Subject: Digest for the period 3/26/2005 - 3/27/2005
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 01:01:36 -0500

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  1. A CEP Suggestion 


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From: Jon Tobey  Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 11:16:03 -0800 (PST)
Subject: A CEP Suggestion 


I'm glad the BJCP finally got involved with a continuing education program. I
would also suggest that in order to maintain our credentials that it become a
requirement that every judge must enter at least one contest/year. This would
do two things:

1) Ensure that judges brew, which I feel is critical for helping people
troubleshoot their beers. (Of course this makes the assumption that helping
people make better beers is part of our goal. That is, a competition could just
be about who makes the best beer, and then feedback should only pertain to how
a particular beer stacks up to the guidelines, not how to improve the beer.
This is another topic entirely.)
2) Ensure that judges have empathy for our customers. Getting score sheets back
can best be described as "enlightening," and I'm not necessarily talking about
in terms of how to make better beer. 

Many similar organizations do this. For instance when I taught skiing I had to
take regular clinics to maintain my credentials. Of course, these clinics also
gave me credits to furthering my credentials. 




Jon Tobey 
Ideastream 
360-793-8831 
"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them." - Alfred Whitehead


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