Subject: Digest for the period 7/20/2007 - 7/21/2007
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 01:04:27 -0400

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  1. Re: beer in italy (Mark Garthwaite) 
  2. Trouble with Links (MeadGuild`at`aol.com) 


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From: Mark Garthwaite  Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:27:36 -0500
Subject: Re: beer in italy 


Bryan Gros asks about beer in Italy:

Let Lorenzo Dabove be your guide.

http://www.kuaska.it/nuovo/default.asp?a=chi&lan=eng

He's passionate about craft brewing in Italy.  The growth of small  
brewers there is quite robust in fact.  His website has plenty of  
links but some of course are only in Italian.  A quick look pulls up  
a nice link to breweries by region:

http://www.mondobirra.org/micro.htm

Fortunately, many of the Italian brewers have embraced the Belgian  
styles.  Le Baladin in particular has a very talented brewer.

Buon Viaggio!

Mark Garthwaite
Madison, WI

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From: MeadGuild`at`aol.com  Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 02:27:40 EDT
Subject: Trouble with Links 


It is not unusual for links on the BJCP Competition Schedule to  be
dead or not directly related to the competition.
 
The dead links are almost always the e-mail  links for the organizer.  
While this may be a link setup problem, organizers need to  double
check them so judges can contact the organizer.
 
The links not directly related to the competition  fall into two groups.
1. Links that direct you to County/State Fair websites and give you  no 
    information the competition, e.g., what styles  will be judged, what
    bottle sizes are acceptable, where to send  entries, and to whom
    send judge applications.
2. Links that direct to the website of the club sponsoring the  competition
    where you are left to your own devices to  "hunt-n-peck" for the
    competition details.
In both cases, there is no reason for not submitting a link  that goes
directly to the competition details. 
 
Dick



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