BrewoVision preliminaries (UK, Wales and Northern Ireland)

Thank you for your interest in the BrewoVision preliminaries (UK, Wales and Northern Ireland) organized by London Amateur Brewers.

You only need to register your information once and can return to this site to enter more brews or edit the brews you've entered. You can even pay your entry fees online if you wish.

Entry Registration is Open

45 entries have been added to the system as of 00:53, BST, Wednesday 6 August, 2025. There is a limit of 100 entries for this competition.

19 paid entries are in the system as of 00:53, BST, Wednesday 6 August, 2025. There is a limit of 100 paid entries for this competition.

To add your entries into the system, please proceed through the registration process or log in if you already have an account.

Judge and Steward Registration is Open

If you have not registered and are willing to be a volunteer, please register.

If you have registered, log in and then choose Edit Account from the My Account menu indicated by the icon on the top menu.

Rules

Welcome to the first BrewoVision Homebrew Competition 2025.

NOTE THAT CATEGORY WINNERS WILL BE ASKED TO SEND ANOTHER 10 BOTTLES TO A COLLECTION POINT IN LONDON FOR THE FINALS ON 04/10/25

This is the preliminary competition for England, Wales and Northern Ireland where homebrewers from different regions/clubs across Europe will compete for the crown of European champion.

Winners of each category will progress to compete against regions and homebrew clubs across Europe. The finals will be held a month later on 4 October 2025 organised online by the Panomaju homebrew club in Finland where a champion region/club will be crowned European champion for 2025.

Details of the final can be found below in the Info->Circuit Qualification section. We will gather socially to choose our favourites.

Winners of each category will be asked to provide a further 10 bottles of the same beer to be sent to the other regions/clubs participating. Other regions for 2025 are Scotland, Republic of Ireland, Finland, Poland and Croatia. Each region/club will receive 2 bottles from each category used to decide the European winner. If the winner cannot provide a further 10 bottles, then the 2nd place winner in that category will be asked, and so on.

There are 5 categories: 1)Pale European Lager, 2)Pale Belgian Beer, 3)IPA, 4)Dark Strong Ales and 5)Sour beers.

The organisers have asked that the five category winners are all different entrants, therefore if one entrant wins more than one category, then they will be asked which winning beer to concede to the 2nd in place to be sent to the finals.

Score sheets and written feedback are provided on each entry. Rosettes are awarded in each of 5 categories.

This competition is open to any amateur homebrewer age 18 or older and living in and/or a member of a homebrew club located in England, Wales or Northern Ireland.

All mailed entries must be received at the mailing location by the shipping deadline - please allow for shipping time.

All entries will be picked up from drop-off locations the day of the drop-off deadline.

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-categorised entries, mailed entries that are not received by the entry deadline, or entries that arrived damaged.

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.

The competition committee reserves the right to combine overall style 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 Category judging will be determined by a Best of Category panel based on a second judging of the top winners, similar to a mini-BOS format. There will be no Best of Show for this preliminary competition.

Bottles will not be returned to entrants.

Entry Acceptance Rules

Number of Bottles Required Per Entry: 2

NOTE THAT CATEGORY WINNERS WILL BE ASKED TO SEND ANOTHER 10 BOTTLES TO A COLLECTION POINT IN LONDON FOR THE FINALS ON 04/10/25.

Postage for the additional 10 entries and sending them to the other clubs/regions will be paid. We'll be in touch with the 5 category winners to arrange this.

Volume required (per entry) but bring more if you like:

2 bottles or cans of volume between 330-500ml. Please use the same shape/capacity vessel and same bottle-top colour for both bottles/cans of a single entry if possible as this makes it easier for us to sort, store and identify entries. Please do not enter bottles/cans with volumes below 330ml (to ensure there is enough to judge and present). Please do not enter bottles/cans with volume >500ml or bottles that exceed 28cm in height when capped, as outsize vessels are difficult for us to store in the limited cold storage space available to us ahead of judging and tasting.

As this is a home brew competition and festival only one bottle/can is certain to be judged.  

The remainder will be available for sampling to all attendees after judging in a festival type format.

One bottle/can will be judged in the first round. A second, fresh, bottle might be judged if the beer progresses to Best of Category.

Remaining bottles/cans that did not progress to Best of Category and the remaining beer not assessed during Best of Category judging will be available for sampling after the event. You're more than welcome to attend, try your own and other entries, and bring along extra. Any extra bottles may be labelled as you wish.

Empty or unopened bottles/cans will not be returned. They can be collected at the end of the event, from 5PM. If not collected or drunk at event, they become organiser/judge rewards.

Labelling Bottles and Cans

Print out an entry label from this site and then attach to each bottle/can WITH CLEAR PACKING TAPE. 

No other label or identifiable information should be present. All requisite paperwork must be submitted with each entry and can be printed directly from this website. 

Be meticulous about noting any special ingredients that must be specified on the entry system where required. Failure to note such ingredients may impact the judges' scoring of your entry.

ALL ENTRIES MUST BE BOXED, EVEN WHEN DELIVERING IN PERSON. This is to enable easy storage and movement and reduces the risk of breakages and loss.

For any queries, in the first instance contact the Competition Organisers

Competition Officials

You can send an email to any of the following individuals via Contact.

• Jacques Marais — Competition Coordinator
• Serge Savin — Head Judge