The MCAB is open to all brewers who are certified as having won first place in a MCAB Qualifying Style at a MCAB Qualifying Event. Entrants may enter the MCAB only in the Qualifying Styles for which they have been certified as a Qualifying Event winner, and may enter only one beer per Qualifying Style regardless of how many times they qualify. 2002 BJCP Styles 1 ~ 20 are qualifying styles.

An entrant to the MCAB must comply with all applicable state and national laws regarding the home production of beer, including age restrictions and general prohibitions. Beers entered in the MCAB must not be produced using any commercial brewery. This term is defined as any brewing that takes place (1) on the premises of any brewery operating under a brewing permit issued by the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (or the Canadian equivalent of the BATF), or any state or provincial commercial brewing permit or license, or (2) on a pilot brewery owned or operated by any commercial or educational entity, regardless of location. The following are NOT considered to be prohibited commercial production: (1) use of grain milled on commercial equipment, (2) use of yeast obtained, in any quantity, from a commercial brewery, or (3) beer brewed at "brew on premises" operations if the entrant is permitted to and does in fact perform 100% of the labor required in all aspects of the brewing operations.

If a Qualifying Event certifies a team of brewers as having won first place in a Qualifying Style, the team shall be considered a single entrant for the MCAB. However, all members of the team must complete and sign the entry form.

Each entrant is asked to fill out the downloadable entry form below, and include the recipe(s) in a printed format of their choosing (brewing software, spreadsheet, word doc, ect..). Entrants must deliver completed copies of these forms and at least three bottles of each beer entered to the location and by the deadlines set by the MCAB organizers. Failure to timely submit the beers and all entry materials shall be grounds for the MCAB organizers, in their sole discretion, to disqualify an Entrant from the MCAB. Extension to these deadlines may be granted at the sole discretion of the MCAB organizers. The entry form will require each Entrant to certify that (1) he did, in fact, brew the beers he is entering in the MCAB; (2) the beers entered in the MCAB were brewed legally and according to all state and local laws applicable to him, and (3) his entered beers were not brewed using any commercial brewery, as defined above. The recipe and brewer's personal information sheets will include a grant of permission and a nonexclusive license to the MCAB and its assigns to reproduce any and all information and materials contained in them.

There is no entry fee for qualified brewers to enter MCAB-V.

Submit three (3) unmarked brown or green 10 - 14 ounce bottles. Bottles should have no raised lettering and bottle caps should be plain or blackened out. Raised lettering that is obviously a manufacturing or a date code (example 34ZZER-5) is permitted. EZ-Cap (Grolsch) style bottles will not be accepted.

Each bottle must have an identifying label attached with a rubber band (no tape or glue) and each entry must be accompanied by an entry form.

It is the entrant's responsibility to enter their beer in the correct category. The competition organizers will NOT re-classify an entry.

Entries should be shipped to: