MCAB VIII Entry Rules

Qualifying Brewers
Brewers who are certified as having won first place in a MCAB Qualifying Style Category at a MCAB Qualifying Event.

• Entrants may enter the MCAB only in the Qualifying Style Category for which they have been certified as a Qualifying Event winner.
  
  
• Entrants may enter only ONE beer per Qualifying Style Category regardless of how many times they qualify.
  
  
• The entry may be any subcategory of the Qualifying Style Category for which the brewer has been certified as a Qualifying Event winner. (In other words, you may enter an Oatmeal Stout if you qualified with a Dry Stout)
  
  
• For MCAB VIII, the 2004 BJCP Styles 1 - 19 are qualifying styles.
  
  
• If the Qualifying Event (QE) has combined any categories, the QE must provide the MCAB organizer with the highest placing (or scoring) beer from each MCAB Qualifying Style. (Example: Amber and Dark European Lager categories are combined, an Oktoberfest places first, the next highest placing Dark Lager must be reported as the Dark Lager MCAB qualifier for that QE.)
  
  
• If the Qualifying Event (QE) has split any categories, the QE must provide the MCAB organizer with the beer that will represent the MCAB Qualifying Style for the split category. (Example: Stout category is split into Stouts and RIS, the judges must decide which 1st place beer will represent the Stout Category in the MCAB. This designation must be done at the time of judging.)
  
  
• If a QE certifies a team of brewers as having won first place in a Qualifying Style, the team shall be considered a single entrant for the MCAB. However, all members of the team must complete and sign the entry form.
  
  
• Each MCAB Entrant will receive an email with necessary information to enter the competition.

Note: Category 22 "Smoked and Wood Aged Beers" will be eligible for MCAB IX Qualifying Events. MCAB VIII only will include categories 1-19

Entry Requirements:
Failure to timely submit the beers and all entry materials shall be grounds for the MCAB organizers, in their sole discretion, to disqualify an Entrant from the MCAB.

• Entry window: February 22, 2006 – March 4, 2006. Extension to these deadlines may be granted at the sole discretion of the MCAB organizers.
  
  
• Two (2) unmarked brown or green 10 - 14 ounce bottles. Bottles should have no raised lettering and bottle caps should be plain or blacked out. Raised lettering that is obviously a manufacturing or date codes (example 34ZZER-5) are permitted. EZ-Cap (Grolsch) style bottles will not be accepted.
  
  
• There is a fee of $5 per entry for qualified brewers to enter MCAB VIII. Checks should be made out to Curt Stock.
  
  
• It is the entrant's responsibility to enter their beer in the correct category. The competition organizers will NOT re-classify an entry.
  
  
• Each bottle must have a Bottle ID Label attached with a rubber band (no tape or glue) and each entry must be accompanied by an Entry Form (with entry fee) also attached to one of the bottles with a rubber band. The recipe portion of the entry form is optional. However, the brewer contact and style information portion of the entry form IS NOT optional.
  
  
• Submission of the entry form indicates that each Entrant to certifies that (1) the brewer did, in fact, brew the beers entered in the MCAB; (2) the beers entered in the MCAB were brewed legally and according to all state and local laws applicable to the brewer, and (3) the brewer entered beers that were not brewed using any commercial brewery.

Shipping Information:
Entries must be sent to...

Northern Brewer
c/o MCAB VIII [or c/o Curt Stock for Canadian entries]
1945 W. Co Rd C2
Roseville, MN 55113

651-644-6098 (use for shipping purposes only)

Judging:
MCAB VIII will take place on March 11, 2006, at the Happy Gnome in St. Paul, Minnesota.

• Entries will be judged at the MCAB Competition according to 2004 BJCP guidelines. Medals will be awarded for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in each Qualifying Style.
• Entries will be judged by BJCP judges.
• First Place winners in each Qualifying Style will advance to Best of Show judging. Decisions of the judges and MCAB organizers on awards shall be final.
• Contact Curt Stock, the organizer, if you are interested in judging or stewarding.

The Fine Print:
An entrant to the MCAB must comply with all applicable state and national laws regarding the home production of beer, including age restrictions and general prohibitions. Beers entered in the MCAB must not be produced using any commercial brewery. This term is defined as any brewing that takes place (1) on the premises of any brewery operating under a brewing permit issued by the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (or the Canadian equivalent of the BATF), or any state or provincial commercial brewing permit or license, or (2) on a pilot brewery owned or operated by any commercial or educational entity, regardless of location. The following are NOT considered to be prohibited commercial production: (1) use of grain milled on commercial equipment, (2) use of yeast obtained, in any quantity, from a commercial brewery, or (3) beer brewed at "brew on premises" operations if the entrant is permitted to and does in fact perform 100% of the labor required in all aspects of the brewing operations.

[updated 12/30/2005]

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