Draft BrewFest 2026

Thank you for your interest in the Draft BrewFest 2026 organized by Dayton Regional Amateur Fermentation Technologists, Dayton Ohio.

You only need to register your information once and can return to this site to enter more brews or edit the brews you've entered. You can even pay your entry fees online if you wish.

Entry Registration is Open

12 entries have been added to the system as of 1:28 AM, EDT, Monday, March 30, 2026. There is a limit of 250 entries for this competition.

4 paid entries are in the system as of 1:28 AM, EDT, Monday, March 30, 2026. There is a limit of 250 paid entries for this competition.

To add your entries into the system, please proceed through the registration process or log in if you already have an account.

Judge and Steward Registration is Open

If you have not registered and are willing to be a volunteer, please register.

If you have registered, log in and then choose Edit Account from the My Account menu indicated by the icon on the top menu.

Rules

Two bottles or cans for each beer entry, 1 bottle or can only for Meads and Cider flights as they are not included in the beer BOS judging. Judges & stewards please alert the competition organizer if you cannot deliver/ship entries by the drop off deadline date of Sept 20th. We would like to have all entries received by Sept 20th, for processing and sorting on Sept 21st. This will allow for some early flight judging throughout the week ahead of Saturday the 27th as needed.

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 the day of 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.

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 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 for beer categories. Meads and Ciders will be awarded with medals for place 1st through 3rd in their respective categories, but will not take part in BOS judging along with beers.

Bottles will not be returned to entrants.

Competition Official

You can send an email to any of the following individuals via Contact.

• Nathan Pahl — Competition Coordinator