Thank you for your interest in the Tennessee Championship of Beers organized by Tennessee Valley Homebrewers, Maryville, Tennessee.

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

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

Only commercial breweries licensed with the TTB can enter.

Only breweries located in Tennessee at the time of the competition can enter.

“Commercially Available” beers are the only eligible beers. This means that the beer is currently or has been available for sale to the public within six months preceding the competition date.

There are no entry caps from each brewery. Each brewery can enter as many beers as they wish.

A limit of 300 total beers for TCOB will be imposed for 2024. The first 300 beers registered AND PAID will be allotted the slots for judging. If you register beers and do not pay for the entry before all paid slots are taken, your entry will be removed from registration and you will be notified by email.

Best of Show - One or more judge pairs will evaluate your beer, judging it to the 2021 BJCP guidelines for the style you enter it has. Those same judge pairs, after judging all the beers in that category, will determine the top 3 beers at that table. The top beer at each table will then go to the Best of Show table. Here, 3-5 high ranking BJCP judges, Certified Cicerones, or qualified Professional Brewers will judge the top beers at each table and select the top 3 beers overall for the competition.

TCOB Brewery of the Year - For each medal you receive, you will get a certain amount of points. Each medal has a corresponding point allotted (Bronze – 1 point, Silver – 2 points, Gold – 3 points). Best of Show medals will also have points allotted (3rd BOS – 1 point, 2nd BOS – 2 points, 1st BOS – 3 points). The brewery with the most cumulative points will win TN Championship of Beers Brewery of the Year.

TCOB Cidery of the Year - For each medal you receive, you will get a certain amount of points. Each medal has a corresponding point allotted (Bronze – 1 point, Silver – 2 points, Gold – 3 points). Best of Show medals will also have points allotted (3rd BOS – 1 point, 2nd BOS – 2 points, 1st BOS – 3 points). The cidery with the most cumulative points will win TN Championship of Beers Cidery of the Year.

If assistance is required to determine which category a beer should be entered, please contact Joe Edidin at joe.edidin@gmail.com

All mailed entries must be received at the dropoff location by the entry deadline.

The competition organizers are not responsible for miscategorized entries, 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 in accordance with the 2021 BJCP Style Guidelines. The average of the scores will rank each entry in its category.

The Best of Show judging will be determined by a Best of Show panel based on a second judging of the top winners.

Bottles will not be returned to entrants.

Have more questions? Check out the FAQ Page.

Entry Acceptance Rules

Number of Bottles Required Per Entry: 3

Each entry will consist of three (3) bottles/cans

One of the following formats will be acceptable.

Three (3) 12 oz. bottles/cans

22oz/500ml/750ml bottles are accepted. Three (3) of these will be required for judging

Glass Growlers are accepted but WILL NOT BE RETURNED! (The logistics and shipping costs are too much). If you send Growlers, we only need 2 per entry.

No packaging/bottles will be returned.

Competition Official

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

• Joe Edidin — Competition Coordinator

Sponsors

Tennessee Valley Homebrewers is proud to have the following sponsors for the Tennessee Championship of Beers.

Tri-Hop Brewery

205 Court St., Maryville, TN 37804