Coal Country Brewers' Cup 2026

Thank you for your interest in the Coal Country Brewers' Cup 2026 organized by Kanawha Valley Homebrew Club, Charleston, WV.

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.

Entry Registration is Open

12 entries have been added to the system as of 5:01 PM, EST, Sunday, March 1, 2026.

0 paid entries are in the system as of 5:01 PM, EST, Sunday, March 1, 2026.

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

This competition is AHA sanctioned and open to amateur homebrewers residing in the state of West Virginia age 21 or older.  

Subcategories are limited to.

Porters

9C Baltic Porter

13C English Porter

20A American Porter

Historical Beer: Pre-Prohibition Porter

Stouts

15B Irish Stout

15C Irish Extra Stout

16A Sweet Stout

16B Oatmeal Stout

16C Tropical Stout

16D Foreign Extra Stout

20B American Stout

20C Imperial Stout

Specialties

Categories 28-34 - Specialty beer must represent a porter or stout. Brewer must declare all specialty ingredients. Please see the 2021 BJCP beer style guidelines for information on entering a specialty category.

All entries must be received at the drop off location between 930-1030AM the day of the competition. 

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. 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.

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.

12oz brown glass bottles are preferred; however, green and clear glass will be accepted. Swing top bottles will likewise be accepted as well as corked bottles.

Bottles will not be returned to contest entrants.

All requisite paperwork must be submitted with each entry and can be printed directly from this website. Entry paperwork should be attached to bottles by the method specified on the bottle label.

Be meticulous about noting any special ingredients that must be specified. Failure to note such ingredients may impact the judges' scoring of your entry.

Competition Official

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

• Eric Weiss — Competition Coordinator