Thank you for your interest in the Peach State Brew Off organized by Covert Hops Society, Atlanta, GA.

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 Peach State Brew Off!

There are 267 registered entries and 118 registered participants, judges, and stewards.

As of 4:34 PM, EST, 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

The Peach State Brew Off is the one of the oldest and largest AHA sanctioned competitions in the southeast. Our competition is open to any amateur homebrewer age 21 or older. The final judging session and awards ceremony will be on Saturday March 7, 2026.

In order to register as a judge or steward please use the Volunteer menu.

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—please have them there early as we cannot guarantee specific pick up times within the day. Additional dropoff locations are being confirmed--please check back soon for updates.

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.

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

Tagging Party
Saturday, February 14, 2026 10:00 AM, EST

Post Tagging Party Prelim #1
Saturday, February 14, 2026 12:00 PM, EST

Franklin
Saturday, February 21, 2026 9:00 AM, EST

Adelman
Saturday, February 28, 2026 9:00 AM, EST

Final Judging Session Tucker Recreation Center
Saturday, March 7, 2026 9:00 AM, EST

Competition Officials

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

• Joe McCusker — Organizer
• Clint Paden — Registrar

Sponsors

Covert Hops Society is proud to have the following sponsors for the Peach State Brew Off.

Brewers Supply Group Inc

Shakopee MN

Good Word Brewing

Duluth, GA

Lallemand

Montréal, QC

Riverbend Malt House

Asheville, NC