West Coast Best Coast 2025 Info
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Rules
This competition is open to any amateur homebrewer age 18 or older. NB This competition is only for amateur brewers, if you own or run a commercial brewery then please do not enter as you will be disqualified. If you are a brewer at a commercial brewery owned by someone else then you are free to enter any beer you have personally brewed at home, however, may be excluded from winning some prizes at the discretion of the company offering the prize, e.g. a brew day at a commercial brewery.
For brewery owners and commerical releases please see details of our Pro-Brewer and Commercial cateogory details lower down this page.
All mailed entries must be received at the mailing location by the shipping deadline - please allow for shipping time.
Shipping / Drop Off Info:
Entries must arrive between 3 and 13 June.
Entries received before / after this may not be judged.
Shipping / Drop Off Location
Fraser Withers
c/o Noble Green Wines,
153-155 High Street,
Hampton Hill,
TW12 1NL
Monday: Closed
Tuesday - Saturday: 10am - 7pm
Sunday: 11am - 5pm
Where possible please add opening times to the delivery notes so couriers know when the shop is open.
With the shipping location being closed on Mondays please try to ship to arrive Tuesday to Friday with your courier.
If delivery is attempted on a Monday then you will need to arrange redelivery, we won't able to to collect from a courier depot on your behalf.
For the recipient email please add hello@beerboars.co.uk if the courier system asks for one.
Please do not ship / drop off entries at Jawbone Brewing where the judging is taking place.
All entry places have now been taken, if you've missed out then please email hello@beerboars.co.uk to be added to a waiting list and we'll be in touch if any entries open up due to cancelations or we add more places.
Entries may be edited up until the shipping window opens. Reminders will be sent closer to the time, but please ensure to add hello@beerboars.co.uk to your safe enderr list to avod emails being sent to you spam / junk folders.
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 organisers are not responsible for mis-categorised entries, mailed entries that are not received by the entry deadline, or entries that arrived damaged.
The competition organisers 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. The average of the scores will rank each entry in its category. Each flight will have at least one BJCP judge.
Entries will be assessed against the BJCP Style Guidelines 2021 available via this link PDF.
However, the emphasis is on West Coast styles and the judges will be scoring in favour of beers that have a signature “west coast” expression - so please take note when selecting your hops.
What defines a West Coast style compared with other IPA or APA styles? There isn’t an exact BJCP definition but will be looking for clear, bitter and hoppy. Flavour and aroma wise we typically expect one or more of pine, resin, citrus and tropical fruit.
Brewers are not limited to one entry in each category but may only enter each subcategory once.
For styles that are not currently included in the BJCP guidelines, including but not limited to West Coast Pils, TIPA & QIPA please enter in the 'Other West Coast Styles' category. Unlike other categories, you may enter more than one beer in this sub-category up to your entry limit. However, they should be distinct styles from one another. For example a TIPA & Black TIPA, or a TIPA & West Coast Pils.
The competition committee reserves the right to combine overall style categories based on the number of entries. All possible efforts 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.
Bottles will not be returned to entrants.
Entry fees are not refundable.
Pro-Brewers / Commerical Brewery Competition
Pro-Brewers / Commerical Breweries may enter our separate Pro-Brewer West Coast Competition. These may include commerical releases, experimental or pilot kit batches not yet released. This will be run separate to the homebrew competition with all entries being judges in one category. Pro-Brewer entries are not eligable for prizes or best in show places, but will receive medals and or certificates for winning entries.
The Pro-Brewer category is free for breweries to enter, but we would require 6-12 cans / bottles of the beer being entered. 2-3 cans / bottles will be used for judging. The remainder would be used for prizes for winning homebrew entries.
Pro-brewers may enter an unlimited number of beers, however we would still require 6-12 cans / bottles per beer entered.
If you wish to enter this category please do not sign up using the main entry form, please email hello@beerboars.co.uk for more information.
BJCP 2021 Judging Styles
If a style's name is hyperlinked, it has specific entry requirements. Select or tap on the name to view the subcategory's requirements.
| 18A Blonde Ale | 18B American Pale Ale | 19A American Amber Ale |
| 19C American Brown Ale | 21A American IPA | 21B Specialty IPA |
| 21B2 Black IPA | 21B3 Brown IPA | 21B4 Red IPA |
| 21B5 Rye IPA | 22A Double IPA | PRO1 Pro-Brewers / Commercial (Custom Style) |
| WC1 Other West Coast Styles (Custom Style) | WC2 West Coast Pilsner (Custom Style) | WC3 Cold IPA (Custom Style) |
| WC4 West Coast Quad IPA (Custom Style) | WC5 Session IPA (Custom Style) |
Number of Bottles Required Per Entry: 2
Judging Sessions
Main Judging Session
Saturday 21 June, 2025 10:00, BST
Best of Show
The awards ceremony will take place once the judging is completed.
Places will be awarded to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in each category/table at the judges' discretion.
The 1st place entry in each category will advance to the Best of Show (BOS) round with a single, overall Best of Show beer selected.
Additional prizes may be awarded to those winners present at the awards ceremony at the discretion of the competition organisers.
Awards will be available for pick up that night after the ceremony concludes. Awards not picked up will be mailed to participants. Results will be posted to the competition website after the ceremony concludes.
Entries from outisde the UK are permitted, however physical prizes may not be shipped outside of the UK.
Awards
The awards ceremony will take place once judging is completed.
Places will be awarded to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in each category/table.
The 1st place entry in each category will advance to the Best of Show (BOS) round with a single, overall Best of Show beer selected.
Additional prizes may be awarded to those winners present at the awards ceremony at the discretion of the competition organizers.
Both score sheets and awards will be available for pick up that night after the ceremony concludes. Awards and score sheets not picked up will be mailed back to participants. Results will be posted to the competition web site after the ceremony concludes.
Awards Ceremony
Jawbone Brewing
Unit C, 1 Strawberry Vale, Twickenham, TW1 4RY
Saturday 21 June, 2025 15:15, BST
Judging Sessions
Main Judging Session
21/06/2025 10:00, BST.
Account Registration Closed
Account registrations accepted 01/01/2025 00:00, GMT through 21/06/2025 10:00, BST.
Registrations for judges or stewards accepted 01/01/2025 00:00, GMT through 07/06/2025 13:00, BST.