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Thank you for your interest in Wortapalooza organized by Club Wort, Palatine, IL.

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 Wortapalooza!

There are 277 registered entries and 186 registered participants, judges, and stewards.

As of 11:31 PM, CDT, 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

This competition is AHA sanctioned and open to any amateur homebrewer age 21 or older.

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.

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.

Brewers are not limited to one entry in each category but may only enter each subcategory once.

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

Session 1 - Perfect Brewing Supply
Monday, June 16, 2025 7:00 PM, CDT

Session 2 - Church Street Brewing
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 7:00 PM, CDT

Session 3 - Phase Three Brewing (Lake Zurich)
Friday, June 20, 2025 7:00 PM, CDT

Session 4 - Phase Three Brewing (Lake Zurich)
Saturday, June 21, 2025 9:00 AM, CDT

Session 5 - Phase Three Brewing (Lake Zurich)
Saturday, June 21, 2025 12:00 PM, CDT

Session 6 - Phase Three Brewing (Lake Zurich)
Saturday, June 21, 2025 3:00 PM, CDT

Competition Official

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

  • Jim Silverstein — Organizer

Sponsors

Club Wort is proud to have the following sponsors for Wortapalooza.

Phase Three Brewing Company
Lake Zurich, IL + Elmhurst, IL
Phase Three Brewing Company
Phase Three is Wortapalooza's home base for the second year running, hosting three judging sessions, the awards ceremony, and storing a LOT of bottles of beer in their cooler.
Church Street Brewing
Itasca, IL
Church Street Brewing
Church Street has graciously agreed to host one of this year's judging sessions!
Perfect Brewing Supply
Libertyville, IL
Perfect Brewing Supply
Perfect Brewing Supply is serving both as our shipping location as well as a host to one of this year's judging sessions!
Anvil Brewing Systems
Lafayette, IN
Anvil Brewing Systems
Craft Beer & Brewing Magazine
Fort Collins, CO
Craft Beer & Brewing Magazine
Delta Brewing Systems
Downers Grove, IL
Delta Brewing Systems
Fermentis
Lille, France
Fermentis
HomeBrewer LAB
Sacramento, CA
HomeBrewer LAB
Inkbird
Shenzhen, China
Inkbird
Label Peelers Beer & Wine Making Supplies
Ravenna, OH
Label Peelers Beer & Wine Making Supplies
Lallemand
Montreal, QC
Lallemand
Milwaukee Instruments
Rocky Point, NC
Milwaukee Instruments
RahrBSG
Shakopee, MN
RahrBSG
Spike Brewing Equipment
Milwaukee, WI
Spike Brewing Equipment
Tilt
Santa Rosa, CA
Tilt
Wyeast Laboratories
Hood River, OR
Wyeast Laboratories