February 2017

Tasting Competition: 80% of overall score.  Judged by Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP) official judges.

Poster Competition: 20% of overall score.  Judged by AIChE professional members.

Grand Prize: Best cumulative score of the tasting and poster competitions.  Winning team members of the grand prize will receive a complimentary membership to AIChE for the 2025 dues year (up to $199 value per person).  Grand prize winners will also be featured in an AIChE webinar reviewing their winning brew processes.

Summary of all 2024 Competition Awards

• Grand Prize (1st Place) - 80% taste/20% poster
• 1st Runner-Up Grand Prize (2nd Place) - 80% taste/20% poster
• 2nd Runner-Up Grand Prize (3rd Place) - 80% taste/20% poster
• Best of Show (BoS) - Tasting Winner from BJCP judges
• Best Poster Presentation Winner – winner from poster judges
• Best Beer Name
• People's Choice Award – from guest judges
• Most Efficient Brew – The team with the best brewhouse efficiency number
• Biggest Beer – Beer with the highest starting gravity before fermentation
• Best Beer Label - to be shown on the poster, not the entry bottles

• Best New Team - BJCP Best of Show between teams of first time competitors

• Best of Special Style (BoSS) - BJCP Best of Show between teams competing with a third (Special Style*) entry

Tasting Competition

Brew your most creative and delicious beer in the beer style(s) of your team's choice, and bring it to be judged at the AIChE Beer Brewing Competition.  Teams may submit up to three styles of beer into the competition. Any beer style may be submitted into the competition so long as it is a Beer Judge Certification Program official beer style, however teams submitting three styles MUST brew the specified Special Style* as one of those three styles. 

See the BJCP Style Guidelines

Special Style

The Special Style Category and corresponding Best of Special Style (BoSS) Award are back in 2024! 

How it works: Teams submitting three styles MUST brew the specified Special Style as one of those three styles.  Only teams submitting three styles will be eligible to participate in the Special Style Category and to receive the Best of Special Style (BoSS) Award.

The 2024 Special Style is Czech Pale Lager, BJCP style 3A.

Note: Special Style entries are not eligible for the Best of Show (BoS) award.

Poster Competition

Each team, along with their brewed beer, must create a poster presentation that at least includes the following information for each beer brewed:

• Beer recipe
• Mass balances
• % ABV calculations
• Brewhouse efficiency calculations
• Process used to brew

Competition Rules

Read all competition rules

Note that that only professional members within the continental United States are eligible to participate.  Undergraduate students are not eligible.

Shipping Instructions

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Judging Information

This competition will be Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP) certified and will be organized in accordance with the BJCP Competition Handbook

Sample tasting score card

Sample poster score card

Brewhouse efficiency information

Registration deadline: September 1, 2024 extended to September 8, 2024!

Register here!

Each team must complete the online registration form and pay the registration fee.

If you have any questions, please contact the ABBC coordinators at brewbeer@aiche.org.