From synchro!judge-request at uu6.psi.com Wed Apr 27 07:05:04 1994 Received: from uu6.psi.com by goodman.itn.med.umich.edu with SMTP id AA17207 (5.65b/IDA-1.4.3 for spencer at hendrix.itn.med.umich.edu); Wed, 27 Apr 94 07:04:59 -0400 Received: from synchro.UUCP by uu6.psi.com (5.65b/4.0.071791-PSI/PSINet) via UUCP; id AA29975 for ; Wed, 27 Apr 94 06:39:09 -0400 Received: by synchro.com (smail2.5) id AA06792; 27 Apr 94 05:17:29 EDT (Wed) Reply-To: judge at synchro.com (JudgeNet) Errors-To: judge-error at synchro.com Precedence: bulk Message-Id: <9404270517.AA06792 at synchro.com> From: judge-request at synchro.com (JudgeNet Administrator) To: judge-recipients at synchro.com (JudgeNet Recipients) Subject: JudgeNet Digest #745 (Apr 27, 1994) Date: 27 Apr 94 05:17:29 EDT (Wed) JudgeNet Digest #745 Wed 27 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: Exam Questions (Frank J Dobner +1 708 979 5124) My style suggestions (bickham) Brett in Original Porter (Algis R Korzonas +1 708 979 8583) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 26 Apr 94 14:43:00 GMT From: fjdobner at ihlpa.att.com (Frank J Dobner +1 708 979 5124) Subject: Exam Questions I recently took the BJCP exam and I have a pretty good memory for the questions asked. My question is: is it ethical to post these questions to others on this or any other digests for the benefit of their study? Or is taboo to divulge questions that may be recycled for future exams. Perhaps this has been discussed before. Frank Dobner ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 11:10:08 -0400 (EDT) From: bickham at msc.cornell.edu Subject: My style suggestions As usual, I'm late with a follow-up to the relevant posts, but none of the suggestions so far seem unrealistic. There seems to be a problem with what to do with the German-style ales, but the following seems logical to me: 18. Copper Lager-Ales: a) Duesseldorf-style altbier: same style definition, with the bitterness changed to 30 to 50 IBUs. b) California Common Beer 23. Pale Lager-Ales: a) Cream Ale b) American Wheat c) Koelsch This would keep the number of categories the same, but beers would be grouped together by taste instead of place of origin. The American wheat will be removed from the American Pale Ale category, which should be changed to: 6. American-style ale a) Classic pale ale a) India pale ale (such as Anchor Liberty, SN Celebration Ale) My last suggestions will be more controversial. You might have noticed that the Belgian ale category includes a wide range of gravities, which isn't really appropriate since Old Ales and Pale Ales aren't judged together. I propose the following Belgian-style categories: 2. Belgian-style Pale Ales a. Flanders Brown b. Belgian Pale Ale c. White 3. Belgian-style Strong Ales a. Dubbel b. Trippel c. Belgian strong (which may include spices) d. Biere de Garde 3'. Belgian-style Lambic This adds another category, but considering the diversity of beer in Belgium and the increasing number of Belgian-style homebrewers in North America, it's pretty fair. Scott P.S. I have a few bottles of Gaffel Koelsch, purchased from Vintages in Ottawa, so if you find that you're judging German-style ales at Kingston this weekend and want a calibration beer, look me up - I'll gladly donate a bottle for the sake of better judging. - -- ======================================================================== Scott Bickham bickham at msc.cornell.edu ========================================================================= ------------------------------ Date: 25 Apr 94 14:52:00 GMT From: korz at iepubj.att.com (Algis R Korzonas +1 708 979 8583) Subject: Brett in Original Porter Spencer writes me privately: >Do you believe that it would have ALWAYS had Brett character? Should >that instead be "none to medium"? I believe it was quite common. It appears that Brett lives in the wood of an aging barrel or tun. What I've heard very recently is that Belgian researchers believe that most of the microbiota in Lambieks now comes from the wood and not from the air. The orchards that used to be all over the Zenne valley are basically gone and that only the barrels and buildings hold the bacteria and yeasts that make Lambiek. Similarly, Foster believes that Brett was common among those old 1820's Porters given their long maturation in large wooden tuns. Perhaps, as you say, "none to medium" *is* more correct. What does the Judgenet think about this? Al. ------------------------------ End of JudgeNet Digest ************************