Puget Sound Pro-Am Competition

Here are details from the WAHA website on the Puget Sound Pro-Am. This competition gives you the chance to have your beer brewed by a participating professional brewery and is a qualifying event for the Great American Beer Festival Pro-Am competition. Last year nearly 20% of the national entries, including the national winner, came out of the Puget Sound Pro-Am. Check out the BEWBC website for a list of the participating breweries, drop-off locations for entries, and full contest rules. From the WAHA site:

2009 Puget Sound Pro-Am

On behalf of BEWBC, the Impaling Alers, and WAHA, we are happy to announce the kick-off of the 2009 Puget Sound Pro-Am! This is the country's largest GABF Pro-Am qualifying competition with 10+ breweries selecting homebrew recipes to scale up (more breweries still being added!) Last year the PSPA sent 11 of the country's 58 entries into the GABF Pro-Am and brought home the gold medal! We are hoping for a repeat!

This is an AHA/BJCP sanctioned competition aimed at providing award winning homebrew recipes to be brewed by Puget Sound breweries with the goal of capturing a medal from the Great American Beer Festival's Pro-Am Competition. The Puget Sound Pro-Am is unique in that it will have at least a dozen breweries selecting their favorite homebrew beers from the best of show round to scale up and brew on their systems. Winning beers of AHA members may be sent on to the GABF for a shot at national glory! Non-AHA members can still enter the competition and win other awards and prizes (the Powerhouse Brewery will not be submitting to the GABF and will be free to pick any entry). Go to http://www.bewbc.org/pro-am for the complete competition overview. This is a 2009 Washington Homebrewer of the Year Qualifying Competition so get your entries in!