Received: from srvr22.engin.umich.edu (root at srvr22.engin.umich.edu [141.212.2.35]) by srvr5.engin.umich.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA06313 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 09:54:29 -0500 (EST) Received: from hubris.engin.umich.edu (root at hubris.engin.umich.edu [207.75.146.24]) by srvr22.engin.umich.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA07178 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 09:54:28 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (spencer at localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hubris.engin.umich.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA12027 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 09:54:27 -0500 (EST) Resent-Message-Id: <199901061454.JAA12027 at hubris.engin.umich.edu> Received: from srvr22.engin.umich.edu (root at srvr22.engin.umich.edu [141.212.2.35]) by srvr5.engin.umich.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA16436 for ; Fri, 1 Jan 1999 01:05:44 -0500 (EST) Received: from synchro.com (cccox.ne.mediaone.net [24.128.144.90]) by srvr22.engin.umich.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA17120 for ; Fri, 1 Jan 1999 01:05:43 -0500 (EST) From: "JudgeNet - the beer judge digest" To: "Digest Recipients" Reply-To: "JudgeNet - the beer judge digest" Subject: Digest for the period 12/31/98 - 01/01/99 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 01:03:12 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="Next_Part_SYNC786559945" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Hops: 1 Resent-To: spencer at engin.umich.edu Resent-Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 09:54:27 -0500 Resent-From: Spencer W Thomas Status: RO --Next_Part_SYNC786559945 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Table of contents ------------------------------------------------------ MCAB Update & request for comments (Louis Bonham) --Next_Part_SYNC786559945 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: Received: from postoffice.harvard.net by synchro.com with POP3 (Mailtraq/1.0.3.1018) id SYNC78395948F; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 23:04:56 -0500 >From root Wed Dec 30 23:02:08 1998 Received: (from root at localhost) by airsupply.harvard.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) id XAA23930 for postmaster at synchro.com; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 23:02:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from voyager.c-com.net (voyager.c-com.net [209.127.0.2]) by airsupply.harvard.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA23779 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 23:01:04 -0500 (EST) Received: from phoenix.net (dial16.as1.c-com.net [209.127.52.26]) by voyager.c-com.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA27190 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:01:35 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <368AF716.CD825443 at phoenix.net> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:01:26 -0600 From: Louis Bonham Errors-To: judge-owner at synchro.com Sender: judge at synchro.com Reply-To: "JudgeNet - the beer judge digest" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: JudgeNet - the beer judge digest Subject: MCAB Update & request for comments Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Apparently-To: judge at synchro.com X-Hops: 3 X-POST-MessageClass: 10; Mailing List Message Preparations for the first Masters Championship of Amateur Brewing ("MCAB"), which will be held in Houston on February 12-13, are continuing. The conference hotel is the Courtyard by Marriott (3131 West Loop South, Houston, Texas 77027, tel. 713-961-1640). We have a block of rooms available at $59/night (you must mention the MCAB when making your reservations to get this rate). We will be running the judging as follows: Qualifying Styles 1-9 will be judged Friday (February 12) evening, Qualifying Styles 10-18 will be judged Saturday midday, and Best of Show semifinals and finals will be held Saturday afternoon. At present, fourteen Master Judges from across the country have committed to attend and judge at the MCAB, and another half dozen have written to say that they may be attending but cannot yet commit. (If you are a Master Judge and wish to judge, please contact me ASAP to reserve your seats on the various panels.) At present, we are still giving BJCP Master Judges (including Honorary Master Judges) the chance to reserve a space on panels they want on a first-come, first serve basis if they will commit to attend the MCAB. In addition, if you want to judge at the MCAB and have the necessary point totals and exam score to qualify for BJCP Master status but have yet to have been formally promoted, let me know . . . we may be able to seat you as a master judge if we have enough advance warning. In addition, there will be a very small number of National Judges (George Fix, Paul Farnsworth, etc.) who are not officially listed as master judges, but whose credentials are such that no one could seriously complain if we treat them as master judges. As a result, if we run 3 judges per panel (27 judges per session), we will probably have at least 2 master judges on each panel, and some panels may well be composed of nothing but master judges. While this will probably make the MCAB one of the best-judged competitions in history, it raises a number of questions on which I'd like to poll the JudgeNet collective for their thoughts . . . . . (1) If we run 3 judges per panel, which conventional wisdom holds is the ideal panel size, we will probably need fewer that 6 National Judges per session. Obviously, we're gonna have many times this number available, including lots of folks who will be coming from across North America to attend. Any ideas on how we should choose among this pool of exceedingly well-qualified judges to fill out the panels? (2) Conventional wisdom is that 3 is the optimal panel size, both in terms of reaching decisions and having enough beer for the judges to be able to properly sample, particularly where the judges may need to sample and compare the beers a number of times. OTOH, going to 4 judges per panel would give more folks the chance to participate in the judging. OTOH, the whole point of the MCAB is to provide the highest possible quality competition, especially in terms of judging quality. Ergo, the question: 3 or 4 per panel? I encourage everyone to consider attending the MCAB. Except for nominal charges for MCAB-provided food, and transportation (and of your course your own travel, lodging, and food expenses), there will be no charge to attend. There will be technical presentations by George Fix, Paul Farnsworth, Dave Miller, Ralph Olson (Hopunion), Seth Schneider (Crosby and Baker), and a technical representative from Lallemand, as well as pub crawls and the usual fun and games you'd expect from the hosts of the Dixie Cup. Plus the chance to renew your friendships (and start new ones) with many of the best judges and amateur brewers in North America. As always, if you have any questions or comments, please write. Louis K. Bonham Organizer, Masters Championship of Amateur Brewing --Next_Part_SYNC786559945-- Received: from srvr22.engin.umich.edu (root at srvr22.engin.umich.edu [141.212.2.35]) by srvr5.engin.umich.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA06313 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 09:54:29 -0500 (EST) Received: from hubris.engin.umich.edu (root at hubris.engin.umich.edu [207.75.146.24]) by srvr22.engin.umich.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA07178 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 09:54:28 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (spencer at localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hubris.engin.umich.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA12027 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 09:54:27 -0500 (EST) Resent-Message-Id: <199901061454.JAA12027 at hubris.engin.umich.edu> Received: from srvr22.engin.umich.edu (root at srvr22.engin.umich.edu [141.212.2.35]) by srvr5.engin.umich.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA16436 for ; Fri, 1 Jan 1999 01:05:44 -0500 (EST) Received: from synchro.com (cccox.ne.mediaone.net [24.128.144.90]) by srvr22.engin.umich.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA17120 for ; Fri, 1 Jan 1999 01:05:43 -0500 (EST) From: "JudgeNet - the beer judge digest" To: "Digest Recipients" Reply-To: "JudgeNet - the beer judge digest" Subject: Digest for the period 12/31/98 - 01/01/99 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 01:03:12 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="Next_Part_SYNC786559945" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Hops: 1 Resent-To: spencer at engin.umich.edu Resent-Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 09:54:27 -0500 Resent-From: Spencer W Thomas Status: RO --Next_Part_SYNC786559945 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Table of contents ------------------------------------------------------ MCAB Update & request for comments (Louis Bonham) --Next_Part_SYNC786559945 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: Received: from postoffice.harvard.net by synchro.com with POP3 (Mailtraq/1.0.3.1018) id SYNC78395948F; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 23:04:56 -0500 >From root Wed Dec 30 23:02:08 1998 Received: (from root at localhost) by airsupply.harvard.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) id XAA23930 for postmaster at synchro.com; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 23:02:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from voyager.c-com.net (voyager.c-com.net [209.127.0.2]) by airsupply.harvard.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA23779 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 23:01:04 -0500 (EST) Received: from phoenix.net (dial16.as1.c-com.net [209.127.52.26]) by voyager.c-com.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA27190 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:01:35 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <368AF716.CD825443 at phoenix.net> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:01:26 -0600 From: Louis Bonham Errors-To: judge-owner at synchro.com Sender: judge at synchro.com Reply-To: "JudgeNet - the beer judge digest" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: JudgeNet - the beer judge digest Subject: MCAB Update & request for comments Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Apparently-To: judge at synchro.com X-Hops: 3 X-POST-MessageClass: 10; Mailing List Message Preparations for the first Masters Championship of Amateur Brewing ("MCAB"), which will be held in Houston on February 12-13, are continuing. The conference hotel is the Courtyard by Marriott (3131 West Loop South, Houston, Texas 77027, tel. 713-961-1640). We have a block of rooms available at $59/night (you must mention the MCAB when making your reservations to get this rate). We will be running the judging as follows: Qualifying Styles 1-9 will be judged Friday (February 12) evening, Qualifying Styles 10-18 will be judged Saturday midday, and Best of Show semifinals and finals will be held Saturday afternoon. At present, fourteen Master Judges from across the country have committed to attend and judge at the MCAB, and another half dozen have written to say that they may be attending but cannot yet commit. (If you are a Master Judge and wish to judge, please contact me ASAP to reserve your seats on the various panels.) At present, we are still giving BJCP Master Judges (including Honorary Master Judges) the chance to reserve a space on panels they want on a first-come, first serve basis if they will commit to attend the MCAB. In addition, if you want to judge at the MCAB and have the necessary point totals and exam score to qualify for BJCP Master status but have yet to have been formally promoted, let me know . . . we may be able to seat you as a master judge if we have enough advance warning. In addition, there will be a very small number of National Judges (George Fix, Paul Farnsworth, etc.) who are not officially listed as master judges, but whose credentials are such that no one could seriously complain if we treat them as master judges. As a result, if we run 3 judges per panel (27 judges per session), we will probably have at least 2 master judges on each panel, and some panels may well be composed of nothing but master judges. While this will probably make the MCAB one of the best-judged competitions in history, it raises a number of questions on which I'd like to poll the JudgeNet collective for their thoughts . . . . . (1) If we run 3 judges per panel, which conventional wisdom holds is the ideal panel size, we will probably need fewer that 6 National Judges per session. Obviously, we're gonna have many times this number available, including lots of folks who will be coming from across North America to attend. Any ideas on how we should choose among this pool of exceedingly well-qualified judges to fill out the panels? (2) Conventional wisdom is that 3 is the optimal panel size, both in terms of reaching decisions and having enough beer for the judges to be able to properly sample, particularly where the judges may need to sample and compare the beers a number of times. OTOH, going to 4 judges per panel would give more folks the chance to participate in the judging. OTOH, the whole point of the MCAB is to provide the highest possible quality competition, especially in terms of judging quality. Ergo, the question: 3 or 4 per panel? I encourage everyone to consider attending the MCAB. Except for nominal charges for MCAB-provided food, and transportation (and of your course your own travel, lodging, and food expenses), there will be no charge to attend. There will be technical presentations by George Fix, Paul Farnsworth, Dave Miller, Ralph Olson (Hopunion), Seth Schneider (Crosby and Baker), and a technical representative from Lallemand, as well as pub crawls and the usual fun and games you'd expect from the hosts of the Dixie Cup. Plus the chance to renew your friendships (and start new ones) with many of the best judges and amateur brewers in North America. As always, if you have any questions or comments, please write. Louis K. Bonham Organizer, Masters Championship of Amateur Brewing --Next_Part_SYNC786559945--