The High Plains Brewer is an award given to an individual brewer from Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota, North Dakota or Minnesota who demonstrates outstanding and consistent brewing skills. The award recipient is chosen based on performance in several regional competitions.Qualifying events are listed below. To be eligible, a brewer must belong to a club located in one of the aforementioned states. Points will be awarded as follows: 5 for 1st, 3 for 2nd and 1 for a 3rd place finish in a qualifying competition. A brewer can only receive points for the highest scoring beer per category.

High Plains Club-of-the-Year. All clubs from the above mentioned states are eligible. Brewers points from those clubs are summed to produce the club points. Clubs whose members amass the most points as defined above will receive the Steven H. Ford traveling trophy

Qualifying Competitions Clubs hosting Qualifying events are required to notify the High Plains program administrator when and where their competition will be held, as well as the name and contact information for the competition coordinator. The competition coordinator is also responsible for insuring their club remits the $25 trophy fee to the High Plain program administrator. See Competition reporting requirements.

Questions and comments should be directed to treasurer@kcbiermeisters.org.