There are 73 competitions that are currently hosted.
Does your organization or festival host a homebrew competition?
Do you want a simple way to organize your judge, steward, and entrant pools before competition day?
Do you wish to have the ease of collecting entrant information online so it can be ready to use when you need it?
Do you want to be able to manage the entire competition online, including table assignments, judge assignments, electronic scoresheets, and result reporting?
An option for homebrew competition organizers is to host their competition's entry portal on brewingcompetitions.com, eliminating the overhead securing a webhost, downloading the source code, configuring the installation, and uploading it to a web server.
Sound good?
Using the online order form, your organization can purchase a hosted BCOE&M site on a yearly subscription basis. The subscription is only $75 USD per year (this helps to cover bandwidth and webserver space charges). That's cheap! And payments are safe and easy via PayPal.
Each subscription is three years. During that three year term, the $75 USD will be charged each year until it ends, for a total of $225.
For example, if you initiate your subscription today, its term will end September 30, 2028. The payment schedule for that subscription term would be:
| Year | Sub Dates | Payment |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026 | $75 USD (automatically charged October 1, 2025 via PayPal) |
| 2 | October 1, 2026 through September 30, 2027 | $75 USD (automatically charged October 1, 2026 via PayPal) |
| 3 | October 1, 2027 through September 30, 2028 | $75 USD (automatically charged October 1, 2027 via PayPal) |
| Total: | $225 USD | |
You can cencel the subscription at any time. Your installation will be available until the end of the current year (e.g., if you cancel in the second year, the subscription will end at the end of the second year).
A month or so prior to the end of year three of the subcription, you'll receive an email inviting you to renew for another three-year subscription. Renewal payments must be received within two weeks of the renewal date. After that, the site will be taken offline. Data will be archived for one year just in case.
Please note: currently, no new subscriptions are being offered. Please check back at a later time or request to be placed on the the hosting waitlist via the Contact form.
Homebrewing and the surrounding community have given me a lot. I've met some really incredible people through my hobby, and I have seen how hard some of those people work to pull off organizing local, regional, and national competitions.
In short, I saw a need for organizing competition entry data and produced BCOE&M, a free product, to fill that need.
However, some who see a use for BCOE&M do not have the resources (e.g., web server space, technical know-how, etc.) to take advantage of its features, so I came up with the hosting idea. For a low yearly fee to offset bandwidth costs, competitions can utilize the advantages of BCOE&M without the set-up, implementation, and hardware headaches.
BCOE&M itself and hosting it are my way of giving back to the community that has afforded me so much support over the years.
Cheers,
Geoff Humphrey
Developer, BCOE&M