From synchro!judge-request at uu6.psi.com Fri Apr 22 06:06:37 1994 Received: from uu6.psi.com by goodman.itn.med.umich.edu with SMTP id AA29881 (5.65b/IDA-1.4.3 for spencer at hendrix.itn.med.umich.edu); Fri, 22 Apr 94 06:06:25 -0400 Received: from synchro.UUCP by uu6.psi.com (5.65b/4.0.071791-PSI/PSINet) via UUCP; id AA00776 for ; Fri, 22 Apr 94 06:01:00 -0400 Received: by synchro.com (smail2.5) id AA14370; 22 Apr 94 05:15:36 EST (Fri) Reply-To: judge at synchro.com (JudgeNet) Errors-To: judge-error at synchro.com Precedence: bulk Message-Id: <9404220515.AA14370 at synchro.com> From: judge-request at synchro.com (JudgeNet Administrator) To: judge-recipients at synchro.com (JudgeNet Recipients) Subject: JudgeNet Digest #744 (Apr 22, 1994) Date: 22 Apr 94 05:15:36 EST (Fri) JudgeNet Digest #744 Fri 22 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: Re: Medium to high bitterness (Jim Busch) AHA 2nd Round Judge Panels ("Norman Dickenson") Re: Limiting the # of judges per table, AHA Nationals - 2nd Round (STROUD) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1994 14:38:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Busch Subject: Re: Medium to high bitterness Al writes: > Original Porter (Entire) > > Ruby-red to dark brown. Translucent. Low carbonation. Medium to high > hop bitterness. > Style Original Gravity (Plato) Alc/vol IBU SRM > c) Original Porter (Entire) 1.050 - 1.090 (12.5-22.5) 5-7 50-150 35-70 Al, I think we are going to have to label you as a certified hophead! 50-150 IBUS is medium bitterness?!! Maybe this should be HBU? hoppily, Jim Busch ------------------------------ Date: 21 Apr 1994 13:16:41 U From: "Norman Dickenson" Subject: AHA 2nd Round Judge Panels REGARDING AHA 2nd Round Judge Panels I personally think that the panel size should be limited. The selection criteria can be based on date and time of receipt written request to be a judge (e.g. first-come-first-served). I'm sure the AHA staffers will be much better prepared this year to develop an accurate judges list, including budgeting for anticipated "no-shows". Five is a good limit to panel size. We all know at least one judge who can be opinionated and overly forceful, attempting to coerce fellow judges to accept his/her pronouncement. I know of several otherwise very competent judges who are seemingly incapable of compromise and achieving group consensus when the situation calls for it. There's safety in numbers, but too many is chaos. With up to 15 brews in a second round flight (phew!), it promises to be a brutally long session. I'm glad I have entries in most of the "big beverage" categories. -norman- norman.dickenson at sonoma.edu . ------------------------------ Date: 21 Apr 1994 11:16:07 -0500 (EST) From: STROUD%GAIA at leia.polaroid.com Subject: Re: Limiting the # of judges per table, AHA Nationals - 2nd Round Mea culpa. Spencer Thomas sent me private email and noted that he had been told that this year the AHA is requesting *three* bottles of beer for the second round of the Nationals. Yep, I went and looked at the rules in the Winter 1993 Zymurgy and there it is, in little itty bitty print on page 5 of the rules - three bottles requested for second round. So that takes care of my main objection to the 'six-judge' problem, which was there would not be enough beer to do a third round to decide the winners in each category. Sorry if I got anybody frothed up over this..... That'll teach me to type before reading - one good way to end up with one's foot in one mouth. Steve Stroud ------------------------------ End of JudgeNet Digest ************************