Thank you for your interest in the West Coast Best Coast 2025 organized by Twickenham Beer Boars.

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 West Coast Best Coast 2025!

There are 84 registered entries and 84 registered participants, judges, and stewards.

As of 12:49, BST, there are 41 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 open to any amateur homebrewer age 18 or older. NB This competition is only for amateur brewers, if you own or run a commercial brewery then please do not enter as you will be disqualified. If you are a brewer at a commercial brewery owned by someone else then you are free to enter any beer you have personally brewed at home, however, may be excluded from winning some prizes at the discretion of the company offering the prize, e.g. a brew day at a commercial brewery. 

For brewery owners and commerical releases please see details of our Pro-Brewer and Commercial cateogory details lower down this page. 

All mailed entries must be received at the mailing location by the shipping deadline - please allow for shipping time.

Shipping / Drop Off Info:

Entries must arrive between 3 and 13 June.
Entries received before / after this may not be judged. 

Shipping / Drop Off Location

Fraser Withers
c/o Noble Green Wines,
153-155 High Street,
Hampton Hill,
TW12 1NL

Monday: Closed
Tuesday - Saturday: 10am - 7pm
Sunday: 11am - 5pm

Where possible please add opening times to the delivery notes so couriers know when the shop is open. 

With the shipping location being closed on Mondays please try to ship to arrive Tuesday to Friday with your courier.
If delivery is attempted on a Monday then you will need to arrange redelivery, we won't able to to collect from a courier depot on your behalf. 

For the recipient email please add hello@beerboars.co.uk if the courier system asks for one. 

Please do not ship / drop off entries at Jawbone Brewing where the judging is taking place.

All entry places have now been taken, if you've missed out then please email hello@beerboars.co.uk to be added to a waiting list and we'll be in touch if any entries open up due to cancelations or we add more places.  

Entries may be edited up until the shipping window opens. Reminders will be sent closer to the time, but please ensure to add hello@beerboars.co.uk to your safe enderr list to avod emails being sent to you spam / junk folders.

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 organisers are not responsible for mis-categorised entries, mailed entries that are not received by the entry deadline, or entries that arrived damaged.

The competition organisers 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.

Entries will be assessed against the BJCP Style Guidelines 2021 available via this link PDF.

However, the emphasis is on West Coast styles and the judges will be scoring in favour of beers that have a signature “west coast” expression  - so please take note when selecting your hops. 

What defines a West Coast style compared with other IPA or APA styles? There isn’t an exact  BJCP definition but will be looking for clear, bitter and hoppy. Flavour and aroma wise we typically expect one or more of pine, resin, citrus and tropical fruit.  

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

For styles that are not currently included in the BJCP guidelines, including but not limited to West Coast Pils, TIPA & QIPA please enter in the 'Other West Coast Styles' category. Unlike other categories, you may enter more than one beer in this sub-category up to your entry limit. However, they should be distinct styles from one another. For example a TIPA & Black TIPA, or a TIPA & West Coast Pils. 

The competition committee reserves the right to combine overall style categories based on the number of entries. All possible efforts 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.

Entry fees are not refundable. 

Pro-Brewers / Commerical Brewery Competition

Pro-Brewers / Commerical Breweries may enter our separate Pro-Brewer West Coast Competition. These may include commerical releases, experimental or pilot kit batches not yet released. This will be run separate to the homebrew competition with all entries being judges in one category. Pro-Brewer entries are not eligable for prizes or best in show places, but will receive medals and or certificates for winning entries. 

The Pro-Brewer category is free for breweries to enter, but we would require 6-12 cans / bottles of the beer being entered. 2-3 cans / bottles will be used for judging. The remainder would be used for prizes for winning homebrew entries. 

Pro-brewers may enter an unlimited number of beers, however we would still require 6-12 cans / bottles per beer entered.


If you wish to enter this category please do not sign up using the main entry form, please email hello@beerboars.co.uk for more information.

Judging Sessions

Judging Session
Saturday 21 June, 2025 10:00, BST

Competition Officials

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

• Stew Horne — Head Judge
• Simon Thompson — Head Steward
• Fraser Withers — Sponsorship & Prize Co-Ordinator
• Rick Woolliss — Admin & Communications

Sponsors

Twickenham Beer Boars is proud to have the following sponsors for the West Coast Best Coast 2025.

Jawbone Brewing

Strawberry Hill

Tucked away in a sleepy, riverside spot in south-west London, Jawbone Brewing is the new craft brewery making a big noise. It’s here you’ll find founder Ben Hughes experimenting with bold, innovative ideas, providing the spark that brings people together. Born in a boatyard, enjoyed everywhere.

The Malt Miller

Swindon

Established in 2010 by Rob Neale, driven by his discovery of the joy of homebrewing beer. Rob’s passion for brewing the best beer at home and sourcing the finest ingredients directly from suppliers led to the founding of the business. This passion for freshness and high-quality ingredients, along with a commitment to serving the creative and enthusiastic homebrewing community, are the cornerstones of the business today.

Charles Faram

Newland, Worcestershire

Charles Faram have been hop merchants for 160 years and the grower owners have been growing hops for longer than that. The Worcestershire based company sits right in the heart of the largest UK hop growing region. Stocking the largest range of hop varieties in the UK from across the continents, in both nitrogen flushed leaf, T45 and Type 90 pellets. Continuously innovative and championing sustainability worldwide, they have their own dedicated development programme producing new and exclusive varieties every year. Charles Faram – Helping Brewers Create Great Beer

Middle Child Brewing

Molesey, Surrey

A nano brewery based in Molesey, Surrey, just the other side of the river to Hampton Court Palace, which was started in 2021 by ex-world champion home-brewer Fraser Withers. He has taken his passion and talent and created a range of beers that have been amazing critics and judges ever since.

Twickenham Beer Boars

Twickenham

Beer Boars are a collective of home brewers & beer ethusiasts. We’re a friendly, laid back club. More devoted to enjoying making beer, discussing beer in a friendly, constructive and non-judgemental way. We have chapters in East & West London as well as Twickenham.

Uiltje Brewing Company

Haarlem, Netherlands

Your moment of escape in a crazy, stressful world Driven by mischief and a possessed mission to make freakin good beer, we play with the boundaries of the hop playing field. Not craft but crafty beers with sharp, uncompromising flavor. From our medieval city of Haarlem, we play with the extreme and decode beer with a hacker's appetite for provocation. Bold beers from a little owl sticking its tongue out at the mindless masses. Welcome home, friend. Welcome home!

WHC Lab

Wicklow, Ireland

WHC Lab is a biotechnology business focused on fermentation within the beverage industry. Their R&D facility boasts best in class laboratory equipment, experts in the industry and uses next-generation methods to grow yeast, bacteria and to perform analysis.