2025 Q4: OMCU Club Comp: Pilsner vs Helles Info
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Rules
This competition is an Orange County Mash Ups Club Compeition and open to Paid club members only. An entrant is the one or more people submitting an entry. Member(s) of an entrant must have actively contributed to brewing, fermenting, and bottling an entry. 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
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.
All entries become the property of the Orange County Mash Ups and used or unused bottles will not be returned.
Qualified judging of all entries is the primary goal of our event. A panel of at least two judges will judge each entry according to the sub-category in which it was entered. Queued Judging will be employed for large flight, with a mini-BOS round. Each flight will have at least one BJCP ranked judge. No judge will be assigned to a category for which they are entrants
Judging will be based on the 2021 BJCP Guidelines http://bjcp.org/stylecenter.php
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.
BJCP 2021 Judging Styles
If a style's name is hyperlinked, it has specific entry requirements. Select or tap on the name to view the subcategory's requirements.
| 4A Munich Helles | 5D German Pils |
Entry Acceptance Rules
Number of Bottles Required Per Entry: 2
Each entry will consist of capped bottles that are void of all identifying information, including labels and embossing. Printed caps are allowed, but must be blacked out completely.
12oz brown glass bottles / 16oz cans ONLY
Bottles will not be returned to contest entrants.
All requisite paperwork must be submitted with each entry and can be printed directly from this website. Entry paperwork should be attached to bottles by the method specified on the bottle label.
Be meticulous about noting any special ingredients that must be specified. Failure to note such ingredients may impact the judges' scoring of your entry.
Each submission must submit two bottles for each submission to be accepted for judging
This competition is NOT open to shipping.
Judging Sessions and Dates
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Judging Sessions and Dates
Main Judging Day
11/03/2025 4:00 PM, PST.
Account Registration Closed
Account registrations accepted 09/08/2025 12:00 AM, PDT through 11/03/2025 4:00 PM, PST.
Entry Registration Closed
Entry Drop-Off Closed
Please pay attention to the notes provided for each drop-off location. There could be earlier deadlines for some drop-off locations listed, particular hours when entries are accepted, certain individuals to leave your entries with, etc. All entrants are responsible for reading the information provided by the organizers for each drop-off location.