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AIChE Beer Brewing Competition

                                                           

With the support of AIChE and the Young Professionals Committee, come showcase your chemical engineering skills by participating in the AIChE Beer Brewing Competition (ABBC). ABBC will allow AIChE entities (local sections, divisions, forums, etc.) to create teams of two to five U.S.-based professional members over the age of 21 (undergraduate students not eligible to participate), with at least one member under the age of 35, to brew their own beer in any BJCP style category. Professional beer tasting judges will then score beers according to a standard beer tasting rubric. Teams will also flex their chemical engineering muscles through a poster competition describing their processes and creative design that has gone into their brew. The prizes are big, the processes are batch, and the competition is exciting.

The fourth competition will be held on November 13, 2022 at the 2022 AIChE Annual Meeting.  

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Details
Award

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 2023 dues year ($199 value per person).  Grand prize winners will also be featured in an AIChE webinar reviewing their winning brew processes.

Summary of all 2022 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 1st time competitors

AdministratorsYoung Professionals Committee (YPC)
Nomination Instructions

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 offical beer style.  See the BJCP Style Guidelines

NEW this YEARthe BJCP welcomes 2 new brew styles: Meads & Ciders! Start brewing your beer today!

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

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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 competition procedures will be followed using the BJCP Competition Handbook.

Sample tasting score card

Sample poster score card

Brewhouse efficiency information

Registration deadline: September 30, 2022.

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.

 

Award winners

  • Biggest Beer

    2021
  • Best Beer Name

    2021
  • Best Beer Label

    2021
  • 2nd Runner-Up Grand Prize (3rd Place)

    2021
  • 1st Runner-Up Grand Prize (2nd Place)

    2021
  • People's Choice Award

    2021
  • Pharmaceutical Discovery, Development, and Manufacturing Forum (PD2M)
    Grand Prize (1st Place)

    2021
  • Pharmaceutical Discovery, Development, and Manufacturing Forum (PD2M)
    Best of Show from BJCP Judges

    2021
  • Cleveland Local Section - Miami University of Ohio
    Best Poster Presentation

    2021
  • Cleveland Local Section - Case Western Reserve University
    Best Newcomer Award

    2021
  • Cleveland Local Section - Case Western Reserve University
    Most Efficient Brew

    2021
  • Grand Prize 1st Runner Up

    2019
  • Best of Show from BJCP Judges

    2019
  • Grand Prize 2nd Runner Up

    2019
  • Best Poster Presentation

    2019
  • People’s Choice Award

    2019
  • Most Efficient Brew

    2019
  • Biggest Beer

    2019
  • Grand Prize

    2019
  • Best Beer Label

    2019
  • ChemStations Brewing
    Most Efficient Brew

    2018
  • Brewsburgh
    1st Runner-Up Grand Prize (2nd Place)

    2018
  • Brewsburgh
    People's Choice Award

    2018
  • Brewsburgh
    Best of Show

    2018
  • Double Dagger IPA
    Best Beer Name

    2018
  • Bad News Beers American IPA
    2nd Runner-Up Grand Prize (3rd Place)

    2018
  • Standard Boil Co. of New Jersey
    Best Poster Presentation

    2018
  • MMAIChE Saison
    Grand Prize (1st Place)

    2018
  • MMAIChE Beyond a Reasonable Stout
    Biggest Beer

    2018
  • Gangs of Brew York
    Best Beer Label

    2018
  • Gangs of Brew York
    Lightest Weight Beer

    2018
  • 321 Beer!
    Best Beer Name - Biggliest Beer

    2017
  • Fugacity Brew
    Dark & Malty Category 1st Place - The Rectifier

    2017
  • Fugacity Brew
    Best Seasonal Brew - Fester's Spicy Brew

    2017
  • Woo Pig Brewers
    Bright & Hoppy Category 3rd Place - Yellow Rock Blonde

    2017
  • Brewsburgh
    Best Poster Presentation 2nd Place

    2017
  • Northern California
    Public Choice Winner - Redwood IPA

    2017
  • MMAIChE
    Grand Prize and Bright & Hoppy Category 1st Place - Billy's Breakfast Bitter

    2017
  • MMAIChE
    Best Poster Presentation 3rd Place

    2017
  • MMAIChE
    Dark & Malty Category 3rd Place - Black Lagoon Porter

    2017
  • Standard Boil Co. of NJ
    Bright & Hoppy Category 2nd Place - Total Reflux

    2017
  • NMSBrew
    Dark & Malty Category 2nd Place - Adobe Brown Ale

    2017
  • Purbrew
    Best Poster Presentation 1st Place

    2017