Return-Path: owner-judge at synchro.com Received: from srvr7.engin.umich.edu (root at srvr7.engin.umich.edu [141.212.2.69]) by srvr5.engin.umich.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA09731 for ; Sat, 7 Jun 1997 22:03:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from judgmentday.rs.itd.umich.edu (0 at judgmentday.rs.itd.umich.edu [141.211.83.37]) by srvr7.engin.umich.edu (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id WAA17305 for ; Sat, 7 Jun 1997 22:03:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: by judgmentday.rs.itd.umich.edu (8.8.5/2.2) with X.500 id WAA10052; Sat, 7 Jun 1997 22:03:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from uu6.psi.com by judgmentday.rs.itd.umich.edu (8.8.5/2.2) with SMTP id WAA10047; Sat, 7 Jun 1997 22:03:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: by uu6.psi.com (5.65b/4.0.071791-PSI/PSINet) via UUCP; id AA24292 for spencer at umich.edu; Sat, 7 Jun 97 22:03:36 -0400 Received: (from majordom at localhost) by synchro.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA12852 for judge-digest-outgoing; Sat, 7 Jun 1997 21:36:01 -0400 Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 21:36:01 -0400 Message-Id: <199706080136.VAA12852 at synchro.com> From: owner-judge-digest at synchro.com To: judge-digest at synchro.com Subject: judge-digest V1 #1453 Reply-To: judge at synchro.com Errors-To: owner-judge-digest at synchro.com Precedence: bulk judge-digest Saturday, 7 June 1997 Volume 01 : Number 1453 ============================================================================ J u d g e N e t - t h e b e e r j u d g e d i g e s t ============================================================================ Moderator: Chuck Cox Archivist: Spencer Thomas Publisher: SynchroSystems Submissions: judge at synchro.com Subscriptions: judge-request at synchro.com Archive: http://realbeer.com/spencer/judge BJCP info: geninfo at bjcp.synchro.com ============================================================================ contents: BJCP PR Call for Judges - Montgomery County Fair ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Joel Plutchak" Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 08:41:05 -0500 Subject: BJCP PR On Jun 4, "Houseman, David L" sayeth: > Jay's observation about a lack of public awareness of the BJCP and the need > for PR is very much an issue if the BJCP wants to go much beyond a simple > certification capability. For example, the style committee is working on > the BJCP style guide. Unless some PR is done for the BJCP, I'd contend that > it's general usefulness in competitions is worthless because most > competitions use the AHA style guide. ... > If the BJCP wants its style guide to be recognized widely... > some action is necessary. Our local club members discussed this at length while in the preliminary planning stages for our competition this year. The general feeling seemed to be that the BJCP style guidelines were nice and that supporting the BJCP is important, but the guidelines just weren't well enough known to potential entrants-- at the time (and even now?) the only place to get the BJCP guidelines was on a web site in an obscure (sorry, Tom & Dennis ;-) format. By contrast, the AHA style guidelines are published in _Zymurgy_, which has something like 25000 member/subscribers plus newsstand sales. Our decision to once again go with the AHA guidelines came down to the bottom line-- we didn't want to have to effectively double our mailing costs by sending every potential entrant a full copy of the BJCP guidelines just to make sure they knew how their entries would be judged. (Entry fees alone don't cover the costs of running our competition and we're a small club, so we're very sensitive to any additional costs.) The solution? Maybe a good start would be to try to get the BJCP guidelines published somewhere in addition to the web site (and make the current web guidelines a little more web-friendly, i.e., available in straight HTML). Maybe _Brewing Techniques_? I'd personally like to use the BJCP guidelines-- they've got a nice organization plus a style or two that doesn't fit well into the AHA guidelines, and they don't have the AHA bias against listing the less-brewed styles ("If a category does not have at least 20 entries in 1997, it will not be included in the 1998 [National Homebrew] Competition" which I interpret as meaning that it'll be dropped from the published guidelines). Maybe next year... - -- Joel Plutchak Organizer, 3rd Annual Boneyard Brew-Off Treasurer, Boneyard Union of Zymurgical Zealots (B.U.Z.Z) Champaign-Urbana, Illinois ------------------------------ From: Steven Lichtenberg Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 10:50:47 -0400 Subject: Call for Judges - Montgomery County Fair The 2nd Annual Montgomery County (Maryland) Fair amateur homebrew competition will be held on August 16, 1997 at the Montgomery county Fairgrounds. We cordially invite you to be part of one of the largest county fairs in the country and hope that you will judge/steward. Last year, our first, we had over 200 entries. we anticipate even more this year. The competition is sanctioned by the AHA and BJCP. Interested parties can contact Steven Lichtenberg email:slichten at msninc.com or by phone at 301-990-8430. We look forward to seeing you there. **** ---- "There's always time for a Homebrew!" ---- **** O| | -------------- Steven Lichtenberg ---------------- | |O \__/ ------------ slichten at mnsinc.com ------------- \__/ ----------- Programmer at Large ------------ ---------- Lichtenberg Consulting ---------- ----------- Gaithersburg, MD ------------- --------------------------------------------- ENJOY LIFE -- THIS IS NOT A REHEARSAL ------------------------------ End of judge-digest V1 #1453 **************************** Send subscription cancellations & changes to judge-request at synchro.com. 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