Starting in December 2013 the game includes Beer Style Competitions or "Contests". To learn more about contests visit the Instructions page:contests

Beer style competitions are judged by players. Players can become a judge at anytime and can submit themselves as a judge in a particular contest as long as they do not have a beer label entered in that contest. Judges can "Make a Decision" about a contest anytime prior to the contest close by submitting scores. The total judge points available to a player are divided among the contest entrants.

Judge eligibility

• You must be a registered player
• You must have a minimum of $500 brew money in the bank to qualify
• You must pay a one time Judge Certification fee of $100 in brew money Free! For a limited time.
• Becoming a judge does not automatically enter you as a judge in a particular contest, see "Judging a Contest" below

Judge points

• 10 Judge points are awarded when you become a judge
• 10 Judge points are awarded for every individual contest you judge
• Players can elect to take periodic training tests to increase judge points
• Answering a test question correctly earns you points, you receive more points for testing on higher quality beers
• Points awarded in a contest are not lost, they fully recover for the next contest.
• Judge points permanently dissappear on any day you do not take a test. Players with accumulated judge points equal to or greater than 2000 will lose 25 points on any day that they do not take a test. Similarly, players with accumulated judge points equal to or greater than 1000 will lose 10 points and players with equal to or greater than 500 accumulated judge points will lose 5 points on any day that they do not take a test. Players with less than 500 points only lose 1 point per day on any day that they do not take a test.
• If you are a judge in the current contest then your points DO NOT go down.

Training

• Players can elect to take periodic training tests to increase judge points
• To be eligible for a test a player must drink a minimum of 5 unique beers within a 1 hour period
• To qualify as unique the beer must not be one of the players beers, an admin beer, or stock beer
• To qualify as unique the beer must not have been the subject of a test in the last week
• Tests can only be taken a maximum once per hour
• Tests cannot be refreshed, once a test is loaded the 1 hour clock starts whether you answer the test or not
• Training is only available when a contest is underway

Judging a contest and "Making a Decision"

• You can elect to judge any contest in which you don't have a label entered
• You can elect to judge a particular contest at anytime prior to the contest close
• Once you elect to judge a contest you cannot change your mind and you cannot enter beer in that contest
• It is not necessary to "Make a Decision" at the time you elect to judge a contest, you may do so at anytime prior to the contest close.
• Once you make your decision and award your judge points they cannot be altered, subsequent changes to your total judge points will not count in the contest
• When making a decision you can award less than your total judge points, the remaining points are lost (for that contest) and cannot be awarded later.