Thought we’d talk about something different this week and draw attention to a different type of competition that’s out there on the inter webs and has been gaining some tracking since it started. This week we highlight the SJPORR Challenge.

SJPORR is a Youtube vlogger that is credited with the Homebrew Wednesday idea. He started the idea that all these hombrew vloggers should start posting their videos on Wednesday. It started a pretty interesting community of online homwbrewers. There is even a whole community website centered around these brewers at BREWTUBERS.NET! (In the interest on full disclosure we aren’t necessarily part of this group in any real way. We post our videos on Wednesday and that’s how I originally realized there was a whole Wednesday group of brewtubers out there. My hats off to those guys and the very cool community they are building.)

Anyway, SJPORR sponsors an annual home brewing challenge. This year’s challenge focuses on session beers; defined as less than 4.5% ABV. The way it works is that all participants send beers into a central hub. The organizers shuffle the beers around and send new beers back out to each participant. They then taste, evaluate and score the beers sent to them using an online feedback form. Scores are tabulated and the top three beers progress to the next round competing with beers from a different scoring region.

The unique thing is that this is a competition where the brewers of the beers are also the judges of the beers. So its a true give and take process. Pretty cool. This years top prize is to have your recipe converted into a brew craft kit and sold as part of BrewCraft’s Signature Series Recipe Kits line up wherever those kits are sold. Even cooler!

Enough blabbing. Watch the video to learn more from us. Seek out the SJPORR Challenge Website for the real details. But act fast you have to register by the end of August!!! Yikes. Pretty sure I’ll be sending in a beer if its ready in the next week or so!

Cheers!