Thank you for your interest in the Motown Mash organized by Morris Area Society of Homebrewers, The American Legion - Post 91 - 99 N Main St, Wharton, NJ 07885.

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

240 entries have been added to the system as of 8:30 PM, EDT, Monday, September 9, 2024. There is a limit of 250 entries for this competition.

165 paid entries are in the system as of 8:30 PM, EDT, Monday, September 9, 2024. There is a limit of 250 paid entries for this competition.

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Judge and Steward Registration is Open

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Rules

This competition is AHA sanctioned and open to any amateur homebrewer age 21 or older. Judging will be based off of the 2021 BJCP Style Guidelines with all categories of beer, mead and cider accepted.

All entries will be picked up from drop-off locations on Saturday September 14th. The drop off deadline is 5:00 pm on September 13th. All entries must be hand-delivered to one of the drop off locations. Entries shipped via a UPS, FedEx, USPS, etc., will not be accepted.

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, 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. Judges have discretion to award ranks as they determine regardless of score for each category. Large flights may be combined through a mini-BOS round to award ranks. 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 unless otherwise specified.

The competition committee reserves the right to combine categories based on number of entries. When combining categories is necessary, similar styles and characteristics will be considered. 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 Acceptance Rules

Number of Bottles Required Per Entry: 2

Each entry will consist of capped or corked bottles that are void of all identifying information, including labels and embossing. Printed caps are allowed, but must be blacked out completely.

Brewers must submit two (2) bottles for each entry. Entries with only one bottle submitted will be judged at their respective category table but may not be eligible for best of show.

12oz brown glass bottles are preferred; however, green and clear glass will be accepted. Swing top bottles, corked bottles, 22oz bombers and cans will likewise be accepted however this requires special handling and are not preferred.

Each bottle must have the appropriate competition bottle label affixed to it using rubber bands. Do not tape or glue labels to bottles. Bottles that have their labels affixed using any method besides rubberbands will not be accepted.

Bottles will not be returned to contest entrants.

Please fill out the entry forms completely. Be thoughful and complete in noting any special ingredients that must be specified. Failure to note such ingredients may impact the judges' scoring of your entry.

Brewers are not limited to one entry in each category but may only enter each subcategory once unless otherwise specified.