Thank you for your interest in the IPA Throwdown XVII organized by Appalachian Brew Club, Elkins, 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.

Thanks and Good Luck To All Who Entered the IPA Throwdown XVII!

There are 10 registered entries and 14 registered participants, judges, and stewards.

As of 1:06 PM, EDT, there are 10 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 amateur homebrewers residing in the state of West Virginia age 21 or older.  

Subcategories are limited to.

IPAs

12C English IPA

21A American IPA

21C Hazy IPA

22A Double IPA

21B Specialty IPA

-  Belgian IPA

-  Black IPA

-  Brown IPA

-  Red IPA

-  Rye IPA

-  White IPA

-  Brut IPA

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.

Judging Sessions

Brewstel
Saturday, June 6, 2026 11:00 AM, EDT

Competition Official

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

• Matt Hollen — Competition Coordinator

Sponsors

Appalachian Brew Club is proud to have the following sponsors for the IPA Throwdown XVII.

Big Timber Brewing

 

Brewstel

120 Davis Ave., Elkins, WV 26241

Fox Hops Brewery