Are you ready to showcase your craft, support a great cause, and compete for glory?
The 2nd annual Star City Open is a charity homebrewing competition organized by Star City Brewing. This event will bring together the best amateur brewers (age 21 and up) to showcase their passion, creativity, and skill—all while supporting The Artemis Center of Dayton, Ohio. The 2024 Best of Show Beer was “Alter Ego” an Altbier brewed by Tim McKee from the Cincinnati Malt Infusers club.
The Awards Ceremony will be held on Saturday, March 22, 2025 2:00pm at Star City Brewing. 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.
Rules
This competition is American Homebrewers Association (AHA) sanctioned and open to any amateur homebrewer age 21 or older.
This is a charity-benefit competition and all net proceeds will be donated to The Artemis Center of Dayton, Ohio.
All entries must be received at the drop-off/mailing location by the deadline. Hand-carried entries will only be accepted on the day of competition by out-of-town judges/stewards by prior request. Please allow adequate shipping time for any mailed entries.
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 organizers are not responsible for mis-categorized entries, mailed entries that are not received by the entry deadline, or entries that arrived damaged.
The competition organizers 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.
Brewers are not limited to one entry in each category but may only enter each subcategory once. There is a $10.00 fee per entry.
The competition committee reserves the right to combine categories based on number of entries. All possible effort 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. The winner of the Best of Show beer will be brewed at Star City with the winning brewer if available, at a later date to be served at the following year’s competition..
Bottles will not be returned to entrants.
