Fruit Cup 2024

Thank you for your interest in the Fruit Cup 2024 organized by So Cal Cerveceros, Arts District Brewing Company .

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

0 entries have been added to the system as of 6:20 AM, PDT, Friday, April 19, 2024. There is a limit of 100 entries for this competition.

0 paid entries are in the system as of 6:20 AM, PDT, Friday, April 19, 2024. There is a limit of 30 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

The SCC Fruit Cup 2024 Homebrew Competion is a great opportunity to have your beers judged within BJCP regulations. All entries must contain fruit as per the accepted styles on information page. If entering beer category 28C Wild Specialty Beer, it must contain fruit.

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.). 

An entrant is one or more people submitting an entry. Member(s) of an entrant must have actively contributed to brewing, fermenting, and bottling an entry. Every member must be at least 21 years of age. An entrant may not be an entire brew club. Competition staff, judges, and stewards are permitted to be entrants. Professional Brewers are permitted to be entrants as long as the entry was not brewed on commercial equipment.

At this time we are limiting total entries to 30, but will re-evaluate if, (1) we reach 30 paid entries (2) we have enough judges to raise the entry limit.

The competition organizers are not responsible for mis-categorized entries or entries that arrived damaged.

The competition organizers reserve the right to combine overall 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.

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. 

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

Mail-in entries will be accepted.

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

Submitted bottles/cans become property of the competition.

Entry Acceptance Rules

Number of Bottles Required Per Entry: 2

When entering beer information you MUST include: base style, fruits/spices/specialty adjunct ingredients used and any possible allergens. 

Each entry is $12.

Each entry will consist of capped bottles or sealed cans that are void of all identifying information, including labels and embossing. 

Two 12oz brown glass bottles are preferred; however, green will be accepted. Swing top bottles will likewise be accepted, as well as 12oz and 16oz cans. 

If mailing in your entries we encourage you to add cold packs and protective padding in addition to speedy shipping. (The competition organizers are not responsible for entries that arrive damaged or entries that arrive outside of the scheduled timeframe.)

Also, we recommend to everyone to put your printed out entry papers in a ziplock bag and double rubber band it to your bottles/cans. 

Because of the nature of the contest, special categories may be used depending on the number of entrants.

Submitted bottles/cans become property of the competition.

Bottles/cans will not be returned to contest entrants.

Competition Officials

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

• Jay Perez — Director Of Competitions
• Head Steward — Competition Head Steward