Virginia Craft Beer Cup

Thank you for your interest in the Virginia Craft Beer Cup organized by The Virginia Craft Brewers Guild, hosted at Hidden Wit Brewing Co (21110 Hull Street Rd N Moseley, VA 23120).

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.

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

The Virginia Craft Beer Cup is open to Virginia Craft Brewers Guild Members ONLY.

In order to participate in the Cup competition all outstanding Guild membership dues must be paid prior to registration. If you have not yet paid your dues, you can do so using our Online Payment Form.

VCBG Craft breweries are defined as Small (annual production of 6 million barrels of beer or less), independent (less than 25% of the craft brewery is owned or controlled (or equivalent economic interest) by an alcoholic beverage industry member that is not itself a craft brewer) and traditional (a brewer that has a majority of its total beverage alcohol volume in beers whose flavor derives from traditional or innovative brewing ingredients and their fermentation. Flavored malt beverages are not considered beers). If your brewery falls into this desgination but is not a VCBG member, you can join today using our Online Membership Application.

All beers entered in the Virginia Craft Beer Cup must be produced in Virginia and commercially available.

Cup Competition Fee

Registration is $100 per beer entry, up to 4 total entries.

What Does Your Fee Get You?

Registration fees include the submission of up to 4 beers to be judged. Registration fees are non-refundable.

Each VCBG member is limited to a total of 4 beers per brewery membership, not by the number of brewery locations you may have. If you have more than one brewery location, your 4 beer entries may be brewed at any of those locations.

Your registration fee also grants your brewery 2 complimentary tickets to attend the VCBG Gala. Only breweries who submit 3 or more beers to this year's Competition will be eligible to receive their free tickets. Tickets may be used by any of your staff, and additional tickets are available for purchase. Check out the VCBG website for information about the annual gala.

Entry Acceptance Rules

Number of Bottles Required Per Entry: 4

Beer Submission Rules

You must submit a sample for EACH beer registered. You may use one of the recommended following 3 options for each entry:

1. Four 12/16/22 oz. bottles
2. Four 12/16/22 oz. cans
3. Four Crowlers

Submitting less than the recommended amount may limit beer being available for later rounds of judging. Growlers will be accepted but are not recommended for the competition.

Label Instructions

Every bottle, can, growler, or crowler MUST have a label on it or it can not be entered into the competition. Make sure the information on the label matches the entry registration information exactly and is properly affixed to your entry using rubber bands. The BCOE&M software will provide you labels to print and place on your submission.

Competition Officials

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

• Amanda A. Kersey — Guild Staff
• Charlie Harr — Competition Coordinator/Head Judge
• Kimberly Noonan — VCBG Member Services Director
• Jenna Wines — Communications & Digital Marketing Manager