Items mailed to that address go to a post office
not frequented by the folks at Silver Gulch. Aside from the legalities
(or lack thereof) of sending entries via the U.S. Postal Service, doing
so more than likely will result in them not being picked up in time
for the competition. Please do NOT use the U.S. Mail for shipment of your
entries!!!
Shipping to Alaska is a bit more
expensive than doing so in the contiguous United States. To save yourself
some money you might wish to consider entering the competition with
a friend and sharing the shipping costs.
Please note that FedEx
Overnight Delivery and UPS Red to Alaska are NOT delivered the next day. Although
one pays for this service such packages are delivered in two business
days. Likewise, FedEx Second-day Delivery and UPS Blue to Alaska are really
delivered in three to five business days. Please keep this in mind when
shipping your entries.
Due to the large area
covered by the 99712 zip code NONE of the private carriers (e.g. FedEx Ground, UPS Ground, DHL, Airbourne Express etc.) will ship to the brewery
via their ground based service. Please do NOT ship your entries
by ground based carriers. Although this service is less expensive, the
entries will likely not arrive at their intended destination until well after
the competition.
When packaging your entries please
be sure to use large amounts of
bubble wrap and other packing materials. An employee of FedEx
recommends that packages should be able to sustain a three-four foot fall
and remain intact. Although this may seem a bit excessive please note
should it become apparent that entries have broken in transit, some
shipping companies may not deliver your package; such packages would simply be thrown away.
We recommend placing each
bottle within a large zip-lock bag prior to bubble wrapping. We also recommend placing the paperwork and entry fees in a ziplock bag. If shipping multiple entries please place all of the paperwork at the top of the package to act as a sort of packing list. Lining
the shipping box with a garbage bag which is then sealed around all
of the entries, packing materials etc. is also not a bad idea. Taking such
precautions should ensure that the package still be delivered despite
any mishaps which may happen along the way.
I believe shipping via FedEx
tends to be a bit less expensive than UPS. However, one should be warned that FedEx has changed their alcohol shipping policy. All declared and undeclared alcohol shipments that break are treated as Dangerous goods spills. The FedEx policy for alcohol shipping is such that only known shippers are allowed to do so.
If a package containing a homebrew entry were to break AND leak, the Dangerous Goods person at FedEx would be required by policy to contact their legal department.
Although with proper packaging one can guard against entry breakage and possible leaks things still can happen. Therefore, please use extreme caution should you choose to ship your homebrew entries via FedEx.
Entry Drop off: Entries may also
be dropped off at the Silver Gulch Brewing and Bottling Company's retail store after 4:00 p.m. on week days and after 11:00 a.m. on weekends. Please
have the entries in six-pack carriers and/or boxes (i.e. make the entries
as self-contained as possible).
Entry/Bottle ID Forms: The Entry
and Bottle ID Forms may be printed from the links below. We recommend you use them, however, the standard
AHA/BJCP forms may also be used. If the AHA/BJCP forms are used please be sure to include your T-shirt size and e-mail address.
Since bottles have been known to break in transit we recommend putting
the Entry Form and your check or money order in a separate zip-lock bag. Also please
attach Bottle ID Forms to each of the three bottles per entry with rubber
bands (Please do NOT use tape or glue!). If the tape or glue is used to attached these forms to the bottles, the offending entry or entries may be disqualified and the entry fee considered a donation to the cause. Whether or not such an entry is disqualified depends upon the degree to which the tape and/or glue was used AND mood of the Registrar and Organizer at the time said entry or entries were checked in. Yes, these criteria are rather arbitrary. However, one can avoid this issue entirely by simply NOT taping or gluing the Bottle ID forms to the bottles.
Three bottles per entry are
required just in case there are sufficient entries to warrant multiple
flights during the initial round of judging. Also the additional bottles are added insurance against the loss of an entire entry due to breakage. Because of the logistics
involved unused bottles will not be returned. Sorry.
Please indicate on the Entry Form
which of Category and Subcategory to which you wish to entry your beer.
A complete listing of the BJCP style guidelines may be found at the
following URL: http://www.bjcp.org/2008styles/catdex.php.
Note that one
MUST indicate the Classic Beer Style for
entries in the Fruit/Spice/Herb/Vegetable Beer category. Please indicate
the classic beer style in the space provided on the Entry Form and include
the category number and subcategory letter. For example, for a Basil, Rosemary and Asparagus Mild the classic beer
style would be Category 11: English Brown Ale; Subcategory A: Mild. Failure to indicate the classic beer style for Fruit/Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Beer entries will result in beer styles being assigned to the entries
at random!
Extra awards: In addition to the normal competition we have the Battered Bottle Cap Award for the most humorous beer name and the Globe Trotter Award for the farthest traveled entry. We also give out the Club Spirit Award which is to recognize and honor homebrew clubs which support our competition. Individuals who support the competition above and beyond the call of duty are also recognized. Three or more separate entrants specifying their respective
homebrew club will receive this prestigious award. Individuals
with five or more entries and, therefore, have plenty of club
spirit all by themselves, will also receive the Club Spirit
Award. In 2009 we introduced The Order of the Bronze Hyphen. A hyphen as in what separates the words anal and retentive. This award is given to those entrants who show a high degree of attention to detail and legibility when filling out their paperwork. These entrants not only filled out the paperwork completely and legibly but they also took measures to prevent and contain breakages without bordering on the excessive.
A few FYIs for new entrants:
(1) This is pretty much an internet based competition. We will notify you of developments with respect to the competition via e-mail.
(2) We try to stay out of the way of the good folks at Silver Gulch as much as possible. We will come in on the evening/night of the final day in which entries are accepted (i.e. July 11) to check them in. Prior to this please use your tracking number to check on the status of the entry package.
(3) Please check your e-mail on Thursday, July 12. After checking in entries we send an e-mail to the entrants telling them that their entries arrived okay. If there is some sort of problem with an entry we will notify you at that time as well. Since we often do not finish checking in entries until 1:00 or 2:00 a.m., the e-mails may not be sent out until the next morning. We generally send them out when we get back home but if we are particularly tired we may blow that off until the next morning (i.e. later in the day).
If you do not have an e-mail account and there is some sort of problem we will call you some time on Thursday.
(4) We will notify the Best of Show winner with a phone call from the Silver Gulch shortly after the overall winner has been determined. We are generally finished with the judging between 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. ADT (i.e. 8:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. EDT).
(5) A results webpage is constructed and generally posted on the Sunday following the competition. We will send out an e-mail notifying the entrants that the results are posted and provide a direct link to the results webpage. Please do not ask us for the results prior to this.
(6) On the Monday following the competition (i.e. July 16) a certified check for $500 will be mailed to the Best of Show winner via U.S.P.S. Express Mail.
(7) The entrants' prize packages and competition score sheets are generally mail out 2-3 weeks following the competition. An e-mail will be sent out to the entrants notifying them that the prize packages are on the way.
We
need experienced judges to help out with the judging on July 14!!
If you'd like to judge or need more
information about the E.T. Barnett Homebrew Competition please contact
Scott Stihler at home - (907) 474-2138, work - (907) 474-5450 or stihlerunits@mosquitobytes.com.
Forms Needed for the 2012
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July 21, 2012
2012 Golden Days Beer Fest - Fox, Alaska
Location: Silver Gulch Brewing and Bottling Company's Beer Garden (2195 Old Steese Highway)
Time: 3:00 - 10:00 p.m.
Cost: The cost os $20.00 which gets you a total of 10 samples and a tasting
glass. Tickets may be purchased in advance at Silver Gulch's retail store or at the gate on July 21.
Description: There will be over 150 beers available for sampling. Note that multiple tickets may be required to sample some of the rare or harder to find beers. Food will be available to purchase.
Note that the event time and cost are based upon last year's events so they should be taken with a grain of salt at present. This page will be updated when additional information becomes available.
For more information contact Silver Gulch at (907) 452-2739.
August 11, 2012
2nd Annual Kenai Peninsula Beer Festival - Soldotna, Alaska
Location: Soldotna Sports Center (538 Arena Drive)
Time: 4:00 - 10:00 p.m.
Cost: $20.00 per person which includes admission, a sample glass and three 8 oz. samples. Additional samples may be purchased for $3.00 each or six for $15.00.
Tickets may be purchased in advance at St. Elias Brewing Company, Kassik's Kenai Brew Stop and Kenai River Brewing Company or at the Sports Center the day of the event.
Description: There will be live music and food will be available to purchase.
September 22, 2012
Zymurgist Borealis Septemberfest - Fairbanks, Alaska
The Zymurgist Borealis Homebrew
Club will meet on Saturday, September 22 at the Chena Pump Campgrounds.
The festivities will start at around noon or so.
There will be a potluck of good
food and, of course, plenty of great beer/mead to sample. This event is free
to anybody interested in learning about homebrewing. No riff- raff please. ;-)
The meeting will
take place rain or snow or shine.
For more information contact Scott
Stihler at stihlerunits@mosquitobytes.com or (907) 474-2138.
Pictures and Summaries of Previous Events:
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Below
is a listing of beer-related events taking place in Alaska during 2012.
Upcoming events for which I have information are listed above and the
details are given there. The dates of several of the events listed below
may not be known at present (or at least not known to me). This information
will be updated when I have more details. Most events listed here are
annual events and although the exact dates may vary from year to year
the approximate dates are correct and can be used as a guide to the
remainder of the year as well as next year.
The
Following Events are for the Year 2012 |
January 20 & 21 |
Great Alaska Beer & Barley Wine Festival - Anchorage, Alaska |
January 26 |
BJCP Examination - Juneau, Alaska |
February 11 |
Fur Rendezvous Homebrew Competition - Anchorage, Alaska |
March 30-April 1
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Talkeetna Beer Trippin' - Talkeetna, Alaska |
April 7 |
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April 8 |
BJCP Examination - Anchorage, Alaska |
April 21
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Taste of Alaska Beer Festival - Fairbanks, AK |
May 5 |
Zymurgist
Borealis National Homebrew Day Celebration/Big Brew - Fairbanks,
Alaska |
May 12 |
Goblets of Gold Mead Competition - Homer, Alaska |
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Late August |
Anchor Town Invitational Homebrew Competition - Anchorage, Alaska |
Mid-September |
Celestial Meads Equinox Mead Competition - Anchorage, Alaska |
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October 6 |
Great Alaska Beer
Train - On a train traveling from Anchorage to Portage, Alaska |
Mid-October |
Eagle River Brew Fest - Eagle River, Alaska |
Mid-Late October
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Southeast Alaska's Autumn Pour Homebrew
Competition - Juneau, Alaska |
Late November or Early December |
Humpy's Big Fish Homebrew Competition - Anchorage, Alaska |
If you have any information regarding a beer related event that should be listed in this calendar please contact Scott Stihler at stihlerunits@mosquitobytes.com or (907) 474-2138.
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