Dixie Cup Awards
Individual medals will be awarded to the first, second, and third place winner of each category. The judges have sole responsibility for determining if all of the medals in a particular category should be awarded, or if there are ties for a particular medal.
First Time Entrant Award
The First Time Entrant Award is open to new entrants to the Dixie Cup. This award is offered as an encouragement to new brewers to “get their feet wet” in competition and get some quality feedback on their brewing efforts.
The BJCP category and subcategory must be designated for proper judging. Medallions will be awarded but this category does not count towards brewer or club points and does not qualify for Best-of-Show (therefore only two bottles are required).
Best of Show Awards
Best of Show for both Beer and Mead/Cider will be awarded from the judging of all of the first place winners of each category except for the Gruit Ain’t Moot, It’s Just Beer, and First-Time Entrant categories.
Mike Templeton Award
This award, presented in memory of one of the original Foam Rangers, is given to the individual brewer who accumulates the most points at the Dixie Cup, awarded as follows:
| First Place in each category | 3 points |
| Second Place in each category | 2 points |
| Third Place in each category | 1 point |
No points are awarded from the Gruit Ain’t Moot, It’s Just Beer, and First-Time Entrant categories.
The Dixie Cup Trophy
Given for the most points garnered by a club, based on the same scale as the Templeton award.
Lone Star Circuit Homebrewer of the Year
The Dixie Cup is the final contest of the Lone Star Circuit competitions where one can earn points towards becoming the Lone Star Circuit Homebrewer of the Year. Points are awarded for placing in a participating contest (3 points for first place, 2 points for second place, and 1 point for third place).
Lone Star Circuit Homebrew Team of the Year
The Dixie Cup is also the final contest of the Lone Star Circuit competitions where teams can earn points towards becoming the Lone Star Circuit Homebrew Team of the Year. Points are awarded on the same scale as for the Lone Star Circuit Homebrewer of the Year.
Lone Star Circuit Homebrew Club of the Year
The Dixie Cup is also the final contest of the Lone Star Circuit competitions where clubs can earn points towards becoming the Lone Star Circuit Homebrew Club of the Year. Points are awarded on the same scale as for the Lone Star Circuit Homebrewer of the Year.
MCAB Qualifying Styles
The Dixie Cup is a qualifying event for the Masters Championship of Amateur Brewing (MCAB). The top-ranked beer in each MCAB qualifying style (QS) will be invited to compete in the championship finals, to be held in Houston, Texas, February 8-9, 2008.
In order to maintain the Dixie Cup tradition of awarding more medals than the major BJCP categories, thus splitting some of the larger BJCP categories such as American Ale, some of the MCAB QSs are split across multiple medal categories.
In these instances, the MCAB qualifier will be the winner as chosen by the Best-of-Show panel for the corresponding grouping of first place medalists (the MCAB qualifier for the American Ale category, for example, will be determined by the BOS panel from the three BOS finalists of the American Pale Ale, American Amber Ale, and American Brown Ale).
For the BJCP categories that are not split amongst multiple Dixie Cup categories, the MCAB qualifier will be the beer that wins first place in the category.