Brewers Association presents the 4th Annual Great American BEER FESTIVALSM PRO-AM COMPETITION Pro-Am Competition The Brewers Association and the American Homebrewers Association are proud to present the Fourth Annual GABF Pro-Am Competition of the Great American Beer Festival. All information for both professional and homebrewers can be found at www.GABFregistration.com Commercial Brewery Rules: 1. Breweries that have entered at least ONE brand in the GABF competition/festival and will have a booth on the festival floor are eligible to enter a beer in the Pro-Am Competition. Breweries are not allowed to enter ONLY the Pro-Am Competition. 2. Beers entered in the GABF Pro-Am competition must be commercially available. Commercially available means the entered brand has been available for sale at retail before August 24, 2009. All GABF eligibility rules apply to Pro-Am entries. 3. Beer entered in the Pro-Am competition must be available on the floor of the GABF and cannot be entered solely as a “judge only” entry. Pro-Am beer will be served at a designated GABF Pro-Am booth on the festival floor, thus will not be counted toward the maximum number of beers that can be served at the brewery’s booth. However the brewery may choose to offer the Pro-Am beer as one of their five floor beers at their brewery’s booth as well. Each beer entered in the Pro-Am competition will be served during one of the four tasting ses- sions. Breweries may request an additional 1⁄6 bbl MicroStar keg for their Pro-Am beer to be served at the Pro-Am booth. 4. Breweries may determine the homebrew recipes they scale up in one of three ways: a. Select an award winning homebrew from an American Homebrewers Association (AHA)/Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP) sanctioned homebrew competition held on or after January 1, 2008. b. Organize your own AHA/BJCP sanctioned competition. c. Partner with a local homebrew club to organize an AHA/BJCP sanctioned competition. See our Events Calendar (www.beertown.org/homebrewing/calendar/events.aspx) for a calendar of up-com- ing AHA/BJCP sanctioned competitions or go to www.bjcp.org/apps/comp_reg/comp_reg.html to register a competition. Breweries may wish to partner with a local homebrew club or homebrew supply shop if they wish to organize their own competition. Contact Janis Gross, American Homebrewers Association Project Coordinator at 888-822-6273 x134 or [email protected] for information about local homebrew clubs and homebrew supply shops. 5. Breweries may choose to restrict entries to categories they are reasonably able to brew. For example, breweries may choose not to accept recipes for fruit beers, sour beers, or beers requiring extended aging, etc. 6. The homebrewer brewing their recipe with the professional brewery CANNOT be an employee of that brew- ery or on the brewing staff at any brewery. 7. Breweries will brew the winning beer from the recipe submitted by the winning homebrewer. The winning homebrewer must be an AHA member at the time they enter the homebrew competition and must have a valid AHA membership at the time of the GABF. All brewery entrants must be members of the Brewers Associa- tion. 8. Limited modifications are allowed to accommodate the scale of commercial brewing and ingredients available to the brewery. 9. All entrants, both professional and amateur brewers, must sign a licensing agreement, which limits and pro- tects the way the GABF trademark is used prior to the submission of entries to the GABF. 10. There will be a $25 charge for GABF Pro-Am Competition entries, which will cover the cost of awards, etc. 11. No more than one entry per brewery will be accepted in the GABF Pro-Am Competition. 12. No more then 96 total entries will be accepted for this competition. Entries will be accepted first come, first served based on when entry registrations are received by the Brewers Association. 13. GABF Pro-Am entries will compete in a best-of-show style judging, during the regular GABF judging. The GABF Style Guidelines and GABF judge panel will be used for the judging. Entering brewers must provide the appropriate GABF category name and number along with any requested supplemental information for the entry to be judged correctly. Entries that do not include this information will not be accepted. 14. Judges will determine the top three entries in the GABF Pro-Am Competition, which will be awarded Gold, Silver, and Bronze GABF Pro-Am Competition medals during the GABF awards ceremony, held September 26, 2009. Medals will be issued to both the winning brewery and the winning homebrewer. 15. The Pro-Am medals will not count towards “Brewery of the Year” awards, and therefore, will not be counted among the eight entries allowable for Brewery of the Year points..