Sydney Beer Week Pro-Am 2025 Info
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Rules
The Sydney Beer Week – ProAm Homebrew Competition is BJCP sanctioned and open to any amateur homebrewer aged 18 or older who is resident in NSW.
The competition will be sponsored by commercial breweries and have multiple flights, one for each participating brewery.
The homebrewer winning a flight will work with the sponsoring brewery to brew their beer commercially for Sydney Beer Week.
By entering the competition, the entrant acknowledges and agrees to surrender all intellectual property rights associated with their recipe, and waives any commercial claims on proceeds from the use of that recipe by the sponsoring brewery.
If multiple breweries have selected the same BJCP style, entrants can only enter the style once and must choose their preferred brewery.
An entrant can enter multiple flights but can only place first in one flight which will be with their highest scoring beer, the organisers reserve the right to make the final decision on rule interpretation as required.
If a winner of a flight no longer wishes to be a part of the Pro-Am competition, this will pass to the 2nd place winner and so on.
All entries must be handcrafted products, containing ingredients available to the general public, and made using private equipment by hobbyist brewers (i.e. no use of commercial facilities or Brew on Premises operations, supplies, etc.)
All mailed entries must be received at the shipping location by the deadline - please allow for shipping time. All entries will be picked up from drop-off locations the day of the drop-off deadline.
The competition organisers are not responsible for entries entered into the wrong style, mailed entries that are not received by the entry deadline, or entries that arrive damaged.
Qualified judging of all entries is an important goal of our event. Judges will evaluate and score each entry. The consensus of the scores will be used to rank each entry in its category.
In the event of tied scores in determining the first places, this will be resolved either by the judging panel during judging or using a progressive countback until the tie is resolved based on:
- highest score for Overall Impression;
- highest score for Flavour;
- smallest spread of individual judge scores
- the judging panel and/or head judge will resolve the tie.
Containers will not be returned to entrants.
AABC 2022 Judging Styles
If a style's name is hyperlinked, it has specific entry requirements. Select or tap on the name to view the subcategory's requirements.
| ABC.01 Akasha (Custom Style) | BLB.01 Badlands (Custom Style) | CBC.01 Coastal Brewing (Custom Style) |
| DBC.01 Depot Brewery (Custom Style) | DDB.01 Dad & Dave's (Custom Style) | ETR.01 Endeavour (Custom Style) |
| FBB.01 Frenchies (Custom Style) | FBC.01 Freshwater (Custom Style) | SLB.01 Slow Lane (Custom Style) |
| WBC.01 Wayward Brewing (Custom Style) | WTB.01 Willie the Boatman (Custom Style) |
Number of Bottles Required Per Entry: 1
Judging Sessions
Belvedere Hotel - Morning
Sunday 27 July, 2025 10:30, AEST
Belvedere Hotel - Afternoon
Sunday 27 July, 2025 14:00, AEST
Best of Show
The 1st place entry in each category will be offered the opportunity to work with the sponsoring brewery.
Styles in each brewery’s section are as follows:
Akasha Brewing Company
Badlands Brewery
The Coastal Brewing Company
- Ordinary Bitter
- Best Bitter
- Strong Bitter
- British Golden Ale
- Australian Sparkling Ale
- English IPA
- Dark Mild
- British Brown Ale
- English Porter
- Scottish Light
- Scottish Heavy
- Scottish Export
- Irish Red Ale
- Irish Stout
- Irish Extra Stout
- American IPA
- Double IPA
- American Strong Ale
- American Barleywine
- Wheatwine
Dad & Dave's Brewing
Endeavour Tap Rooms
- Belgian Blond Ale
- Saison
- Belgian Golden Strong Ale
- Belgian IPA
- Black IPA
- Brown IPA
- Red IPA
- Rye IPA
- White IPA
- Brut IPA
Freshwater Brewing Company
Slow Lane Brewing
- Kellerbier
- Kentucky Common
- Lichtenhainer
- London Brown Ale
- Piwo Grodziskie
- Pre-prohibition Lager
- Pre-prohibition Porter
- Roggenbier
- Sahti
Depot Brewing
Willie the Boatman
- American Light Lager
- American Lager
- International Pale Lager
- Czech Pale Lager
- Czech Premium Pale Lager
Wayward Brewing
Frenchies
Awards
The awards ceremony will take place once judging is completed.
Places will be awarded to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in each category/table.
The 1st place entry in each category will have the opportunity for a Pro-Am day with the sponsoring brewery and to have their beer brewed commercially.
The commercial brews will be judged and receive public votes during Sydney Beer Week at Hotel Sweeney's.
Awards Ceremony
Hotel Sweeney's
236 Clarence St, Sydney NSW 2000
Saturday 25 October, 2025 20:00, AEDT
Judging Sessions
Belvedere Hotel - Morning
27/07/2025 10:30, AEST.
Belvedere Hotel - Afternoon
27/07/2025 14:00, AEST.
Account Registration Closed
Account registrations accepted 16/05/2025 10:00, AEST through 27/07/2025 10:30, AEST.
Registrations for judges or stewards accepted 16/05/2025 10:00, AEST through 27/07/2025 18:00, AEST.
Entry Registration Closed
Entry Drop-Off Closed
Please pay attention to the notes provided for each drop-off location. There could be earlier deadlines for some drop-off locations listed, particular hours when entries are accepted, certain individuals to leave your entries with, etc. All entrants are responsible for reading the information provided by the organizers for each drop-off location.