[MKOB] Meeting-Belgian Competition?

[Willis Brewer]

Since you are a judge, if you are at the meeting, maybe you could give a
short interpretation of what to look for in the beer being judged.

 

I have a feeling Belgians could be a bitch to judge (not my cup of coffee at
all either).

 

When you started out, you knew zero, and now you are a judge.  Maybe some
education would be beneficial.

 

Just a thought.

 

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Sent: 11/14/2007 6:45 AM
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Subject: Re: [MKOB] Meeting-Belgian Competition?

 

I think the whole judging of beers in this club is discouraging to some
brewers.  As a National Judge in the BJCP, the method that you guys use to
judge beers is a joke.  Some of the people at the meetings have no idea what
beer should taste like and to score some one beer a 50 out of 50 means its
the best beer, even better than the benchmark. The last meeting and judging
where I had two beers entered, which if just drank by you guys without
judging you'd think its gods water.  Some of the beers at my table which I
tasted were okay and I did my best educated experince effort to judge the
beers correctly and while tallying up the score 3 people on our tabel scored
beers which I scored in the 20s which is a good beer, they scored 50 points
which is outstanding beers.  Bullshit.  

We should go with the scale that Pat Baker used to do at his homebrew
meeting is the Best Out of 10.  1 - 10   1 is garbage and 10 is outstanding.


Until this club goeswith this scale I'll never bring beer to a meeting again
or even participate.  Its not fair to the judges or the brewers.

Oh belgian beers are sour anyway, so I'll just bottle up some White Balsa
mic Vinegar in a longneck.

Peter(the guy with beer on the southshore)

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