Kona Brewers Festival Homebrew Competition

The Kona Brewers Festival Homebrew Competition is a local competition sanctioned by the American Homebrewers Association recognizing the most outstanding homebrewed beer, mead and cider being produced by amateur brewers. Judges come from all over the United States to evaluate the entries using the AHA National Style Guidelines (BJCP) for 28 different styles of beers, meads and ciders.

Anyone is welcome to enter. Most of the entries come from the Big Island, but there are also entries from other Hawaiian Islands, from the mainland U.S. and a few international entries. To enter you must send in an entry form, $7 and two bottles of your beer for each entry. You will receive a score sheet with an evaluation of each entry.

The Best of Show winners - in both beer and meads/ciders categories - will have his/her names and brews engraved on a plaque and mounted to the perpetual koa barrel trophy at Kona Brewing Company's Brewery & Pub in Kailua-Kona. Ribbons with medallions are awarded to all 28 categories, for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place.

For more information, winners list for 2011 and entry forms, please go to http://konabrewcontest.googlepages.com/ or phone Karen Gast at 808-264-8889.