Circle City Zymurgy and Deviate Brewing invite you to participate in the only dice-based homebrew competition (that we know of). The Mash of Wonder Homebrew Competition requires brewers to test their bravery and trust the roll of the dice to determine their ingredients. Will your beer be a critical hit, or will you perish on the field of battle?

And for the first time, the winning entrant will get to brew his recipe and have it served at Deviate Brewing! They are always turning out some amazing, unusual beers there, and whatever wins should fit right in with their other offerings.





RULES:

Circle City Zymurgy club members have chosen 20 base malts, 40 specialty malts/adjuncts, 40 hop varieties, 20 yeasts, and 40 wild cards (fruit, spices, etc.). Participants will roll a twenty-sided die to determine their base malt (each number corresponds to a different base malt). Your base malt must make up at least 51% of your grain bill. The specialty malts and hops are randomly distributed over four twenty-sided die. Participants will roll to determine which grains, adjuncts, and hops are in their recipe. Lastly, yeast and wild cards are randomly distributed across three twenty-sided die, which participants will roll to determine which yeast and/or wild cards they get in their recipe.





After determining their eight ingredients, participants will roll one last twenty-sided die. This is their "saving throw", and based on what they roll, they can add or remove items from their recipe:

A roll of 2-7: You can ADD TWO ingredients, or REMOVE ONE ingredient from your recipe (can be anything)

A roll of 8-13: You can ADD THREE ingredients, or ADD ONE and REMOVE ONE ingredient from your recipe

A roll of 14-19: You can ADD FOUR ingredients, or ADD TWO and REMOVE ONE ingredient from your recipe

A roll of 20: CRITICAL HIT! You can ADD THREE ingredients and REMOVE TWO ingredients from your recipe. You lucky dog!

A roll of 1: CRITICAL MISS! The Recipe Master will make you roll one of the die again. Whatever you roll for must be added to your recipe. Sorry, bud.

We will roll for ingredients at our July club meeting at Deviate Brewing. If you cannot make it, do not worry. One of our attendees will roll on your behalf. We will also be Periscoping the proceedings, so you can follow along in absence. The full ingredients list will be available to view well ahead of the July meeting. As soon as everyone's roll is determined, we will email the results out to everyone. From there, it is up to you to craft your recipe using all of the ingredients you rolled for, plus whatever you got in your saving throw. This is not an official BJCP competition, however we are using BJCP entry forms and scoresheets to operate and judge the competition. Copies to these forms will be emailed out to all entrants. You are also allowed to put multiple entries into the competition, though you will have to roll for each and craft unique recipes for each entry. All beers must be entered under category 34C: Experimental Beer. TWO unlabeled 12 oz bottles need to be submitted for each entry (if you would like to submit more to sample out at our after-party, you are more than welcome to). Entries will be judged by a collection of BJCP judges and professional brewers, and a winner will be decided in a best of show round presided over by the brew team at Deviate.

FIRST PRIZE: You get to brew and have your recipe served at Deviate Brewing!*

SECOND PRIZE: A Circle City Zymurgy swag bag and a growler of the winning beer.

THIRD PRIZE: A growler of the winning beer.





IMPORTANT DATES:

July 22: Last day to register for the competition

July 24, 7 PM: Club meeting at Deviate Brewing. We will roll for ingredients at this meeting. If you are unable to attend, and want someone to roll in your absence, please email circlecityzymurgy@gmail.com.

October 22: Entries are due. Drop off location is Deviate Brewing.

October 30: Judging of entries. Winners will be announced at the Mash of Wonder after part at Deviate Brewing at 7:00 PM





Thank you for your interest, Let's make this the biggest, most exciting, most nerdy homebrew competition posssible! If you have any questions, please email circlecityzymurgy@gmail.com. Cheers, and we hope to see you on the battlefield!





*It will be the responsibility of the winner to coordinate a day to brew with Deviate Brewing. Deviate Brewing reserves the right to adjust your recipe and/or brewing processes to accommodate their needs. If the winning brewer is unable to brew their recipe at Deviate, an alternate grand prize will be determined by the competition organizers.