Return-Path: owner-judge at synchro.com Received: from srvr20.engin.umich.edu (root at srvr20.engin.umich.edu [141.212.2.26]) by srvr5.engin.umich.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA07934 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 11:46:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from redheat.rs.itd.umich.edu (0 at redheat.rs.itd.umich.edu [141.211.83.36]) by srvr20.engin.umich.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA03018 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 11:46:10 -0500 (EST) Received: by redheat.rs.itd.umich.edu (8.7.5/2.2) with X.500 id LAA17113; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 11:46:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from relay2.smtp.psi.net by redheat.rs.itd.umich.edu (8.7.5/2.2) with ESMTP id LAA17105; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 11:46:07 -0500 (EST) Received: from uu6.psi.com by relay2.smtp.psi.net (8.8.3/SMI-5.4-PSI) id LAA08817; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 11:45:39 -0500 (EST) Received: by uu6.psi.com (5.65b/4.0.071791-PSI/PSINet) via UUCP; id AA23921 for twaldon at fcc.gov; Wed, 12 Mar 97 11:45:34 -0500 Received: (from majordom at localhost) by synchro.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA02894 for judge-digest-outgoing; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 11:17:31 -0500 Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 11:17:31 -0500 Message-Id: <199703121617.LAA02894 at synchro.com> From: owner-judge-digest at synchro.com To: judge-digest at synchro.com Subject: judge-digest V1 #1404 Reply-To: judge at synchro.com Errors-To: owner-judge-digest at synchro.com Precedence: bulk judge-digest Wednesday, 12 March 1997 Volume 01 : Number 1404 ============================================================================ J u d g e N e t - t h e b e e r j u d g e d i g e s t ============================================================================ Moderator: Chuck Cox Archivist: Spencer Thomas Publisher: SynchroSystems Submissions: judge at synchro.com Subscriptions: judge-request at synchro.com Archive: http://realbeer.com/spencer/judge BJCP info: geninfo at bjcp.synchro.com ============================================================================ contents: Style guidelines Competition registration software BJCP exam schedule Steam Beer and trademarks contest anouncement ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: wotring at nrc.uab.edu (Virginia E. Wotring) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 09:58:40 -0600 Subject: Style guidelines Could some one explain the difference between Saison and Biere de Garde? On the new BJCP style guidelines, they are listed separately. I had always thought of them as pretty much the same. Please add to my education, if this is needed. Ginger - ---- Ginger Wotring, Ph.D. Neurobiology Research, UAB wotring at nrc.uab.edu ------------------------------ From: Ted_Manahan Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 07:55:36 -0800 Subject: Competition registration software I know this has been covered before, but it's been a while... What's the collective wisdom regarding registration software? Are there shareware packages available that some other intrepid judges have created? The Oregon Homebrew Festival is coming up, and I have been asked to find out what's available. In the past we've used a spreadsheet with some custom macros. It worked, but I think we can do better. Direct e-mail is fine. If you have something of general interest you might want to share it with the whole digest. Thanks, Ted Manahan tedm at cv.hp.com 541/715-2856 ------------------------------ From: Scott Bickham Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 14:05:43 -0500 (EST) Subject: BJCP exam schedule Hopefully I can slip this in between some of the very interesting discussions. I would have been right in the middle of them, though I think spending the last week in Italy and Belgium are a good excuse! Note that the schedule is booked through May, but there are many openings in summer and Fall (with the exception of October). I also must thank Caroline Duncker and Nancy Johnson at the AHA for being so helpful in scheduling BJCP exams at the National Homebrew Conference in Cleveland and the GABF in the Fall. Scott Bickham, BJCP Exam Director bickham at dave.nrl.navy.mil Date Location Contact Person Phone Number - ----------------------------------------------------------------- 3/15 Sacramento, CA Martin Lodahl (916) 823-0202 3/22 Irving, TX cancelled 4/5 Boise, ID Loren Carter (208) 385-3473 4/6 Baytown, TX Andy Thomas (713) 493-3356 4/27 Halifax, NS Jeff Pinhey (902) 425-5218 5/3 Orlando, FL Mac Monroe (407) 253-2534 5/4 Denver, CO Mark Groshek (303) 757-8394 5/10 Birmingham, AL Ginger Wotring (205) 320-2887 5/10 Naperville, IL Tom Fitzpatrick (630) 896-6255 6/21 Malvern, PA Chuck Hanning (610)-889-0396 7/17 NHC-Cleveland Scott Bickham (410) 290-7721 10/97 Bellevue, WA Mark Henry (206) 882-9929 10/97 GABF-Denver Scott Bickham (410) 290-7721 10/11 Brighton, MI Bill Pfeiffer (810) 229-0727 postponed - ----------------------------------------------------------------- Omaha, NE Frank Sobetski (402) 593-9171 Erie, PA Ralph Colaizzi (412) 931-9099 date/location to be determined - contact me if interested - ------------------------------------------------------------------- 4/97 Rochester, NY Todd Colin 4/97 Boston, MA Dan Hall (603) 778-1231 5/97 Regina, Sask. Bev Robertson (306) 359-7276 New Albany, IN Dibbs Harting 6/97 Minneapolis Jim Ellingson 6/97 Phoenix, AZ Rick Drake 6/7 Fresno, CA Jim Lopes (209) 227-7994 10/3 Morristown, NJ Julianne Targen Oct. Syracuse, NY Peter Garofalo (315) 428-0952 TBD New Albany, IN Dibbs Harting ------------------------------ From: STROUDS at cliffy.polaroid.com Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 09:08:08 -0500 (EST) Subject: Steam Beer and trademarks Back in JN#1393 (Feb. 27th), Jim Busch said: "Steam beer, as exempified by Anchor, is merely what we can easily find and try. Why? Because one brewer holds a trademark on the label and therefore the style and actively prevents others from coming close to claiming they brew a "Steam style beer". Now I had always thought this too and it does seem to be repeated ad infinitum in any article written on Steam Beer. M. Lodahl's recent Steam beer article for BYO said essentially the same. I was surprised to read the following letter, which was printed in the Feb. 1997 newsletter of the Washington Zephyr Zymurgists (don't know if it ever showed up in Zymurgy). Can anyone confirm the point of the letter, which is that the term "Steam Beer" is in fact _not_ trademarked and that Anchor has no claim on it? Thanks, Steve ********** work: strouds at polaroid.com home: stivnpam at worldnet.att.net ********** *********** STEAM BEER, NOT CALIFORNIA COMMON The following is an excerpt of a letter Tabernash Brewing Co. of Denver, Colorado sent to the AHA last April in response to erroneous information provided in the Zymurgy "Dear Professor" column of the Summer 1996 issue. A reader had written requesting an explanation of "steam" beer. The "Professor's" reply stated that "when a beer is referred to as 'Steam Beer' you would be referring specifically to a brand produced by Anchor Brewing Co., San Francisco, CA." Further, he stated that the brewery "has produced this beer for several years and trademarked their name so that it cannot be used by any other brewery." While the first statement is misleading, this last statement is erroneous. On June 6, 1988, Anchor Brewing co. attempted to register with the US Patent and Trademark Office the mark "STEAM BEER" in Serial No. 73/732916. The Examiner assigned to the particular aplication refused registration and Anchor abandoned the application as of May 25, 1990. Anchor does hold US Trademark Registration No. 1,206,783, "STEAM BEER and Design" for beer, granted on August 31, 1982. This mark protects Anchor's use of the words "STEAM BEER" in the stylized typeface in which it appears in Anchor's packaging. however, the rights associated with a mark in special form, i.e. stylized, do not reside in the working alone, but instead reside in a particular display of the wording. The craft brewing community is acutely aware of Anchor's diligence in policing the mark "STEAM BEER" (Ed.: i.e. competition clasifications are called "California Common"). I suspect, however, that the community is unaware that Anchor has been policing a trademark that it does not hold. In his response to the reader's inquiry, "The Professor" supports Anchor's proprietary claim to the style upon the assumption that "back in the California pioneer days...there were all manners and varieties of steam beer...[and] the varieties were so divers from one...to another that one could never hafve really defined a style as such." Diversity, as "The Professor" doubtless appreciates, was no less a feature of 19th century brewing than it is of our modern industry. Interpretation of beer styles is as varied as the personalities of the brewers who create them. Just as Sierra Nevada's pale Ale may be considered the paradigm of what has become the American Pale Ale style, or Widmer's Hefe-Weizen the model of the American-style weizen beer, Anchor's Steam is likewise the archetype of the modern steam style. However, that dignified status should in no way preclude other brewers from working in a style so steeped in American brewing history, a style whose production technique is so well understood. Tabernash Brewing Co., among others, produces a steam-style beer brewed in the class tradition, fermented in open, shallow fermenters with lager yeast, but at the warmer temperatures associated with ale fermentation. It is crafted with no less care, respect for tradition, or personal pride than is Anchor's excellent example of this style. Our industry is certainly indebted to Fritz Maytag and Anchor Brewing Co. for preserving the steam style in commercial form, just as a debt of gratitude is owed Pierre Celis for preserving the Belgian witbier style. However, we in the brewing industry have a resonsibility to educate consumers about our products in the most accurate and meaningful terms available, a responsibility which Anchor's assumption of the steam style has prevented numerous craft brewers around the country from upholding. It is time for the brewing community to recognize steam beer as a style, not a brand. Sincerely, Doug Render Tabernash Brewing Co. ------------------------------ From: Btalk at aol.com Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 09:40:38 -0500 (EST) Subject: contest anouncement Contest announcement and call/beg for judges. The third annual Parlor City Brew Off, a BJCP sanctioned homebrew contest, is scheduled for April 19 at the A.O.H Hall in Binghamton, NY. All recognized styles of beer, cider and mead will be accepted. Any type bottles accepted, carbonaters accepted and returned. Refer to entry packets for details. Best of Show for beer wins a $100.00 gift certificate from West Creek HOmebrew of Endicott NY. Best Of Show for Meads and Ciders wins a gallon (12 lb) of honey. Cool plaques will also be given for each BOS first place. Ribbons will be awarded for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in each category. Entry packets will be available around March 22 at the following dropoff points: DOc's, Binghamton, NY; E.J. Wren, Liverpool, NY; Heller's HOmebrew, Syracuse, NY; Eddy's Beverage/ The Hoppy Troll, Saratoga Springs, NY; Hudson River Brew Supply, Troy, NY; The Brewery Shop (FX Matt Brewery) Utica, NY. Entries may be dropped off or shipped to West Creek Brewing Supply, Endicott, NY. Entry deadline is Friday, April 11. Kurt Nelson, organizer Judges and stewards - we need your help - please contact Bob Talkiewicz Breakfast stuff and Lunch provided:) For entry packets or miscellaneous info, contact assistant organizer Roger Haggett This is the final event in the NY Homebrewer of the Year circuit. Later, Bob Talkiewicz, Binghamton, NY ------------------------------ End of judge-digest V1 #1404 **************************** Send subscription cancellations & changes to judge-request at synchro.com. Messages sent to the wrong address will be ignored.