Subject: Digest for the period 3/13/2007 - 3/14/2007 Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 01:00:47 -0400 Table of contents ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Call for judges: Bay Area Brew Off, California (Bryan L. Gros) 2. Call for NHC East Region Judges (william hoyt) 3. Style Heresy (Dion Hollenbeck) 4. Judges for North East Regionals -- and other competitions (David Houseman) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Bryan L. Gros Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:36:39 -0700 Subject: Call for judges: Bay Area Brew Off, California The final judging for the 20th annual Bay Area Brew Off, in association with the Alameda County Fair, will be Saturday, May 19th, at the fairgrounds in Pleasanton. We will likely have preliminary rounds of judging also in the two weeks preceding the finals Let me know if you are interested and I will let you know the details. We need judges and stewards, and we encourage apprentice judges as well. Competition web page is http://www.draughtboard.org/babo/2007Announcement.htm thank you Bryan Gros bgros`at`aggienetwork.com Oakland, CA Draught Board Homebrew Club http://www.draughtboard.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: william hoyt Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:17:33 -0400 Subject: Call for NHC East Region Judges Call for NHC east Region Judges We are looking for judges for the 1st round of the American Homebrew Association's NHC Eastern Region. Judging will be held on Friday April 20th(evening), and Saturday April 21, 2007(morning and afternoon). They will be held at J.W. Dover in Westlake, Ohio. Lunch and Dinner will be provided on Saturday for all judges. We are working on some lodging accommodations for those of you traveling from nearby states. Also, we will be throwing a usual banquet Saturday evening with a great meal and of course-- BEER. If that is not enough, there will be several flights to enjoy drinking homebrew. If you are available to judge, please contact Bill Hoyt, Judge Coordinator via email at wgh`at`uakron.edu. As always we are also looking for people to help out with food, beer, unpacking, and more beer. Hope to see you then! Cheers! Bill Hoyt NHC Eastern Region Judge Coordinator wgh`at`uakron.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Dion Hollenbeck Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:20:26 -0600 Subject: Style Heresy I am about to put out a question that may well be considered heresy, but at least, I am sure it will provoke lively discussion. B-} A couple of weeks ago, I judged Stouts at America's Finest City Homebrew Competition. We had three panels of two judges, the majority of them quite experienced. I talked with some of them after the competition, and they tended to agree with what I am about to say. The latest BJCP style guidelines are far too loosey-goosey when it comes to the Stout category. The descriptions of each sub-category are so wide ranging that almost any stout could fit in any sub-category and not do badly as long as it was not infected and was only in the ballpark of the Stout category. This made judging *extremely* hard since just about any non-infected entry could do OK in any sub-category. How can you judge which Stout is the better Stout, when the guidelines are so forgiving? Then it merely comes down to which one is more "likeable". That seems to go against all we stand for on judging by objective criteria, not personal preference. Do other judges who have recently judged stouts feel that the sub-categories should be much "tighter"? thanks, dion -- Dion Hollenbeck Email: hollen`at`woodsprite.com Home Page: http://www.woodsprite.com Brewing Page: http://hbd.org/hollen Toys: 98 4Runner, 86 4x4 PU ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: David Houseman Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:03:12 -0500 Subject: Judges for North East Regionals -- and other competitions Like all organizers I receive a list of judges in my region that I'm contacting to judge the Northeast Regionals of the AHA National Homebrew Competition to be held in Philadelphia on April 20th and 21st. But like most of the organizers I find that about 20% of the judges in the region do not have valid email addresses in the BJCP database. So while I'm in contact with most of the judges, and hope to have quite a number show up to judge, I cannot contact the rest of you. So if you are a BJCP judge, please take a few minutes to go to the BJCP web site and update your personal contact information, especially your email address. If you're in the Northeast, I want to invite you to judge in this region. But even if you are in another region, that local organizer would appreciate it if you'd update your BJCP contact information. If you have a problem with the BJCP web site contact me or your local BJCP representative. If you are traveling in or near Philadelphia on the weekend of April 20/21, and you do not live in the region, contact me if you'd like to judge this competition. David Houseman ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Important Subscriber Information ***** To post a message to JudgeNet, send it to judge`at`synchro.com. Send plain text only, no HTML, MIME, encoded text or attachments. Make sure you use a meaningful subject. Quote only as much material as is needed for context. 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