American Ale and Lagers Mini Competition Info
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Rules
GoldClub Mini Competition.
This competition is a BJCP sanctioned competition and is open to any amateur home brewer age 18 or older. The competition is free for paid GoldClub members and $5 / entry for non-members (bring cash when you drop off your entries). If you are a paid member then no fee will be required for your entries - just submit them without completing any payment.
If you haven't heard of the GoldClub, we're the Gold Coast's first homebrew club. We hold monthly meetings at Burleigh Brewing and occassional social events, to find out more please join our Facebook Group.
All mailed entries must be received at the mailing location by the entry deadline - please allow for shipping time.
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 miscategorized entries, mailed 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. The average of the scores will rank each entry in its category. Each flight will have at least one BJCP judge.
Brewers are not limited to one entry in each category but may only enter each subcategory once. For example, participants may enter a Belgian Pale (16B) and Belgian Saison (16C), but may not enter two Saisons, even if they are different brews. Royal Rumble mini competition is only permitted to enter one beer. Entries are to be dropped at the club meeting as per the club emails that have been sent out.
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.
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.
BJCP 2021 Styles Accepted
A list of the styles that are accepted for this competition is available at https://comp.thegoldclub.beer/entry
If a style is missing then please contact the competition co-ordinator.
Prizes
To Be Advised
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.
| 1A American Light Lager | 1B American Lager | 1C Cream Ale |
| 1D American Wheat Beer | 2A International Pale Lager | 2B International Amber Lager |
| 2C International Dark Lager | 3A Czech Pale Lager | 3B Czech Premimum Pale Lager |
| 3C Czech Amber Lager | 3D Czech Dark Lager | 4A Munich Helles |
| 4B Festbier | 4C Helles Bock | 5A German Leichtbier |
| 5B Kölsch | 5C German Helles Exportbier | 5D German Pils |
| 6A Märzen | 6B Rauchbier | 6C Dunkels Bock |
| 7A Vienna Lager | 7B Altbier | 8A Munich Dunkel |
| 8B Schwarzbier | 9A Doppelbock | 9B Eisbock |
| 9C Baltic Porter | 10A Weissbier | 10B Dunkels Weissbier |
| 10C Weizenbock | 12B Australian Sparkling Ale | 18A Blonde Ale |
| 18B American Pale Ale | 19A American Amber Ale | 19B California Common |
| 19C American Brown Ale | 21A American IPA | 21B Specialty IPA |
| 21B1 Belgian IPA | 21B2 Black IPA | 21B3 Brown IPA |
| 21B4 Red IPA | 21B5 Rye IPA | 21B6 White IPA |
| 21B7 Brut IPA | 21C Hazy IPA | 22A Double IPA |
| 22B American Strong Ale | 24A Witbier | 27A1 Kellerbier |
| 27A2 Kentucky Common | 27A5 Piwo Grodziskie | LSX2 IPA Argenta |
| LSX3 Italian Grape Ale | LSX5 New Zealand Pilsner |
Number of Bottles Required Per Entry: 1
Judging Sessions and Dates
Cary's House
Saturday 28 March, 2026 2:30 PM, AEST
Awards
The awards will take place once judging is completed at the following month's GoldClub meeting at Burleigh Brewing. Date and location to be advised.
Places will be awarded to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in each category/table.
Any beers scoring 39 points or above will advance to the Best of Show (BOS) round with a single, overall Best of Show beer selected.
Additional prizes may be awarded to those winners present at the awards ceremony at the discretion of the competition organizers.
Both score sheets and awards will be available for pick up that night after the ceremony concludes. Awards and score sheets not picked up will be mailed back to participants. Results will be posted to the competition web site after the ceremony concludes.
Awards Ceremony
TBA on Date and Location
Friday 17 April, 2026 6:00 PM, AEST
Past Winners
Judging Sessions and Dates
Cary's House
28/03/2026 2:30 PM, AEST.
Account Registration Closed
Account registrations accepted 01/01/2026 8:00 AM, AEST through 28/03/2026 2:30 PM, AEST.
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.