Invitation: Judge or Steward the 2025 National Homebrew Competition

Hello everyone. Now is your chance to be part of the world’s largest and longest running homebrew competition on the local level and connect in person with fellow homebrewers. Our seven first round locations will be judging thousands of entries March through April.

This is a formal invitation to apply to steward or judge in Chicago, Indianapolis, Longmont, New York, San Diego, Seattle and Tampa.

For the schedule go here, click on the location you want to participate in, scroll to the bottom and click on the ‘I want to volunteer’ link.

Cheers and the AHA and BJCP’s team of hundreds of volunteers looks forward to seeing you.

Julia
American Homebrewers Association Executive Director

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What is involved in being a steward? What kind of time commitment. Where in NYC is it being held? I can’t find a whole lot of details

It’s pretty chill. The main goal is to make it easy for judges to do their thing. The main thing is bringing the bottles to your judges.

It’s a little work, but a lot of fun. It’s a great way to make new friends, and learn how to make better beer.

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Hi JD. Location organizers will get details to those who fill out the volunteer application. Also from the Beer Judge Certification Program website (go here for full text)