BJCP Listed Competitions - 1st Quarter 2009

[brew captain]

See below for the registered competitions posted on the BJCP website for January thru March:

These are some of the best competitions of the year. Sam Adams, the Coconut Cup, AFC, Doug King, Kona, the Drunk Monk and our very own Patrick Rue with the Bruery hosting yet another comp.



01/05/2009
EHG's "light(er) color beers" competition
Edmonton, AB
Contact: Kurt Stenberg
Phone: 780-989-2546
Entry Fee: $2.00 EHG members, $5.00 non-members
Entry Deadline: 01/05/2009

01/09/2009
Big Beers, Belgians & Barleywines Homebrew Competition
Vail, CO
Contact: Laura Lodge
Phone: (970) 977-0100
Entry Fee: $5/entry
Entry Deadline: 01/02/2009

01/13/2009
The Elevator Procrastinators? Home Brewing Competition (no web site)
Columbus, OH
Contact: Mark Beery
Phone: (614) 327-1537
Entry Fee: $5.00
Entry Deadline: 01/09/2009

01/18/2009
AHA Club-Only Competition, Belgian & French Ales
Warrenville, IL
Contact: Doug Newberry
Phone: (630) 482-3075
Entry Fee: One entry per club, $7 (make check payable to AHA)
Entry Deadline: 01/09/2009

01/23/2009
Upper Mississippi Mash Out
St. Paul, MN
Contact: Kristen England c/o Northern Brewer
Phone: (651) 291-8849
Entry Deadline: 01/10/2009

01/24/2009
Meadllennium 2009
Orlando, FL
Contact: Ron Bach
Phone: (407) 415-0355
Entry Fee: $6.00 on-line entries only
Entry Deadline: 01/16/2009

01/24/2009
Samuel Adams Patriot Homebrew Contest
Foxboro, MA
Contact: Michael Fairbrother
Phone: (603) 234-9582
Entry Deadline: 12/19/2008

01/24/2009
Doug King Memorial Lager and Specialty Beer Competition
Woodland Hills, CA
Contact: Aaron Selzer
Phone: (818) 825-1074
Entry Fee: $5.00
Entry Deadline: 01/09/2009

01/24/2009
The Bruery Batch No. 50 Competition
Placentia, CA
Contact: Patrick Rue
Phone: (714) 996-6258
Entry Fee: $0
Entry Deadline: 01/17/2009

01/28/2009
Brew Bubbas Big Brew Brew-Off: January 2009
Warren, MI
Contact: Craig Belanger
Phone: (586) 945-8629
Entry Fee: $9.00
Entry Deadline: 01/14/2009

01/31/2009
Snowdown's First Annual Homebrew Competition
Durango, CO
Contact: Matthew Morrow
Phone: (970) 764-7128
Entry Fee: $10
Entry Deadline: 01/17/2009

01/31/2009
11th Annual Domras Cup Mead Competition
Savannah, GA
Contact: Chris Stovall
Phone: (912) 920-1387
Entry Fee: $6
Entry Deadline: 01/24/2009
February 2009

02/06/2009
The Great Northern Brew-Ha-Ha
Duluth, MN
Contact: Steve Daiken
Phone: (715) 394-1559
Entry Fee: $5.00
Entry Deadline: 01/30/2009

02/07/2009
Best Florida Beer Professional Championships
Tampa, FL
Contact: Jeff Gladish
Phone: (813) 874-0937
Entry Fee: $35.00
Entry Deadline: 02/02/2009

02/07/2009
KLCC Microbrew Festival Homebrew Competition
Eugene, OR
Contact: Jason Carriere
Phone: (541) 915-1352
Entry Fee: $10 for 1st entry, $5 each additional brew
Entry Deadline: 02/02/2009

02/08/2009
Homebrew Alley 3
New York, NY
Contact: Sean White
Phone: (614) 564-7646
Entry Fee: $7
Entry Deadline: 01/30/2009

02/20/2009
Kansas City Bier Meisters 26th Annual
Roeland Park, KS
Contact: Neava Ford
Phone: (913) 432-9630
Entry Deadline: 02/07/2009

02/20/2009
America's Finest City Homebrew Competition
San Diego, CA
Contact: Jim Mosteller
Phone: (619) 222-2514
Entry Fee: $6.00 per entry
Entry Deadline: 02/13/2009

02/21/2009
16th Annual Peach State Brew Off
Atlanta, GA
Contact: Del Price
Phone: (404) 388-4903
Entry Fee: $7.00 per entry
Entry Deadline: 02/07/2009

02/21/2009
Cowtown Homebrew Roundup
Calgary, AB
Contact: Darren Bender
Phone: (403) 220-6398
Entry Fee: $5
Entry Deadline: 02/13/2009

02/21/2009
4th Annual Peterson AFB Homebrew Competition
Colorado Springs, CO
Contact: Michael Bordick
Phone: (719) 282-1723
Entry Fee: $5 for one, $10 unlimited
Entry Deadline: 02/19/2009

02/21/2009
War of the Worts
Montgomeryville, PA
Contact: Andy Hejl
Phone: (215) 646-1764
Entry Fee: $6 first entry, $5 additional
Entry Deadline: 02/07/2009

02/21/2009
The Coconut Cup
Coral Gables, FL
Contact: Denise Graham
Phone: (305) 227-0848
Entry Fee: 6
Entry Deadline: 02/06/2009

02/28/2009
BABBLE Brew-Off
Mundelein, IL
Contact: Bruce Dir
Phone: (847) 566-8012
Entry Fee: $7/$5 additional entries
Entry Deadline: 02/21/2009

02/28/2009
14th Boston Homebrew Competition
Boston, MA
Contact: Eric Wooten
Phone: (617) 943-9377
Entry Fee: $6 per entry
Entry Deadline: 02/14/2009

02/28/2009
Great Arizona Home Brew Competition
Phoenix, AZ
Contact: Norman Naff
Phone: (623) 386-0656
Entry Fee: $6.00
Entry Deadline: 02/24/2009

02/28/2009
Best Florida Beer Championship
Tampa, FL
Contact: Geoff Hall
Phone: (941) 932-0910
Entry Fee: $6.00
Entry Deadline: 02/08/2009
March 2009

03/02/2009
EHG's "dark(er)" color beers competition
edmonton, AB
Contact: kurt stenberg
Phone: 780-989-2546
Entry Fee: $2.00 EHG members, $5.00 non-members
Entry Deadline: 03/02/2009

03/06/2009
Amber Waves of Grain
Buffalo, NY
Contact: Jake Ocque
Phone: (401) 374-8907
Entry Fee: $6 per entry up to 5 entries ($5 for each additional)

03/07/2009
Cincinnati Bockfest
Cincinnati, OH
Contact: Ray Snyder
Phone: (513) 515-0799
Entry Fee: $5 first entry, $4 subsequent entries
Entry Deadline: 02/25/2009

03/11/2009
Kona Brewers Festival Homebrew Competition
Kailua Kona, HI
Contact: Fred Housel
Phone: (808) 331-8602
Entry Fee: $7
Entry Deadline: 03/04/2009

03/14/2009
UKG Drunk Monk Challenge 2009
Aurora, IL
Contact: John Kleczewski
Phone: (630) 621-3342
Entry Fee: See website for details
Entry Deadline: 03/06/2009

03/21/2009
9th Annual March Mashness
St. Cloud, MN
Contact: Bruce LeBlanc
Phone: (320) 251-0229
Entry Fee: $6 per entry
Entry Deadline: 03/15/2009

03/27/2009
UNYHA XXXI/Empire State Open 20th
Rochester, NY
Contact: Tina Weymann
Phone: (585) 482-3346
Entry Fee: $5 per 2-bottle entry

03/28/2009
The Highland Cup (no web site)
Asheville , NC
Contact: Steve Schwartz
Phone: (828) 299-3370
Entry Fee: First entery $6.00 / any additional entries $5.00
Entry Deadline: 03/20/2009

03/28/2009
BOSS Chicago Cup Challenge
Blue Island, IL
Contact: Michael Pelter
Phone: (219) 864-4666
Entry Fee: $7 for first entry; $5 for each additional entry
Entry Deadline: 03/21/2009


Cheers!

[dhempy]

Hey Thanks BC:

I noticed that few (if any) of these had e-mail addresses / websites. Aside from calling each one, are they available somewhere?

Also, I would find a "Competition DB" as an extension of the BC site useful.

Dan

[jward]

Thanks, I especially appreciate the value added highlights of some of the comps.

[dhempy]

Thanks, I especially appreciate the value added highlights of some of the comps.

Care to elaborate on "value added highlights"? I'm not sure I follow.

Dan

[jward]

Thanks, I especially appreciate the value added highlights of some of the comps.

Care to elaborate on "value added highlights"? I'm not sure I follow.

Rob took the time to highlight some of the more noteworthy comps:

These are some of the best competitions of the year. Sam Adams, the Coconut Cup, AFC, Doug King, Kona, the Drunk Monk and our very own Patrick Rue with the Bruery hosting yet another comp.

I think that pointing out comps that standout or are of particular interest to BC members ads value. The calendar system could allow for more of this including other information like don't drop your bottles off for the ABC comp at BFD liquor since they leave your bottles in their hot back room for a week.

[dhempy]

Thanks, I especially appreciate the value added highlights of some of the comps.

Care to elaborate on "value added highlights"? I'm not sure I follow.

Rob took the time to highlight some of the more noteworthy comps:

These are some of the best competitions of the year. Sam Adams, the Coconut Cup, AFC, Doug King, Kona, the Drunk Monk and our very own Patrick Rue with the Bruery hosting yet another comp.

I think that pointing out comps that standout or are of particular interest to BC members ads value. The calendar system could allow for more of this including other information like don't drop your bottles off for the ABC comp at BFD liquor since they leave your bottles in their hot back room for a week.

Thanks for that elaboration .. I'll keep it in mind as we're looking at the addins.

I won't get back to this until Friday at the earliest as I've got to travel this week for clients.

Dan

[dhempy]

Had some time this morning to look at (or at least try to look at) the other promising Events managers for Joomla. First, I was partially able to get the BC home page installed on my local machine. I've still got a few things to overcome but I can at least see light at the end of the tunnel.

The other Events Managers I looked at are Eventing and JEvents. Unfortunately, both of these require the legacy plugin be turned on in Joomla. When I did this, I couldn't get my copy of the BC homepage to load properly. This pretty much leaves us with EventList as the only viable option. Turns out, that EventList isn't really a bad option. I spent a little time getting it configured and I think we can easily mold it into what we want.

Here are my current thoughts / plans and some general info for the community.

First, Events are assigned categories. I can only think of a couple of pertinent types for these .. "HomeBrew" competition (come one come all entrants) and the "Club Only" (a single entry per club). Even if there are more, I think we should only allow admins to set up categories. We'll want to start thinking about the other types before too long.

We need to think about access to these both for submission and simple viewing. EventList requires that submission be from a Registered User at a minimum. There is an option for "special" and I assume that we can make that work for Club Member and or perhaps other subsets of registered users. I don't see any need to restrict viewing of these things .. but we will need to have some restrictions.

Events are tied to Venues ... new comps will have to have Venues added. The venue has the address info and website but no phone number ... we'll have to see if we can "extend" that .. otherwise, phone numbers will have to go in comments. For recurring events, as long as the venue doesn't change, the following year's event should be simple to add. There is a link to add venue right off the add event page so navigation is simple. If the venue exists, it is available via pulldown.

The calendar module add on seems to work fine. I want to do some additional testing with it before I render a final opinion. I'm going to take the competition info from the top of this thread and see how it looks on my system. Once I have the data in the system, I want to see if we can create a widget (perhaps not the correct term) that displays the next few (4-5) upcoming comps (links) on a page somewhere.

Assuming that all goes well, I'll work with Brent and we'll see if we can get something up on the Beta Site for feedback. It may be plain vanilla but that'll make maintenance easy!

Cheers!

Dan

[brew captain]

Once I have the data in the system, I want to see if we can create a widget (perhaps not the correct term) that displays the next few (4-5) upcoming comps (links) on a page somewhere.

Dan

That's what I'm talking about!



Cheers!