SIBA Homebrew Beer Awards 2025
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Important Information:
- You must be a SIBA Homebrewer member to enter. You can join here
- Please read the competition detail below before submitting your entry form
For the 2025 SIBA Homebrew Beer Awards, SIBA has teamed up with malt specialists Crisp Malt, The Malt Miller and leading London brewery Five Points to challenge homebrewing members to brew the UK’s most alluring British Dark Beer. This could be a Dark Mild, Stout, Porter or even a Red Ale, it’s up to you.
In celebration of the 60th anniversary of Maris Otter in 2025, your base malt should use this legendary variety as well as the other Crisp Malts you need (excluded Chevallier and Hana malts) – all provided free courtesy of our partners.
Crisp Malt will provide the malts needed for a 19 litre batch to each entrant via The Malt Miller and all you have to do is pay the postage and packaging. SIBA will provide each entrant with a code to use on The Malt Miller website which can be used to order the Crisp Malts.
Five Points will host the winner at their brewery site in London where they get to brew with the expert team using their innovative test kit. The beer will be packaged into cask and sold through Five Points tap and pub.
Important Information – Please Read
Competition Detail
The beer style
The British Dark Beer must contain Maris Otter as the base malt with a target strength of 4-6% ABV and can contain other Crisp Malts (excluding Chevallier and Hana malts) provided for free via The Malt Miller (postage and packaging applies).
The British Dark Beer can include Dark Mild, Stout, Dark Bitter, Porter, Old Ale, Barley Wine, Brown Ale, Red Ale, 80/- or Scottish Wee Heavy with a target colour range of 14-40 SRM. You can chose any adjuncts that match the beer style.
Entrants must send 3x bottles or cans (any size). When sending your bottles or cans of beer in for judging you will also be asked to supply information on what style you have chosen (referencing the appropriate BJCP style), whether the beer is bottle conditioned, whether it is meant to be hazy and what the estimated or target abv is.
Malt: Must contain Maris Otter as base malt but can include other Crisp Malts too
Hops: Any
Adjuncts: Any
Yeast: Any
ABV: 4.0 – 6.0% abv
Style: Any British Dark Beer including Dark Mild, Stout, Dark Bitter, Porter, Old Ale, Barley Wine, Brown Ale, Red Ale, 80/- or Scottish Wee Heavy
Entering
Please enter using the registration form, providing your details and agreeing to allow SIBA to share your details with The Malt Miller who will be sending you the Malt. On registering you will be sent a code which can be used on The Malt Miller website. You’ll only have to pay postage and packaging and may wish to order other ingredients at the same time.
You must send 3 x bottles or cans (any size) to the collection point which must arrive by Friday 7th March 2025.
Judging will take place at BeerX on Wednesday 19th March and all Homebrewer members get free entry to BeerX.
National Homebrew Beer Awards 2025 Terms and Conditions
1. The National Homebrew Beer Awards 2025 is open to all SIBA Homebrewer members
and only one entry is permitted per member in a given year.
2. SIBA Homebrewer members must complete a registration form to enter. The form
must be completed between 23 October 2024 and by 23 January 2025 (midnight). Any
entry that is late, incomplete or inappropriate will be deemed invalid at the discretion
of SIBA.
3. SIBA takes no responsibility for any technical failures that may result in any entry being
lost, broken in the post or not properly registered. No responsibility will be taken for
damaged or lost entries.
4. This is restricted to 200 entries to be judged at BeerX 2025. At the discretion of the
Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) entries may be extended with initial judging
take place at an earlier stage.
5. The Awards will be judged at BeerX by a panel of judges compiled by SIBA and include
professional brewers using SIBA’s Beer Award style guide. Each entrant will receive via
email judges’ feedback. The judges’ decision will be final.
6. All entries must be received at the collection point by 7 March 2025. Any received
after this date will not be eligible for entry into the competition.
7. The names of winners will be published on the SIBA website and social media.
8. Any personal data submitted to SIBA will be processed in accordance with any
applicable data protection legislation and SIBA’s Privacy Notice which is available at
http://www.siba.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/SIBA-Privacy-Notice-April
2018.pdf
9. Entrants agree for SIBA to share their details with The Malt Miller so that malt for the
competition can be provided.
10. The overall winner will have the opportunity for their recipe to be brewed at a SIBA
participating brewery, subject to approval of the brewer. Submitting an entry means
that the entrant agrees to provide a copy of the recipe used to brew the beer in a
eligible format and that SIBA and the SIBA participating brewery are licenced to use,
change, brew and sell the beer made from the recipe.
11. SIBA reserves the right to replace the prize with alternative prizes of equal or higher
value if necessary and to cancel, amend or suspend the competition, or any part of it
(including these Terms and Conditions) as required by circumstances.
12. The winner will be announced at BeerX and notified by email by telephone or in
writing (using the details provided at entry) and will be invited to arrange a brew day
with the SIBA participating brewery. SIBA will not be liable for any failure or inability
to contact a winner nor the brewers’ availability to attend a brew day on the dates
provided.
13. SIBA cannot accept responsibility for or liability arising from entrants taking part in the
competition. SIBA give no warranty or guarantee in relation to the prize and accept
no responsibility or liability for the prizes being amended. To the fullest extent
permitted by law, SIBA exclude liability for all loss, damage or claim arising as a result
of a participant’s entry into the Competition or use of the prizes (save in the case of
death or personal injury caused by the negligence of SIBA).
14. By entering the Competition, entrants agree to hold SIBA harmless for liability,
damages or claims for injury or loss to any person or property, relating to, directly or
indirectly, participation in this Competition, or claims based on publicity rights, third
party intellectual property rights, defamation or invasion of privacy
15. SIBA reserves the right to refuse entry or to refuse to award a prize to anyone in
breach of the Rules
16. These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with
English law. Disputes arising in connection with this Competition shall be subject to
the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts
17. The promoter is the Society of Independent Brewers and Associates, Unit 4, The Old
Laundry, Fishergreen, Ripon, England, HG4 1NL
