Thank you for your interest in the NHC Ireland National Homebrew Competition 2025 organized by NHC Ireland, and hosted at Rascals Brewing Company.

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.

Entry Registration is Open

35 entries have been added to the system as of 04:10, GMT, Wednesday 22 January, 2025.

3 paid entries are in the system as of 04:10, GMT, Wednesday 22 January, 2025.

To add your entries into the system, please proceed through the registration process or log in if you already have an account.

Judge and Steward Registration is Open

If you have not registered and are willing to be a volunteer, 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

Welcome back to the NHC Ireland National Homebrew Competition!

After a successful 2024 Championship, this year we are bringing it back to Dublin! The National Homebrew Competition of Ireland will be held at Rascals Brewing Company, Dublin. 

We welcome all styles to the competition, they will be judged in accordance with BJCP competition rules.

• Non-member entry price: €12.50
• Member entry price: €10.00
  • Members can access the password for the discount on the NHC forum.

Please note that Paypal takes a small fee with the payment.

The deadlines are as follows:

• Entry Deadline: 16 March 2025
• Drop off/shipping deadline: 20 March 2025

Entry Acceptance Rules

Number of Bottles Required Per Entry: 2

This year we will be accepting cans, however, entries must adhere to the following guidelines

• Bottles (brown or green. No clear glass or plastic bottles accepted)
  • 500ml, 375ml & 330ml - please provide 2 x bottles
• Cans:
  • 330ml & 440ml - please provide 2 x cans
• Pint bottles will not be accepted
• No distinguishing markings on bottles or caps (incl. embossing, labels, or decorative caps)
• Clean and free of labels or residue
• Entry labels affixed by rubber band - to each bottle

Please do not glue or tape the labels onto your bottles - we will disqualify them.

We will also disqualify any entries that do not stick to the rules. This is for the sake of anonymity as well as bottle sorting volunteers time and effort. 

Competition Officials

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

• Ross Chisholm — NHC President & Competition Coordinator
• Rich Lubell — Head Judge
• Tara Pollard — Head Steward

Sponsors

NHC Ireland is proud to have the following sponsors for the NHC Ireland National Homebrew Competition 2025.

Rascals Brewing Company

Inchicore, Dublin

Premier International Beers

Clonard

Use of their warehouse for bottle sorting, delivery of beers onsite.

TheCru.Ie

Dublin