Entry registration is now open for Brew Slam 2025! Register and pay for your entries ASAP to avoid missing your chance to enter this once per year homebrew competition!

The entry registration and submission deadline is Saturday Oct. 18th. The fee to enter is $15/entry, or $12/entry for GTA Brews Members (see below). Visit our Rules and Submission Instructions page for all the details about submitting your entry.

GTA Brews Discount Code: ($3 discount per entry, must be logged-in to see)

As of today, we have over $10,500 in prizes up for grabs, and more prizes being secured by our Brew Slam Crew every day!

Here’s some highlights to help grab your attention!

• Spike CF-5 Fermenter (Sponsored by Toronto Brewing for TBOY)
  • Toronto Brewer Of The Year (GTA Brews member with most points in competition)
• Discounted entry fee for GTA Brews Members sponsored by ITS Office Pro *New for 2025*
• INKBIRD Temp Controllers and Thermometers
• Boel iTap from Beer Grains
• RAPT hydrometers / thermometers from Kegland
• LOTS of yeast, hops, and MORE!
• Visit Brew Slam 2025 Sponsors, Awards, & Prizes for the full list!

We have some incredible medals designed by James Kennedy for 2025, and we can’t wait to award them to the winners!

In addition to an incredible prize pool for winners, here’s some other reasons you should enter your homebrew in Brew Slam 2025!

• Quality feedback!
  • Canada’s largest BJCP judge pool
  • Including multiple National and high level ranked judges
  • Low flight size per judge to reinforce quality feedback
  • Long form scoresheets to reinforce meaningful and specific feedback
• Award Categories announced in advance (Brew Slam 2025 Award Categories)
• Toronto Brewer of the Year title awarded to GTA Brews member with most medal points
• Jon Mains Award awarded to the top overall entrant with most medal points
• Medal Categories sponsored by local breweries with expertise in that style of beer
  • Many of them also supplying Pro Brewer guest judge(s) to supplement BJCP judges for those categories
• Entrant support available through our BJCP Competition Guide and over email at comp@gtabrews.ca when deciding how to register your entry!

Thanks for reading!

Cheers,
Eric Cousineau
Competition Organizer, Brew Slam 2025

Inquiries about Brew Slam 2025 should be sent to: comp@gtabrews.ca

Click Here to go to the main competition page.

Click Here to go to the main competition page.

Press Release

August 12th, 2025 – Toronto, ON

Inquiries about Brew Slam 2025 should be sent to: comp@gtabrews.ca

GTA Brews is excited to announce our eight annual nation-wide homebrew competition for beer, mead, and cider: Brew Slam 2025 (#BrewSlam)!

#BrewSlam is Canada’s largest homebrew competition, with hundreds of entrants from Canada and the USA. We can’t wait to build on 2024’s massive success. That competition saw 552 entries from 140 entrants representing 8/10 provinces, judged by 60 judges over just 3 days, which made it the largest homebrew competition in Canada!

As of Aug 12th, we have already secured over $8,700 in prizes from our fabulous sponsors. We expect this will increase significantly over the next few weeks leading up to the competition. We also have a brand new medal design to present to the winners!

To make this competition a success we need as many judges and stewards as possible. Please visit our Volunteer page to learn what is involved and for instructions on how to sign up.

Effective immediately, the per-entrant cap for Brew Slam 2024 has been raised 10 entries per person!

There are just over 4 weeks left until the entry deadline for Brew Slam 2024! Get your entries registered today to avoid missing out!

As of today, we have over $16,390 in prizes up for grabs, and more prizes being secured by our Brew Slam Crew every day!

Here’s some highlights to help grab your attention!

• Spike CF-5 Fermenter (Sponsored by Toronto Brewing for TBOY)
  • Toronto Brewer Of The Year (GTA Brews member with most points in competition)
• 6 Gallon Oak Barrel from County Cooperage
• Tilt Pro hydrometer
• Boel iTap
• LOTS of yeast from Escarpment and Lallemand for all medal winners!
• RAPT hydrometers / thermometers from Kegland
• Stainless steel kettles!
• Lots more! Visit Brew Slam 2024 Sponsors, Awards, & Prizes for the full list!

We have some incredible medals designed by James Kennedy for 2024, and we can’t wait to award them to the winners!

In addition to an incredible prize pool for winners, here’s some other reasons you should enter your homebrew in Brew Slam 2024!

• Quality feedback!
  • Canada’s largest BJCP judge pool
  • Including multiple National and high level ranked judges
  • Low flight size per judge to reinforce quality feedback
  • Long form scoresheets to reinforce meaningful and specific feedback
• Get your beer judged by our guest Fred Mullner
  • BJCP Grandmaster III and Mid-Atlantic Regional Rep!
• Award Categories announced in advance (Brew Slam 2024 Award Categories)
• Toronto Brewer of the Year title awarded to GTA Brews member with most medal points
• Jon Mains Award awarded to the top overall entrant with most medal points
• Medal Categories sponsored by local breweries with expertise in that style of beer
  • Many of them also supplying Pro Brewer guest judge(s) to supplement BJCP judges for those categories
• Entrant support available through our BJCP Competition Guide and over email at comp@gtabrews.ca when deciding how to register your entry!

Thanks for reading!

Cheers,
Eric Cousineau
Competition Organizer, Brew Slam 2024

Inquiries about Brew Slam 2024 should be sent to: comp@gtabrews.ca

Click Here to go to the main competition page.

Click Here to go to the main competition page.

Press Release

August 18th, 2024 – Toronto, ON

Inquiries about Brew Slam 2024 should be sent to: comp@gtabrews.ca

GTA Brews is excited to announce our seventh annual nation-wide homebrew competition for beer, mead, and cider: Brew Slam 2024 (#BrewSlam)!

#BrewSlam is Canada’s largest homebrew competition, with hundreds of entrants from Canada and the USA. We can’t wait to build on 2023’s massive success. That competition saw 502 entries from 159 entrants representing 9/10 provinces, judged by 55 judges over just 3 days, which made it the largest homebrew competition in Canada!

We are excited to announce that our special guest judge for 2024 is Fred Mullner! He is a highly skilled BJCP Grandmaster III judge hailing from Pennsylvania, as well as BJCP rep for the Mid-Atlantic region.

As of Aug 18th, we have already secured over $10,740 in prizes from our fabulous sponsors. We expect this will increase significantly over the next few weeks leading up to the competition. We also have a brand new medal design to present to the winners!

To make this competition a success we need as many judges and stewards as possible. Please visit our Volunteer page to learn what is involved and for instructions on how to sign up.

Click Here to go to the main competition page.

Press Release

September 1st, 2023 – Toronto, ON

Inquiries about Brew Slam 2023 should be sent to: comp@gtabrews.ca

GTA Brews is excited to announce our sixth annual nation-wide homebrew competition for beer, mead, and cider: Brew Slam 2023 (#BrewSlam)!

The competition has been on hiatus since 2019 due to the global pandemic and the club is so excited to finally bring the competition back for 2023! We are so thankful for the entrants and judges that reached out to us the past few years to express their desire to see the competition come back, and we can’t wait to return to building on 2019’s massive success. That competition saw 819 entries from 281 entrants representing 9/10 provinces, judged by 77 judges over just 3 days, which made it the largest homebrew competition in Canada!

We are ecstatic to have homebrewing luminary Annie Johnson attending as our guest judge of honour (Oct 27-29) to help ring in our 6th year!

Click Here to go to the main competition page.

Press Release

August 26th, 2019 – Toronto, ON

Inquiries about Brew Slam 2019 should be sent to: comp@gtabrews.ca

GTA Brews is excited to announce our fifth annual, nation-wide, homebrew competition for beer, mead, and cider; Brew Slam 2019 (#BrewSlam)! We are excited to build on last year’s massive success which saw 826 entries, from 191 entrants, in 8/10 provinces, judged by 75 judges, over just 3 days, making this the largest homebrew competition in Canada! We are ecstatic to have John Palmer attending as our guest of honour (Nov 8-10) to help ring in our 5th year!

This is a BJCP sanctioned competition, and also part of the Canadian Brewer of the Year (BOTY) circuit. The judging will take place at Amsterdam Brewery (Leaside) from Nov 8th to 10th. Judging will be performed by BJCP ranked judges and pro brewers, using the BJCP 2015 Guidelines and Provisional Styles.

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