Commercial Scale Up

[BoozeMedic]

I work for a microbrewery. I'm pitching the idea of having a year round rotating "best of local homebrew" beer that is a scale up from a homebrew competition. The basics would be limited entries, an entry fee, and a designated style and parameters. The winner's beer would be scaled up to 15 bbl's to start with and distributed to multiple popular vendors that we distribute to in a metro area. Competitions would likely be quarterly and beers would be created one time only.

The main point would be to showcase local homebrewer's creativity and to reward homebrewers for being experts in their craft. Entry fees would also be a small source of revenue for the brewery.

I'm wondering if anyone knows of any breweries currently doing this? Any advice would be appreciated.

 

[johnstod]

I was reading up on one of these for a London brewery the other week sadly I can't remember the name but iirc it was the same as how you describe

 

[johnstod]

Found it for you http://www.lovetobrew.co.uk/hbcompo

 

[BoozeMedic]

Awesome, thank you, sir

 

[stpug]

Most Pro/Am events and/or competitions fall into this category where the winner/BOS (or picked beer by brewery) gets scaled up for brewing a one-off by the brewery. Aside from that, I'm not aware of any breweries that are doing this on a quarterly basis, but the idea sounds cool for both the brewery as well as homebrewer.

 

[Nokt]

Check out Beerland on TV.

 

[SanPancho]

Bare bottle in SF. Was told tech dudes opened it by crowdsourcing recipes and then brewing them.

 

[bucketnative]

I might imagine that if it was a year-round brew, then the creator of the recipe, the homebrewer, might want a share of the revenue from that beer... You would definitely want to protect yourself in the paperwork up front. Get a lawyer to look that over.

 

[BoozeMedic]

I think the concept would be both (a) a one time, exclusive, here till it's gone thing, and (b) a permanent tap in various metro establishments that always has a rotating scaled up beer sourced from a local homebrewer.

 

[enkamania]

I'm part of a Coop brewery (Flying Bike in Seattle) and we do quarterly-ish competitions. The members vote on the winner. I won the summer ale competition and was able to brew it on a 7 bbl system.