Thank you for your interest in the Bright Side of Summer 2026 organized by SoCal Cerveceros, Los Angeles, California.

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 Bright Side of Summer 2026!

There are 86 registered entries and 48 registered participants, judges, and stewards.

As of 8:51 AM, PDT, there are 79 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 a BJCP-sanctioned homebrew competition open to all homebrewers. An entrant is one or more people submitting an entry. Member(s) of an entrant must have actively contributed to brewing, fermenting, and bottling the entry. Every member must be at least 21 years of age. An entrant may not be an entire brew club. Competition staff, judges, and stewards are permitted to enter. Professional brewers are permitted to enter as long as the entry was not brewed on commercial equipment.
All entries will be picked up from drop-off locations on the day of the drop-off deadline.
All entries must be handcrafted products, made with ingredients available to the general public, and produced 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 or entries that arrive damaged.
The competition organizers reserve the right to combine judging styles and restructure awards as needed, depending on 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, and the average of the scores will determine the ranking within each category. Each flight will have at least one BJCP judge.
The competition committee reserves the right to combine overall style categories based on the number of entries. Every effort will be made to combine similar styles. All entries in combined categories will be judged according to the style in which they were originally entered.
Best of Show judging will be conducted by a Best of Show panel based on a second evaluation of the top entries.
Submitted bottles/cans become the property of the competition.
The official style guidelines for this competition are the 2021 Beer Judge Certification Program guidelines.