Subject: Digest for the period 1/17/2006 - 1/18/2006
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 01:04:47 -0500

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  1. BJCP Continuing Education Program 


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From: BJCP Education Director  Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:05:26 -0600
Subject: BJCP Continuing Education Program 


Every active brewer and judge looks for new information about beer.  
>From brewing tips to judging fundamentals, our knowledge about liquid 
bread grows and evolves.  Not only do we love to learn, but also we 
love to share our knowledge with others!

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Did you know you can now get credit for organizing, teaching or just 
attending these sessions?  Hey, you were going to do it anyway, why 
not get a little bonus?

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The BJCP Continuing Education Program is available to help you plan, 
teach and get BJCP credit for you efforts.

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We offer two variants on credit, explained on the BJCP Website.  But 
we've designed it so that most beer related activities could qualify. 
 This means your clubs' annual pubcrawl, your club meetings, group 
brewing sessions, BJCP prep courses and special events can all 
qualify.

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Here's all we ask:

1)      Ask for credit before the event.

2)      Have a knowledgeable instructor, presenter or guest.

3)      Have a tasting element to identify and discuss ingredients, 
methods and/or flaws.

4)      Give us some feedback from the attendees in the form of 
written analysis, a quiz or review that pertains to the session. OK, 
so this last one is there to prove attendance..  But we gotta know 
that stuff..

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Who's eligible:

1)      Anyone can organize, instruct or speak for a class.  All we 
ask of presenters is they be knowledgeable in the subject.  
Organizers can be the presenters.  

2)      Any current BJCP judge can earn non-judging credit towards 
advancing in rank by presenting, organizing or attending.  This 
includes those who have taken the BJCP exam, but haven't received 
their results (or judge number) back.

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Why do this:

1)      To make better brewers and judges in your area.

2)      To create better feedback from competitions

3)      To increase knowledge among judges about trends, new products,
 emerging and existing styles.

4)      To score better (uh. on the exam, we mean.)

5)      TO HAVE FUN!!!

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Any questions or comments please email us at cep`at`bjcp.org

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Your CEP team,

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Kristen England - Director

Kevin Pratt - Assistant director

Ted Hausotter - Assistant director



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