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Thank you for your interest in the Colonial Cup 2025 organized by Lowcountry Libtions.

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.

Thanks and Good Luck To All Who Entered the Colonial Cup 2025!

There are 175 registered entries and 170 registered participants, judges, and stewards.

As of 10:23 PM, EDT, there are 0 received and processed entries (this number will update as entries are picked up from drop-off locations and organized for judging).

Rules

This competition is AHA sanctioned and open to any amateur homebrewer age 21 or older.

There will be 175 entries total allowed in the competition.

A maximum of 6 entriesĀ will be accepted per participant.

Entries will be accepted in rounds, to ensure that as many participants as possible can get beers in. Each round will accept 2 beers per entrant.

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.

This is a beer only competition, we will not be judging mead or cider.

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 overall style 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.

Bottles will not be returned to entrants.

Judging Sessions and Dates

Pre-Competition Judging Session
Friday, April 18, 2025 12:00 AM, EDT through Friday, April 25, 2025 11:00 PM, EDT

Saturday Morning Session
Saturday, April 26, 2025 8:00 AM, EDT

Saturday Afternoon Session
Saturday, April 26, 2025 1:00 PM, EDT

Competition Official

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

  • Sean Murphy — Competition Coordinator

Sponsors

Lowcountry Libtions is proud to have the following sponsors for the Colonial Cup 2025.

LO-Fi Brewing
North Charleston, SC
LO-Fi Brewing
Crosby Hop Farm
18564 Arbor Grove Rd NE, Woodburn, Oregon 97071
Crosby Hop Farm
Hollingbery & Son Inc
302 N First Avenue, Yakima WA 98902
Hollingbery & Son Inc
Hop Havoc
 
Hop Havoc
Hop Head Farms
4630 W. Hockory Road, Hickory Corners, MI 49060
Hop Head Farms
Roy Farms
401 Walters Rd, Moxee, WA 98936
Roy Farms
Spike Brewing
Milwaukee, WI
Spike Brewing
SS Brewtech
 
SS Brewtech
Yakima Quality Hops
5201 W. Chestnut Avenue Yakima WA 98908
Yakima Quality Hops
American Homebrew Association
Boulder, CO
American Homebrew Association
Baxter's Brewhouse Inn
824 Prince St, Georgetown, SC 29440
Baxter's Brewhouse Inn
Belgian Beer Me
P.O. Box 98, Gramd Marais, MI 49839
Belgian Beer Me
Fam's Brewing Co.
1291 Folly Rd, Charleston, SC 29412
Fam's Brewing Co.
Five Star Chemicals
Commerce City, CO
Five Star Chemicals
Highland Brewing Company
12 Old Charlotte Hwy #200, Asheville, NC 28803
Highland Brewing Company
Hobcaw Brewing Company
496 Long Point Rd, Mt Pleasant, SC 29464
Hobcaw Brewing Company
Hopsteiner
 
Hopsteiner
Indigo Reef Brewing
Charleston, SC
Indigo Reef Brewing
Lowcountry Craft DIstribution
Charleston, SC
Lowcountry Craft DIstribution
Oktober Design
 
Oktober Design
Tidal Creek Brewhouse
3421 Knoles St, Myrtle Beach, SC 29577
Tidal Creek Brewhouse
Two Blokes Brewing
547 Long Point Rd #101, Mt Pleasant, SC 29464
Two Blokes Brewing
Westbrook Brewing
Mt Pleasant, SC
Westbrook Brewing
Allagash Brewing Company
Portland, Maine
Allagash Brewing Company
Brew Your Own
Manchester Center, VT
Brew Your Own
ChemStation
 
ChemStation
Malteurop Malting
Milwaukee, WI
Malteurop Malting
Tilt Hydometer
 
Tilt Hydometer
Wyeast
 
Wyeast