Hops, barley and grain. The California State Fair is looking for home beer brewers who have all of the ingredients it takes to make your homebrew number one at the California State Fair.

Whether it’s the strong bitter profile of an IPA or malty overtones of a brown ale, anyone over the age of 21 can now enter their beverage into the Homebrew Competition for the 2018 California State Fair.

The Homebrew Competition offers you the opportunity to compete with other home brewermasters from across the state and to receive valuable feedback from industry experts.

There is no procrastinating. Everyone is invited to get to hoppin and enter their tasty brew into the competition and fight for the 2018 California State Fair Blue Ribbon for Best Homebrew.

The deadline for entering is Feb. 6.

For more information, visit http://www.castatefair.org/homebrew/.