Return-Path: owner-judge at synchro.com 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 XAA18481 for ; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 23:21:52 -0500 (EST) Received: from redheat.rs.itd.umich.edu (0 at redheat.rs.itd.umich.edu [141.211.83.36]) by srvr22.engin.umich.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA22919 for ; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 23:21:51 -0500 (EST) Received: (from root at localhost) by redheat.rs.itd.umich.edu (8.8.5/2.5) with X.500 id XAA04254; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 23:21:50 -0500 (EST) Received: from uu6.psi.com (uu6.psi.com [38.145.155.3]) by redheat.rs.itd.umich.edu (8.8.5/2.5) with SMTP id XAA04196; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 23:21:45 -0500 (EST) Received: by uu6.psi.com (5.65b/4.0.071791-PSI/PSINet) via UUCP; id AA01644 for spencer at umich.edu; Mon, 26 Jan 98 23:20:54 -0500 Received: (from majordom at localhost) by synchro.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA13660 for judge-digest-outgoing; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 22:50:33 -0500 Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 22:50:33 -0500 Message-Id: <199801270350.WAA13660 at synchro.com> From: owner-judge-digest at synchro.com To: judge-digest at synchro.com Subject: judge-digest V1 #1530 Reply-To: judge at synchro.com Errors-To: owner-judge-digest at synchro.com Precedence: bulk Status: O X-Status: judge-digest Monday, 26 January 1998 Volume 01 : Number 1530 ============================================================================ 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: MCAB Announcement Re: judge-digest V1 #1529 BJCP exam webpage and schedule ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Louis Bonham Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 15:16:18 -0600 Subject: MCAB Announcement More news from MCAB Central . . . . . As I reported late last year, the Bluebonnet Brew Off (Dallas) indicated it had an administrative problem with an MCAB QE requirement (specifically, the MCAB's use of the BJCP Style Guides). The Bluebonnet has now indicated that because of this requirement, they are unable to accept the MCAB's invitation; accordingly, the Bluebonnet Brew Off will not be a QE for the first MCAB. We have since contacted the Mash Tongues (Ft. Collins, Colorado), and have extended an invitation to them to have the MashFest serve as a QE. I am pleased to report that they have accepted our invitation, and thus we will now have a QE in the Rocky Mountain region. This year's MashFest will be April 4. I have also just been informed that CABA has designated their Toronto competition (May) as the Canadian QE. The MCAB Steering Committee would like to thank Richard Oluszak and Eamonn McKernan of the CABA for their tireless efforts to help us insure that there is a Canadian QE in the MCAB! Thus, the final list of confirmed Qualifying Events and contact information for the first MCAB are: February 20-21 Kansas City Bier Meisters competition www.sound.net/~jweerts/98comp01.html Contact person: Steve Ford jweerts at sound.net February 21 Boston Homebrew Competition www.wort.org/bhc.html Contact person: Ken Jucks jucks at cfaft4.harvard.edu March 28 World Cup of Beer (Berkley, CA) www.slip.net/~tcedit/worldcup.htm Contact person: Doug Ashcraft Ashcraftmd at aol.com April 4 MashFest (Ft. Collins, Colorado) www.fortnet.org/~smills/masht.html Contact person: Scott Mills scott_mills at hp.com April 18 Bidal Society Competition (Kenosha, WI) Contact person: Jeffrey C. Sparrow jeffrey.c.sparrow at monsanto.com May 15 Sunshine Challenge (Orlando, FL) www.creol.ucf.edu/~cfhb/ Contact person: Steve Vallancourt STEVEBRAU at aol.com May CABA Great Canadian Homebrew Competition (Toronto) Contact person: Richard Oluszak richard.oluszak at sympatico.ca June 7 BURP Spirit of Free Beer (Vienna, VA) brewery.org/stevens/sofb/SoFB.html Contact person: Mark Stevens stevens at burp.org June 27-28 BUZZ-Off (Philadelphia, PA) www.voicenet.com/~rpmattie/buzzoff/index.html Contact person: Chuck Hanning Chuck_R_Hanning at sbphrd.com October Dixie Cup (Houston, Texas) www.foamrangers.com Contact person: Steve Moore swm at pdq.net November Novembeerfest (Seattle, WA) www.brewsbrothers.org/ Contact person: Jim Hinken jhinken at accessone.com Start brewing -- enter early and often -- and if you're a qualified BJCP judge, PLEASE help us advance amateur brewing by judging at as many QE's as you can. (If you're not a BJCP-certified judge [yet] but want to help us out on the MCAB, drop me a line -- there's lots to do all over the country, and every bit of effort counts.) And finally, a plea for cash and prizes for the QE's. The QE's are all taking on big tasks, as in some cases being a QE may cause their competitions to grow several orders of magnitude -- so they need our help. If you're in the beer or brewing business (or have any stroke with someone who is), please help get the MCAB off to a good start by supporting QE's with your donations of cash or prizes. [If anyone wants support *all* the QE's, please contact me -- we'll work with you to facilitate this and to make sure that your support is appropriately recognized on the MCAB website and in future MCAB publicity. Of course, we'll also be seeking financial sponsorships and other support of the MCAB proper, but at this time we'd prefer to see your support go to the QE's.] Steve Moore is currently planning the actual MCAB competition and associated technical conference / amateur brewers' congregation, and we are tentatively looking at the Presidents' Day weekend (mid-February 1999). We hope to have information on the date, competition location, and official MCAB rules by the end of the month. In the meantime, if anyone has questions or comments about the MCAB, please contact me. Louis K. Bonham lkbonham at phoenix.net ------------------------------ From: Lev Desmarais Date: Sat, 24 Jan 98 20:22:16 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: judge-digest V1 #1529 Anyone know where I can find the BJCP exam schedule? I heard a rumor there may be an exam in the Dallas area soon. I would like to verify the rumor, and plan my study schedule. Regards, Lev Desmarais =========================================================================== Lev K. Desmarais email: levd at airmail.net Home Page : http://web2.airmail.net/levd - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Programmer, Analyst, PDM Applications Engineer, Web Author, Brewer, Guitar-Slinger, Bassist, Harmonica Player, Pianist, Blues Man at large =========================================================================== ------------------------------ From: Scott Bickham Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 14:57:39 -0500 (EST) Subject: BJCP exam webpage and schedule Just a reminder that the current BJCP exam schedule can be found at my web page, http://www.trail.com/~bickham. There is also a link to the exam schedule through the official BJCP page at http://www.bjcp.org. Other goodies include the BJCP style guidelines in html format, which is easier to manage than the Adobe Acrobat version and the BJCP study guide. Most of the study guide has been rewritten by Ginger Wotring, Chuck Hanning, Peter Garofalo, Dave Sapsis, Ed Wolfe and myself, and after a round of reviewing and editing, it will be released. Finally, new on the page are examples of properly completed scoresheets. They were written by Dave Sapsis and myself at the exam given at the GABF, and admittedly, Dave's are a little better than mine, but I only had fifteen minutes to pour, serve and judge each exam beer ;-) The current exam schedule is listed below. Note that we are booked through the end of March, so no new exams will be added until April. Keep in mind that a 90 day notice is usually required to schedule an exam, and this can be done by e-mailing Jay Hersh and me at: exam_director at bjcp.org Good brewing, Scott Bickham Date Location Contact Person Phone/E-mail - ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/31 Santa Rosa, CA Byron Burch 800/544-1867 1/31 West Lebanon, NH Tom Ayres tom at unitedwaycc.org 1/31 Destin, FL Gary Essex brewer at beachlife.net (850)650-2337 2/7 Brighton, MI Bill Pfeiffer 810/229-0727 2/28 Hilo, Hawaii Cindy Goldstein Icti2468 at aol.com 2/28 Burlington, VT Tom Ayres tom at unitedwaycc.org 3/7 Boise, ID Loren Carter lcarter at claven.idbsu.edu 3/7 Anchorage AK Shane Docherty 907/345-4099 3/8 Boston, MA Jay Hersh drbeer at doctorbeer.com 3/14 Sacramento, CA Martin Lodahl lodahl at foothill.net 3/29 Kansas City, MO Alberta Rager 913/962-2501 3/? Washington, DC Jay Hersh drbeer at doctorbeer.com 5/10 Naperville, IL Steve McKenna stmckenna at amoco.com 5/16 Knoxville, TN Tom Karnowski karnowski at juno.com, 5/16 Idaho Falls, ID Gregg Smith GSMITHBEER at aol.com 423/694-4389 5/16 San Diego, CA Greg Lorton qasd at aol.com ------------------------------ End of judge-digest V1 #1530 **************************** Send subscription cancellations & changes to judge-request at synchro.com. Messages sent to the wrong address will be ignored.