2021 – 10th edition
Do you make beer at home?
Do you want to compete?
Awards ceremony was held on 25.09.2021.
Congratulations to the winners and big thanks to all participants that made this happen!
Winners list and results on our competition site
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Data from the 2021. competition
“Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Živjeli! Sláinte chugat! Na zdravie! Наздраве! Noroc! Egészségére!
other homebrew competitions
7th Homebrew Competition
24-02-2018
Košice, Slovakia
Biela Vrana
The competition is finished for this year. Click the link to see results for 2018.
resultsIX. Homebrewers Competition
14-03-2020
Budapest, Hungary
IX. Homebrewers Competition
Registration for the competition is open now. Click link for information.
information8th Bulgarian Homebrew Competition
30-05-2020
Sofia, Bulgaria
8th Bulgarian Homebrew Competition
Registration opens 01-03-2020. Click link for information.
information5th Romanian Homebrewing Competition
09-05-2020
Bucharest, Romania
3rd Romanian Homebrewing Competition
Registration of entries will open on 14-03-2020. Click link for information.
informationLondon and South East Craft Brewing Competition 2018
03-05-2020
London, England
London and South East Craft Brewing Competition 2018
Registration of entries is already full. Click link for information.
information5. Slovensko Tekmovanje Domačih Pivovarjev
Autumn 2018
Slovenia
5. Slovensko Tekmovanje Domačih Pivovarjev
Registration is not yet open. Click link for last year's results.
resultsColleagues and camaraderie
In addition to trying to grow our local beer scene, we believe that it’s a good thing to network with other brewers in the region. We enter many competitions and drive to some of them to deliver Croatian entries. We help judge at some of these competitions and hang out with our friends in these other countries and talk about beer and brewing. We feel that this helps to foster an international beer community and can only help in our pursuit of a worldwide beer revolution. We encourage you to enter these competitions. If we are attending and can deliver your entries, we will post that on our social media network, linked at the bottom of this page.
Our Core Values
We Foster Education
Every year we train a new set of beer judges to help us judge the competition. This not only serves the purpose of providing us with more judges, it also helps educate local homebrewers. These judges will provide good critiques for how to improve competitor’s beers. All of our judges have gone through extensive judge training, including sensory training with off flavors. Many of our judges have gone on to open craft breweries. Amongst our judges are brewers from Zmajska Pivovara, Nova Runda and Varionica.
We Pursue Excellence
We believe in a sort of open source view of the world and sharing information on technique and recipes in the hope that it will make everybody’s beer better. We like to drink great beer, so if everyone around us is making better beer and helping each other improve, everyone wins. A rising tide lifts all boats, as they say. This site will eventually have articles and links on how to improve your beer.
We Practice Honesty
Judging is completely anonymous. While winning medals is nice, sometimes a brewer might have some issue with their beer and need an unbiased opinion and some feedback on how to improve the beer. Our judges give honest input on each beer they judge. And because it’s anonymous, you don’t have to be embarrassed to enter a beer that has some problems. You could receive some helpful advice.
We Create Fun
Brewers and beer geeks are fun people to hang out with. Every year we host different hangouts and the competition party for like minded beery folks to have fun together. This camaraderie helps to grow the scene which in turn ensures its survival in a brutal marketplace. We like to foster a fun environment that will promote good beer and lead to all of us having more choices for excellent beers to drink.
Competition Organizers
Andrej Čapka
Goran Kramarić
Damir Ban
Fran Mehičić
Igor Poljak
Luka Motočić
Matt Hollingsworth
medal winning homebrew recipes
2016-Gold Medals
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Best of Show
Gold medal for Miscellaneous CategoryBJCP category 28A: Brett beer.
Brewed by Miha Tome, Aleš Ogrinec & Luka Kranjc.
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GOLD medal for India Pale Ale category
BJCP category 21A: American IPA.
Brewed by Silvije Boroša.
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2016-Silver medals
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silver medal for the wheat beer category
BJCP category 10A: Weissbier.
Brewed by Goran Kramarić.
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silver medal for the belgian ales category
BJCP category 25A: Belgian Blond Ale.
Brewed by Janko Cvitaš & Adriana Milina.
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2016-bronze medals
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bronze medal for the Amber-Brown-Dark American Ales category
BJCP category 20A: American Porter.
Brewed by Martin Bedeković.
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bronze medal for the Miscellaneous category
BJCP category 34C: Experimental Beer.
Brewed by Yordan Chenkov.
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