Thank you for your interest in the All American ACB Showdown organized by Anglian Craft 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.

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Rules

The ACB All American Homebrew Competition is a BJCP sanctioned competition open to competitors aged 18 or over, where your homebrewed beers are assessed by qualified judges against current style guidelines.

You can use this site to register for the competition, pay your entry fees and submit details of your beers. Once registered you can log in anytime to enter additional brews, or edit details of those you've already entered up until the cut-off times/dates

Detailed and constructive feedback by qualified or experienced judges is a key goal of our event. Judges will evaluate and score each entry. Score sheets and written feedback will be provided on each entry. 

Beers will be assessed against BJCP Style Guidelines 2021 available via this ......

Prizes will be awarded to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd placed beers in each category. The Best of Show beer will be determined by a Best of Show panel based on a second judging of a fresh bottle of the winning beer from each table.

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. 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 competition organizers are not responsible for mis-categorized entries. 

Eligibility

This competition is open to any amateur homebrewer, worldwide. All entries must be handcrafted products, containing ingredients available to the general public, and made using private equipment by hobbyist brewers at home. Those made in commercial establishments, including brew-on-premise establishments, are not eligible.

Competition Organizers, staff, judges and stewards may enter the competition. Measures are in place to ensure fair, anonymous, judging. Judges and stewards will not be assigned to categories that they have entered. 

Where

Briarbank Brewing Company, 70 Fore Street, ipswich. IP4 1LB
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When

Judging commences - approx. 10am Saturday 16th November 2024
Awards Ceremony - approx. 6pm

Important Deadlines

Register online and pay for all entries by 18th October 2024 11:59 PM
Finalise your entries by 18th October 2024 11:59 PM
Delivery of entries by 8th November 2024 05:00 PM

Entry Cost 
Entry fee is £8 for the first entry. 2nd entries may be made available at a later date for a discounted cost.

Entry Acceptance Rules

Number of Bottles Required Per Entry: 2

Each entry will consist of two bottles, or cans, of between 330-500mL

330mL or 500mL brown glass bottles are preferred; however, green and clear glass will be accepted. PET and swing top bottles will likewise be accepted.

Bottles will not be returned to contest entrants.

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

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.

Entries not recieved by the shipping deadline date will not be entered into the competition. However we will endeavour to judge them at a later date and provided written feedback.

Competition Officials

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

• Nick Davis — Competition Organiser
• James Pettifor — Competition Organiser
• Tony Tilbury — Competition Staff

Sponsors

Anglian Craft Brewers is proud to have the following sponsors for the All American ACB Showdown.

Briarbank Brewery

Ipswich, Suffolk

When you’re looking for a great beer experience in Suffolk, look no further than the Briarbank Brewing Company. Set just moments from the historic waterfront, in the heart of Ipswich, our award-winning, independent microbrewery and bar was established in May 2013, and we’ve been creating beers ever since. Whether you’re dropping by to sample one of our year-round classics or seasonal beers in our first floor tap room or browsing our online shop to decide which of our beers to add to your mixed case, you’re sure to find a beer to suit your tastes. Always open to experimenting with flavour and technique, we’ve cultivated a great reputation for taste, and we’ve won numerous industry accolades, including a gold and a silver at the SIBA East Independent Keg Beer Awards 2022, plus a gold from the SIBA National Independent Beer Awards, which took place in 2022.

Grainfather

 

No one would say that brewing beer is easy, but we’ve developed the design and engineering from craft breweries to create homebrewing systems with an intuitive design that allow you to produce consistent brews, at home. We take the utmost pride in doing everything that we can do to empower every level of brewer to experiment, try something new and master every recipe. After all, we know first-hand the satisfaction that comes with brewing your own beer, sharing it with mates and inspiring other like-minded brewers to explore more of the craft. Our journey started in New Zealand with the Grainfather G30, but we soon decided that our brewing equipment was just too good not to share. Our head office is still based in New Zealand, but we’ve gone global and we now have a team of beer enthusiasts in Australia, Europe, the UK and the USA too. So, no matter where you are in the world we’re right there with you, offering expert guidance and knowledge, throughout every brew.

Inkbird

Shenzhen, China

We hold the faith that smart home products are NOT just cold electronics to meet our customers basic demand. but ALSO the partners to improve their smart home living. Thus. INKBIRD has been devoting itself to the smart home industry and taking improving customers' smart home living as its mission, since the date we established it. Home living is a journey to discover and enjoy the happiness of life and home time, along with INKBIRD. we will do this better.

The Malt Miller

Swindon

The Malt Miller was established in 2010 by Rob Neale, driven by his discovery of the joy of homebrewing beer. Rob’s passion for brewing the best beer at home and sourcing the finest ingredients directly from suppliers led to the founding of the business. This passion for freshness and high-quality ingredients, along with a commitment to serving the creative and enthusiastic homebrewing community, are the cornerstones of the business today. We continuously seek out the best items to stock, provide insightful and educational content, and ensure timely delivery of orders. As a business that prioritises people—both customers and team members—we want to give you a little insight into the awesome people behind each and every order you place

Crisp Malts

Great Ryburgh, Norfolk

We are Crisp Malt; a maltings run by real people, with real passion, and real knowledge. Since 1870, we’ve been making the finest malted barley for brewers and distillers all over the world, from our home maltings in Norfolk, England. Today, our Norfolk maltings is still our home, but we now have sites in Scotland, Suffolk, Poland, and Germany, all producing excellent malt for customers worldwide. Our tightknit network allows us to reach brewers and distillers from all corners of the globe, with our malt creating, ales from Nevada, stouts from Scotland, and whiskeys from Singapore. Crisp Malt is all about heart, heritage, and history, with longstanding crops over 60 years old, and employees close to their 50th year at Crisp. Our strong roots with the land and the people, is what sets up us for the future, to continue producing quality, local malt for all to enjoy. Get to know our team, get to know our products, and we look forward to getting to know you.

Artefact Brewing

Ixworth, Suffolk

Artefact Brewing is an artisan microbrewery run by husband and wife team, James and Kat. Based in a converted shipping container in Ixworth, near Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, James is a self-taught home brewer who’s hobby, essentially, got ‘out of control’! Seeing James’ talent / obsession for great-tasting craft beer growing, Kat encouraged James to move his brewing from their kitchen to a shipping container on her family farm, with hopes of future diversification. After a lengthy DIY conversion in 2019, the ‘test brewery’ (technically a nanobrewery) was ready to see if James could create something worth selling, before the pair took the plunge on a larger brewery setup. With a combination of hard work, beer geekery and luck, since then Artefact has built up a large, seasonal range, solid customer base and industry recognition – winning multiple awards and working with some great partners.

Colchester Brewery

Wakes Colne, Essex

Colchester Brewery is all about: Produce a range of characterful beers for drinkers in the Essex and its neighbouring counties Select other breweries for reciprocal trading, allowing publicans easy access to beers from outside the region Focus on pub and beer festival trade, complemented by a small amount of direct-to-retail Seek finance from friends, family and retained profits – no bank debt Small, approachable and friendly, offering a high quality of service and an alternative to the corporate images and approaches of larger breweries Be part of the local community through working with other local business and supporting charities and other good causes Traditional double drop fermentation as a key feature of the beer production, allowing for cleaner and easier-to-manage cask beers Focus on getting a fair price for a high quality and labour-intensive product.