RESCUEDohio Beer Label Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

What is the RESCUEDohio Beer Label Contest and who runs it?

The RESCUEDohio Beer Label Contest is a charity photo vote built on the pitch printed at the top of its ballot: there are two things Ohioans love, dogs and craft beer. RESCUEDohio, a dog rescue and adoption group serving Central Ohio, and the brewery Seventh Son Brewing "have joined forces to celebrate pets and the people who love them," and the contest is what that partnership produced. Its stated search is for "the coolest dog in the Cap City to be the face of a new beer."

The organization behind the ballot

RESCUEDohio labels the page outright a "Fundraiser for RESCUEDohio," tying every cycle to the group's rescue and adoption work, and its mail goes to PO Box 382, New Albany, OH 43054. The working ballot for the current cycle sits at www.gogophotocontest.com/rescuedohiobeercontest2026. The prize is unlike anything else on Ohio's public ballots: the three winning pets are featured on an actual beer, not handed a certificate or a listing.

When does the RESCUEDohio beer label vote happen?

Confirmed editions of the contest ran in 2024, came back in 2025 and returned once more in 2026, three straight cycles that establish it as a settled annual fixture rather than a one-off promotion. Each cycle follows the shape printed on the ballot: owners submit their pet's picture between December 7 and January 6, and the public vote takes over from there.

The 2026 ballot currently carries a "Contest has ended" notice, and its countdown ran on Eastern Time. What the page never shows is the vote's own closing day; the entry stretch is dated, the finish is not. Bridging one year's vote to the next year's beer, a release party at Seventh Son Brewing for the newest label was set to be announced in early 2026.

Other basics stay off the page as well. Across its ballots so far RESCUEDohio has printed neither the vote-cap rule nor the category layout for the running, so confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

How does a supporter vote in the RESCUEDohio contest today?

A supporter's path is deliberately short. The ballot page carries tabs for Participate, View Entries, Rules and About Us, plus a Sign In link, and the vote happens against the entry grid: find the dog whose face belongs on the Seventh Son beer, select it, and log the choice. Owners who want their own pet in the running use the Participate side during the December-to-January submission stretch instead.

Voting while the round is closed

Right now the 2026 page sits in its closed state, so a visitor sees the final standings rather than an active vote control. On the yearly rhythm the contest has kept, the following round would be expected in 2027, with fresh entries opening that winter. Whether a guest may back a dog without creating a sign-in goes unaddressed on the ballot itself; the Rules tab is where such a condition would surface in any year RESCUEDohio chooses to impose one.

Where this ballot sits among Ohio's public votes

Ohio's public-vote scene is crowded, and nearly all of it looks nothing like this ballot. The statewide Best of Ohio ranking and the Akron Community's Choice Awards hand out titles to local businesses, while the Best in Ohio Business Awards, CBUS Top Picks Community Choice Awards, Best of Cincinnati and the Pizza Madness bracket that 97.1 The Fan stages for Columbus pizza lovers all follow the same broad template of wide category slates and bragging rights. The RESCUEDohio Beer Label Contest narrows everything to a single subject, a dog, and a single prize, a face on a new craft beer.

It is also the rare ballot where the cause, not commerce, drives the vote: entries lift the rescue's profile while a brewery gains a label its regulars helped choose. For anyone deciding where to spend effort, that difference matters; a pizza poll or a business award rewards breadth across many slots, whereas this contest rewards depth of support behind one photogenic dog.

Helping a dog collect more votes in this contest

RESCUEDohio tells entrants exactly what winning takes: "get everyone you can think of to vote." That line is the whole playbook for this ballot. Because the subject is a single dog with a single photo, support spreads through personal channels: the owner's own circles, dog-park and adoption groups, and followers of Seventh Son Brewing who already track the taproom's releases. Early momentum matters here, since a dog entered at the start of the December window has far longer to accumulate votes than one added in January.

The organizer posts no policy beside the ballot about outside help or voting tools, so whatever the Rules tab states in a given year is the standard to meet. Broader methods for widening reach on a public vote, from shareable links to reminder timing, are gathered in an overview of getting more votes online.