Competitions – Kansas City Beer

Kansas City Bier Meisters 33rd Annual Homebrew Competition

Wow, 33rd Annual! That’s longer than even Boulevard has been around. Kansas City Bier Meisters will be holding their 33rd Annual Homebrew Competition this month. If you’d like to enter go to their website to register and drop your entries off at KC Bier Co. You have just until tomorrow (02/05) at 5pm to do so.
Some amazing prizes are up for grabs including 2 commercial scale ups (Cinder Block & KC Bier Co), brewing equipment, a Lifetime Membership to Brewer’s Friend, a counter-pressure bottler, and more. Winners will be announced at the Award Ceremony on Saturday, February 20. Before the Awards Ceremony, there will be a Banquet with featured speaker Chef and Certified Cicerone Celina Tio.

They have a lot of other fun things planned (over $10,000 in raffle prizes to name one), so be sure to check out their website: www.kcbiermeisters.org for all of the information.

If you’d like to volunteer to be a judge or to help out in some other way, email competition@kcbiermeisters.org.

Kansas City Bier Meisters holds monthly meetings the third Friday of each month, typically at Christ the King Church in Kansas City, MO. The group was founded in 1983, making them the oldest homebrewing club in Kansas and Missouri and the second oldest in the country. In addition to their monthly meetings, they also host several social events throughout the year. Join their Facebook group and Follow them on Twitter.

75th Street Brewery Homebrew Competition

It’s nearly every homebrewer’s dream to own brewery or, at the very least, have hundreds of people enjoy their beer. Homebrewers will get that chance to be featured as a guest tap at 75th Street Brewery. On Wednesday at 10am, the online submission form will be open to everyone for their chance at one of fifty unfermented worts. Once you get your wort, go crazy with it, within reason. No lagers will be accepted, only ales, and no wild yeast can be used. This will 75th Street Brewery’s second time holding this competition and the worts were gone within two minutes last year, so if you want some, get in there quick. The winner’s creation will be brewed on 75th’s system and be on guest tap in 2015. Second place receive a $150 gift card and third place gets a $75 gift card. You will have a little over 10 weeks to brew your beer and have it submitted to 75th Street Brewery by December 14. The winner will be announced at a special Homebrew Competition Happy Hour on December 31st.

For more details: 75thstreet.com/eventsentertainment