From synchro!judge-request at uu6.psi.com Wed Apr 20 06:23:21 1994 X-VM-Attributes: [nil nil nil nil nil] Status: RO Received: from uu6.psi.com by goodman.itn.med.umich.edu with SMTP id AA12641 (5.65b/IDA-1.4.3 for spencer at hendrix.itn.med.umich.edu); Wed, 20 Apr 94 06:23:14 -0400 Received: from synchro.UUCP by uu6.psi.com (5.65b/4.0.071791-PSI/PSINet) via UUCP; id AA22510 for ; Wed, 20 Apr 94 05:56:41 -0400 Received: by synchro.com (smail2.5) id AA05279; 20 Apr 94 05:15:35 EST (Wed) Reply-To: judge at synchro.com (JudgeNet) Errors-To: judge-error at synchro.com Precedence: bulk Message-Id: <9404200515.AA05279 at synchro.com> From: judge-request at synchro.com (JudgeNet Administrator) To: judge-recipients at synchro.com (JudgeNet Recipients) Subject: JudgeNet Digest #742 (Apr 20, 1994) Date: 20 Apr 94 05:15:35 EST (Wed) JudgeNet Digest #742 Wed 20 Apr 1994 THE BEER JUDGE DIGEST Chuck Cox , publisher Michael Hall , archive administrator digest submissions to judge at synchro.com administrative requests to judge-request at synchro.com send rank updates to the administrative address messages sent to the wrong address will be ignored FTP archive information in /pub/judge/README on cygnus.ta52.lanl.gov Published by SynchroSystems and the Riverside Garage & Brewery Contents: Limiting the # of judges per table, AHA Nationals - 2nd Round (STROUD) Cincinnati first round (WESTEMEIER) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 19 Apr 1994 17:29:35 -0500 (EST) From: STROUD%GAIA at leia.polaroid.com Subject: Limiting the # of judges per table, AHA Nationals - 2nd Round The First Round of the AHA National Homebrew Competition is just around the corner, which reminds me of an item that the AHA needs to address if they truly want to have the best judging possible in their competition. I was at last year's Second Round in Portland, and I was appalled at the number of judges that were allowed to sit at each table. We had six people judging Belgian Ales! This appeared to be the norm for most of the categories. The problem that arises from this large number of judges is that there is only one bottle of each beer available and each entry is fully consumed is one pass. There is no chance to go back and retaste a beer if the judges cannot immediately come to a 1-2-3 ranking. With 5 First Round sites and 15+ entries in each category in the Second Round, it will become even harder this year. I wonder if the AHA has decided to limit the number of judges sitting at each table this year. It seems to me that it is much more important to insure that the beers are properly and fairly judged than to please everybody at the conference who feels like judging. Surely the number of judges at each table could be limited to three! James, has the issue been discussed by the AHA? Is Thom Thomlinson the Judge Organizer again this year?? - --Steve Stroud ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 19:04:30 -0400 (EDT) From: WESTEMEIER at delphi.com Subject: Cincinnati first round For those who keep track of such things, the Cincinnati unpacking crew received the following entries from all over the southern part of the United States: Cat# Cat Description Count 1 Barley Wine 18 2 Belgian/French Ale 33 3 Belgian Lambic 6 4 Brown Ale 21 5 English Pale Ale 30 6 American Ale 24 7 English Bitter 25 8 Scottish Ale 13 9 Porter 28 10 Strong Ale 12 11 Stout 29 12 Bock 22 13 Bavarian Dark 7 14 German Light Lager 8 15 Classic Pilsner 19 16 American Lager 10 17 Vienna/Fest/Marzen 9 18 Alt/Kolsch 21 19 Fruit 13 20 Herb 15 21 Specialty 18 22 Smoked 10 23 California Common 8 24 Wheat 21 25 Traditional Mead 11 26 Melomel/Cyser/Pyment/Braggot 18 27 Metheglin/Hippocras 5 === Total 454 We can use all the judges we can get, so if you're free the weekend of April 29/30, by all means let us know you're coming. If you didn't get something in the mail from us: We have a special dinner planned for Saturday evening after the judging ($25 per person) and reservations MUST be in hand by this Friday (4/22). Reply to me at: westemeier at delphi.com or call me 513-576-2872 days 513-321-2023 evenings Ed Westemeier Judge Coordinator Bloatarian Brewing League ------------------------------ End of JudgeNet Digest ************************