Subject: Digest for the period 5/17/2005 - 5/18/2005
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 01:00:38 -0400

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  1. with apologies to the handicapped (Jon Tobey) 
  2. judges who brew (Steve Fletty) 


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From: Jon Tobey  Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 08:06:13 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: with apologies to the handicapped 


I assure you I was not looking down my nose at the asnomics (one of which
happens to be my girlfriend), nor turning a blind eye to the color blind. Nor
those poor souls whose affliction causes them to over focus on the literal and
miss the big picture.

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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From: Steve Fletty  Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 11:58:01 -0500
Subject: judges who brew 



----- Original Message ----- >
> From: MeadGuild`at`aol.com  Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 17:37:18 EDT
> Subject: Judges and brewing
>
>
> It is difficult to imagine someone who can judge without
> brewing.

I tend to agree with this.

I'll pay more attention to and have more respect for a score sheet from a 
good brewer than Joe Random National/Master-Judge.

I'd rather get a score sheet from someone with practical knowledge of the 
brewing process than some dickhead who thinks he or she is some short of 
Judge God. And I've met a few of those worthless wankers.

In a recent large regional contest, all I got from a well-respected beer 
author and National BCJP Wanker in the final Overall Impression section of 
my score sheet was this: "Not grabbing me."

Hmmmmm......

Thanks, buddy. Bet that took a boatload of effort to scrawl three words.

Why didn't it grab you? What would it take? What would you do to the grain 
bill, hops? Yeast suggestion? Technique flaw?

Buy me a beer some time and I'll name names. ;-)

--
Steve "I Can Write More Than Three Words" Fletty 

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