12th Annual Heart of Cascadia
Entries
Judging
Entry Registration
Account Registration
Judge Registration
Steward Registration
Entry Drop-Off
Entry Shipping
Rules
If you are willing to judge or steward, please return to register on or after Saturday, July 4, 2026 4:00 AM, PDT.
This competition is AHA sanctioned and open to any amateur homebrewer age 21 or older.
All mailed entries must be received at the mailing location by the shipping deadline - please allow for shipping time.
All entries will be picked up from drop-off locations soon after the drop-off deadline.
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.).
The competition organizers are not responsible for mis-categorized entries, mailed entries that are not received by the entry deadline, or entries that arrived damaged. Please note this is an IPA ONLY competition. The categories listed are only for IPAs that may fit within that category.
The competition organizers reserve the right to combine styles for judging and to restructure awards as needed depending upon the quantity and quality of entries.
Qualified judging of all entries is the primary goal of our event. Judges will evaluate and score each entry. The average of the scores will rank each entry in its category. Each flight will have at least one BJCP judge.
Brewers are not limited to one entry in each category but may only enter each subcategory once.
The competition committee reserves the right to combine overall style categories based on number of entries. All possible effort will be made to combine similar styles. All brews in combined categories will be judged according to the style they were originally entered in.
The Best of Show judging will be determined by a Best of Show panel based on a second judging of the top winners.
Bottles will not be returned to entrants.
Entry Info
BJCP 2021 / 2025 Judging Styles
Indicates that the style's entry limit has been reached and no more entries of that style will be accepted.
| 12C English IPA | 21A American IPA | 21B Specialty IPA |
| 21B1 Belgian IPA | 21B2 Black IPA | 21B3 Brown IPA |
| 21B4 Red IPA | 21B5 Rye IPA | 21B6 White IPA |
| 21B7 Brut IPA | 21C Hazy IPA | 22A Double IPA |
| 27A Historical Beer | 28C Wild Specialty Beer | 29A Fruit Beer |
| 30A Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer | 31A Alternative Grain Beer | 31B Alternative Sugar Beer |
| 32A Classic Style Smoked Beer | 32B Specialty Smoked Beer | 33A Wood-Aged Beer |
| 33B Specialty Wood-Aged Beer | 34C Experimental Beer | 50A Session IPAs (Custom Style) |
| 53A Milkshake IPA (Custom Style) | 54A IPL /Cold IPA (Custom Style) | 57A Hop Water (Custom Style) |
| LSX2 IPA Argenta |
Judging Sessions
Judging Session 1 (morning)
Sunday, September 13, 2026 9:30 AM, PDT
Judging Session 2 (afternoon)
Sunday, September 13, 2026 12:30 PM, PDT
Awards
The awards ceremony will take place after judging, on Sun Sept 13th, at 5pm. Awards will be streamed, via YouTube for those who are remote: .
Places will be awarded to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in each category/table. All three places might not be awarded on small flights of under 9 entries, depending on entry quality and the descretion of the table's judges.
The 1st place entry in each category will advance to the Best of Show (BOS) round with a single, overall Best of Show beer selected. The BOS beers will be judged in accordance to the BJCP guidelines and overall beer quality.
Additional prizes may be awarded to those winners present at the awards ceremony at the discretion of the competition organizers.
Awards will be mailed to participants. Results will be posted to the competition web site after the judging ends and will be available for viewing within 1-2 days. Score sheets will be scanned and made available electronically as soon as possible following the conclusion of judging.
Awards Ceremony
Gigantic Brewing - Brewery & Taproom
5224 SE 26th Ave, Portland, OR 97202
Sunday, September 13, 2026 5:00 PM, PDT
Volunteers
Judges and Stewards
If you have registered, log in and then choose Edit Account from the My Account menu indicated by the icon on the top menu.
Other Volunteer Info
Please contact the competition coordinator via email if you would like to assist with the competition. If you are interested in being a judge or steward, please register and sign up via the website as a participant.
Sponsors
Contact
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