Club Only Competitions

To foster competition and provide club members with anonymous judging feedback, QUAFF each year holds a series of Club Only Competitions (“COC”).  QUAFF COC’s are free to enter, but are only open to dues-paid club members.

The first, second, and third place winners of the COC’s are recognized at our monthly general QUAFF meetings, and all entrants earn points in the races for the coveted titles of QUAFF Homebrewer of the Year, QUAFF Fermentationist of the Year, and QUAFF Rising Star.  Here is the 2026 Club Only Competition lineup:

2026 Results

• • Don’t Forget About Me – Beer Track
    • 1st Place:
    • 2nd Place:
    • 3rd Place:
  • Don’t Forget About Me – Mead & Cider Track
    • 1st Place:
    • 2nd Place:
    • 3rd Place:

2025 Results

• • Low Rider – Beer Track
    • 1st Place: AJ Hubner – “Who Needs 1st Runnings” (Dark Mild)
    • 2nd Place: Jeffry Battles – “This Is My Cream Ale” (Cream Ale)
    • 3rd Place: Jeffry Battles – “Battles Best Bitter (Triple B)” (Best Bitter)
  • Low Rider – Mead & Cider Track
    • 1st Place: John Bell III – “I’ve Got A Lovely Bunch Of Coconuts” (Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Mead)
    • 2nd Place: John Bell III – “I Hate Making Up Names” (Semi-Sweet Mead)
    • 3rd Place: Jeff Case – “Cyser Yo Say?” (Cyser)
  • Smoke & Roast
    • 1st Place: Doug Brown – “Keep Pounding Porter” (American Porter)
    • 2nd Place: Jeffry Battles – “Ancillary Darkness” (Imperial Stout)
    • 3rd Place: Nathan Hausch – “Three Little Birds” (Tropical Stout)
  • Citrus Party! – Beer Track
    • 1st Place: Travis Johnson – “White Walker IPA” (White IPA)
    • 2nd Place: Jeffry Battles – “Longdale White” (Witbier)
    • 3rd Place: Ed Bergen – “White IPA” (White IPA)
  • Citrus Party! – Mead & Cider Track
    • 1st Place: John Bell III – “Minute Maid Mead” (Melomel)
    • 2nd Place: Alexandria Horn – “Gaia’s Gift” (Fruit and Spice Mead)
    • 3rd Place: Jonathon Schubert – “Be Better Not Bitter” (Melomel)
  • History in the Making – Beer Track
    • 1st Place: Jeffry Battles & Jake Smith – “Strictly Prohibited” (Pre-Prohibition Lager)
    • 2nd Place: Jeffry Battles & Jake Smith – “Not So Common After All” (Kentucky Common)
    • 3rd Place: Ben Frymark & Dan Stoneman – “3” (Experimental Beer)
  • History in the Making – Mead & Cider Track
    • 1st Place: Jeff Case – “Miel Diablo” (Experimental Mead)
    • 2nd Place: Alexandria Horn – “Key Lime Pie” (Experimental Mead)
    • 3rd Place: Alexandria Horn – “CHOCOLATE!! CHOOOCOLAAAATE!!” (Experimental Mead)
  • People’s Choice
    • 1st Place: Ed Bergen – “London Brown” (London Brown Ale)
    • 2nd Place: Anthony Incrocci – “Anthony Incrocci” (American Brown Ale)
    • 3rd Place: Jeffry Battles – “Red Eye to Dublin” (Irish Red Ale)
    • People’s Choice Winner: Jeff Case – “K-97 Sucks” (Kölsch)
  • Braggoting Rights
    • 1st Place: Alexandria Perry & Doug Brown – “Cold Crush Tangerine” (M4A – Braggot)
    • 2nd Place: Alexandria Perry & Doug Brown – “B.O.S.S. Braggot” (M4A – Braggot)
    • 3rd Place: John Bell & Melissa Greenfield – “Tepache Marzen” (M4A – Braggot)

How to Enter

• • Register your entry or entries using the Google form for the competition.  The link to this form will be circulated via email to the QUAFF email list.
  • Print and fill out an entry label for each entry, and attach a completed label to each of your bottles (preferably with a rubber band).
  • Drop off your bottles, no later than the deadline, at The Sundt building in Mission Valley, 1660 Hotel Circle North, Suite 304. Drop-off times are 7am to 5pm, Monday through Friday. Enter Suit 304 and proceed back to the left, where the breakroom is, and please leave entries in the refrigerator.

Rules and Procedures

• • Club Only Competitions are only open to current, dues-paid QUAFF members.
  • Entries must not be brewed on a professional system.
  • To ensure that a fresh sample is available for Best of Show judging, two (2) bottles are required per entry.
  • All entries must be registered for the competition and dropped off by the entry deadlines listed above.
  • All entries must be unique, meaning that a given beverage may not be entered more than once in that same subcategory (even if by a co-brewer).
  • Each club member may submit up to 3 entries per competition. Entries on which a club member is identified as a co-brewer do not count against this limit.
  • Where an entry is submitted on behalf of multiple club members, all entrants (including co-brewers) will be awarded all points awarded for that entry towards the standings for QUAFF Homebrewer of the Year and/or the Rising Star Award
  • If co-brewed entries result in a club member being named on more than 3 entries, only the 3 highest-scoring of those entries will count for points towards that club member’s standing in the race for QUAFF Homebrewer of the Year and/or the Rising Star Award
  • No club member may enter more than 1 entry (including co-brewed entries) in the same style (i.e., within the same sub-category) in the same competition. For the I Mead It My Way competition, club members may enter up to 3 entries as long as they are distinct from one another.
  • Failure to comply with these rules and procedures may result in disqualification from the competition.
  • Each entry will receive back at least two completed scoresheets via email. Short-form scoresheets may be used to expedite judging.
  • Results will generally be announced at the next monthly QUAFF general meeting following the entry deadline, after which results will be sent to the QUAFF email list.

Contact

Doug Brown, Ben Frymark, and Dan Stoneman are the Club Only Competition Coordinators for 2024. Please direct any questions, comments, and concerns to clubonly@quaff.org.