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JudgeNet Digest #1193				   Tue 09 Jan 1996


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  BJCP bash'ola                            (John Isenhour)

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Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 09:52:39 -0600 (CST)
From: isenhour at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (John Isenhour)
Subject: BJCP bash'ola

Top of the morning to ye all, Writes:

> It has been all most a year ... we still have no direction ... 
no corporation ... no bank account.

I think there has been a lot accomplished.  Just trying to *figure out*
how to organize a distributed organization in a democratic mannor, getting
the election done, setting up regional databases, trying to coordinate
stuff with AHA while still maintaining all the exam program and point
distributions for competitions, and making progress on revamping the
program isnt too shoddy for people who are doing all this on a volenteer 
basis.  I'm sure they all have other lives that are crimped.  

I'm not saying there isnt a lot of work to be done, but whenever I've 
worked on building organizations it always takes seems to take a long 
time, a lot of gestation and thinking is required and it sometimes looks 
like nothing is happening.  Do something to help when you can - I do.


> we have more administrators and board members 
> then it takes to run a fairly large town maybe even a small city, 

When switching from a monarchy to a democracy its a little more complex 
than when the system is pretty much fully functional.  What kind of 
resources does it take to *start* a large town running??  

> yet nothing truly has been accomplished, at least nothing that we can 
> reach  out and touch.

Dennis, would you be willing to go on tour?? ;)


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Jim asks about judge heads:) 

> 	It seems really hard to get a good look at head and head 
> retention with the tiny pours and the lag times between pour and judging 
> sometimes.  

It really depends on the beer, its not uncommon for Brussels lace to be
quite thick on the sides of the judging cup, and for the head to sit there
in a pretty much empty cup for quite a while if the beer has sufficent
protein.  It can get like foam concrete if it sits long enough.  

I recently made a beer with a 1.037 OG and it has a big thick head that 
wont quit - blame it on the crystal malts (which can be pretty light 
nowadays), even when poured into small glasses.  By tiny I hope you mean 
around 2 oz.

good luck,
 -john

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John Isenhour                                 "unix is not your mother"
Brewmaster/National Judge
Information/Library Science                    isenhour at uiuc.edu


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