Thank you for your interest in the 17th Annual ESB Home Brew Competition 2026 organized by Extra Special Brewers.

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 17th Annual ESB Home Brew Competition 2026!

There are 82 registered entries and 39 registered participants, judges, and stewards.

As of 11:07, AEST, there are 82 received and processed entries (this number will update as entries are picked up from drop-off locations and organized for judging).

Rules

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.)

All mailed entries must be received at the shipping location by the deadline - please allow for shipping time. All entries will be picked up from drop-off locations the day of the drop-off deadline.

The competition organisers are not responsible for entries entered into the wrong style, mailed entries that are not received by the entry deadline, or entries that arrive damaged.

Qualified judging of all entries is an important goal of our event. Judges will evaluate and score each entry. The consensus of the scores will be used to rank each entry in its category.

In the event of tied scores in determining the first places, this will be resolved either by the judging panel during judging or using a progressive countback until the tie is resolved based on: