Thank you for your interest in the Wizard of SAAZ 2022 organized by Society of Akron Area Zymurgists, R. Shea Brewing - Canal Place.

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.

Judge and Steward Registration is Open

If you have not registered and are willing to be a judge or steward, please register.

If you have registered, log in and then choose Edit Account from the My Account menu indicated by the icon on the top menu.

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 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.

 

 

Competition Official

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

  • Mike Yingling — Fixer

Sponsors

Society of Akron Area Zymurgists is proud to have the following sponsors for the Wizard of SAAZ 2022.

R. Shea Brewing
540 S. Main St., Suite 214, Akron, OH 44311
R. Shea Brewing
The Grape And Granary
915 Home Ave., Akron, OH 44310
The Grape And Granary
Thirsty Dog Brewing
587 Grant St., Akron, OH 44311
Thirsty Dog Brewing
Hoppin’ Frog Brewery
1680 E. Waterloo Rd., Akron, OH 44306
Hoppin’ Frog Brewery
LD Carlson Company
463 Portage Blvd., Kent, OH 44240
LD Carlson Company
Vine N Hop
3626 Medina Rd., Medina OH 44256
Vine N Hop
Amoretti
451 Lombard St., Oxnard, CA 93030
Amoretti
JaDed Brewing
Lake Zurich, IL
JaDed Brewing
Muskellunge Brewing Company
425 5th St. NW, Canton, OH 44702
Muskellunge Brewing Company
Anvil Brewing
1600 Canal Rd., Lafayette, IN 47904
Anvil Brewing
Brewers Friend
San Marcos, TX
Brewers Friend
Eighty-Three Brewery
1201 E. Market St., Suite 110, Akron, OH 44305
Eighty-Three Brewery
Fermentis
7475 West Main St., Milwaukee, WI 53214
Fermentis
Imperial Yeast
2275 Bridge St., Suite 210.1, Philadelphia, PA 19137
Imperial Yeast
5 Star Chemicals
6870 W. 52nd Ave., Suite #205, Arvada, CO 80002
5 Star Chemicals
Akronym Brewing
58 E. Market St., Akron, OH 44308
Akronym Brewing
HiHo Brewing Company
1707 Front St., Cuyahoga Falls, OH 44221
HiHo Brewing Company