Commander SAAZ Interplanetary Hombrew Blastoff 2008
Fab Fourteen!!
The Commander SAAZ Interplanetary Homebrew Blastoff is an AHA and BJCP sanctioned homebrewed beer, mead, and cider competition sponsored by the Space coast Associates for the Advancement of Zymurgy (SAAZ).
For information on early round judging please check our website (http://www.saaz.org) The final Judging will begin at 9:00 A.M on Saturday, Sept 27th at the Holiday Inn Ocean Front in Cocoa Beach. The Awards Ceremony and Splashdown Party will take place that evening at 7:00 P.M. at the same location. Judges will not be allowed to judge in categories that they have entered.
ELIGIBILITY
C.S.I.H.B. is open to all homebrewers everywhere. All entries must have been brewed at home. Entries brewed at commercial establishments are ineligible.
HOW TO ENTER
All Beer entries must be in 10-16 oz. brown or green glass. No bottles with ink name-brand lettering (i.e. Corona), or glued on paper labels. Raised NO DEPOSIT, or manufacturing codes are acceptable. Beers must be capped with crown caps. Meads & Ciders may be entered in 6-16oz bottles. Grolsch-type swing tops are acceptable for meads and ciders.
Bottles not meeting these requirements will be disqualified. An entry consists of 3 bottles. Each on-line entry costs $6.00. (Entries into the Rocket Fuel. specialty category will be 2 bottles and cost $5.00 per entry.) Paper entries will not be accepted. All entries must be entered via the online entry system. Make checks or money orders payable to SAAZ. Please attach your check to one of your entries with a rubber band. PayPal payments are also accepted for on-line entries via the website! The online web enntry system is available here.
Attach a completed bottle I.D. form to each bottle with a rubber band. You will be disqualified if you use glue or tape to secure the forms!
Ship entries to:
SAAZ
C/o Chet Sparks
2945 Dairy Rd
Titusville, FL 32796
Shipped or local drop off entries must be received by the Registrar by Sept 10th!!!
OUT OF STATE ENTRIES
Commander SAAZ has always valued the diverse entries we receive from all over the country. To help out our homebrew breathren from outside Florida we will be giving a $1.00 per entry discount to entries shipped from out of state. This means that regular entries from out of state will be $5.00 each and Rocket Fuel entries from out of state will be $4.00 each!!
CATEGORIES
All BJCP beer and mead categories and associated sub-categories from the 2008 BJCP style guidelines will be accepted in this competition. Complete style guidelines can be found at the BJCP site: http://www.bjcp.org. Entrants are responsible for placing their entry in the proper category. No entries will be re-classified. With fruit beer, herb beer, specialty beer, smoked beer and meads, be sure to list the special ingredients, i.e. cherries, coriander, smoked grains, honey, molasses… etc.
All 28 categories of beer, mead, cider and their associated sub-categories will be accepted. NOTE:Categories 1-19 are restricted to two entries per sub-category by Florida Homebrew Circuit rules. Every beer will be judged to the style that you designate on your entry forms. Any entry that has been disqualified for rules infractions will be judged, but will not be eligible for awards!
Additionally the Commander SAAZ Rocket Fuel Award specialty category has become a permanent category. The rules for the Rocket Fuel category are pretty simple. The beer must be based on a BJCP beer/mead/cider category, however, the sky’s no limit as far as alcohol content. A minimum of 10% ABV is required to enter the Rocket Fuel Category. Beers entered in the Rocket Fuel category may also be entered under a regular BJCP category as well. NOTE: Entries may not be fortified with distilled spirits!!
Categories may be combined or split at the discretion of the Competition Organizer and the Judge Director. If an insufficient quantity of entries is received in a given category, then those entries will be moved to combined categories to be judged according to the category originally entered.
AWARDS AND PRIZES
First, Second, and Third place medals will be awarded for each category, however entries must score a minimum of 25 points to be eligible for a medal. Winners will also receive a fabulous prize donated by one of our gracious sponsors.
First place winners of each category will advance to the Best of Show Round to compete for the Commander’s Cosmic Trophy, coveted by Rocket Scientists and Homebrewers throughout the known galaxy. Additionally first place winners in MCAB categories (see http://hbd.org/mcab for details) will be eligible for the MCAB XI competition. Additionally this year Commander SAAZ is a qualifying event for the 2009 International Home Mead Makers Competition (http://www.hmmc.meadfest.com/). This means that the gold medal winning meads from Commander SAAZ will be inserted directly into the second round at the HMMC! So now Commander SAAZ is a qualifying competition to both the most prestigious beer and mead events in the country!
A separate Best of Show Cosmic Trophy will also be awarded for meads/ciders. A separate prize will also be awarded to the winner of this year’s Rocket Fuel Award.
GOOD LUCK!