Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 16:35:38 -0500
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judge-digest               Friday, 9 January 1998       Volume 01 : Number 1523

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 World Cup of Beer, 1998!
 AHA club-only competitions

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From: David Klein <dklein at wenet.net>
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 1998 14:53:48 -0800
Subject: World Cup of Beer, 1998!

FOURTH ANNUAL WORLD CUP OF BEER HOMEBREW COMPETITION

 
Homebrew Judges,

In the spirit of recognizing the development of endemic styles 
of beer, the Bay Area Mashers are proud to present the 4nd annual
World Cup of Beer Homebrew Competition. We invite you to enter and
judge this event.
 
The competition is sanctioned by the BJCP and is a qualifying event for
the MCAB national competition. 

The deadline for receiving entries is March 14, 1998; The judge
registration deadline is also March 14, 1998. Final judging will
be conducted on March 28, in Berkeley. Like last year, we'll work to
ensure a nice resturant environment, with proper beer serving
temperatures, and clean glassware to ease your job. Ribbons and prizes
will be awarded to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place finishers in each category,
and to Best of Show. Winners in MCAB related categories will become
eligable for entry to the national competition.

After judging, we invite you to a party at Golden Pacific Brewing to
relax, interact with the professional and amateur brewers who are
reviving quality brewing in the Bay Area. The afternoon will then
culimate with an awards ceremony.
 
For more information please check out out Web page at:

http://www.slip.net/~tcedit/worldcup.htm
 
For more judging information please mail me at

klein at wenet.net

and let me know if you'ld like me to send you a judge registration
packet in the US mail, or if you would like to be registered by email.


Sincerely,

David Klein
Judge Coordinator


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From: Stiv Stroud <stivnpam at worldnet.att.net>
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 1998 22:27:25 +0000
Subject: AHA club-only competitions

>Leo Vitt <vitt at rchland.VNET.IBM.COM
>Date: Mon,  5 Jan 1998 14:42:30 -0600 (CST)
>Subject: Hail to ale
>
> I am having a problem finding the hail to ale club only comp info.
>Can someone let me know where to find this info?

Leo - this info was posted on JudgeDigest a couple of weeks ago (email  BernardCh at aol.com 
for more details).  It's a darn good thing it was posted, too, because the AHA has been 
absolutely useless when it comes to _any_ info about the club-only competitions for 1998.

If I could unload a little here:

1)  I have emailed Brian Rezac (brian at aob.org) at the AOB three times since mid-November 
requesting style-info for the 1998 comps and have not received a single reply.  Maybe I 
have his address wrong, but one of the emails was sent directly off of the AHA's web page, 
so I doubt it. 

2)  The club-only comp web page at the AHA is woefully out of date - as of last week, it 
only reflected competition info for 1997, nothing about 1998 including the Hail to the Ale 
comp - even though The Music City Brewers seem to think that they are hosting it!

3) Our club hasn't received anything in the snail mail about 1998 club-only comps.  With 
the Hail to the Ale entry deadline approaching in less than 2 weeks, where are the forms 
and details?


It looks like the AHA has dropped the Club-only competition ball.  I know that they have a 
lot on their plate and that this is not the most important thing they do, but our club has 
an internal competition based on the AHA's announced Club-only styles and it is 
aggravating to get ignored when requesting info.   Is this the newer, friendlier AHA?

Even if the AHA doesn't yet know which clubs will host the competitions it would help the 
brewers if the _styles_ are announced so that we can brew for them......especially the 
lager styles. 

Cheers,
Steve


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