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Well, the little bit I did get recorded and listened to definitely helped, just wish I would have tried harder at getting it all recorded. I do remember when taking the online entrance exam that knowing a lot about the style guidelines is very helpful. I remember a lot of questions about...

Having a brew party June 9th if anyone is interested in swinging by. Will start brewing early/mid morning. And a BBQ get together will start around 3pm. Feel free to come for either or both. Will have our Kolsch and hopefully a Saison on tap. And if there is still some left, an American Amber...

YES! That's exactly it! Thank you! I knew we were trying to say the same thing. Just couldn't figure out the best way to say it without contradicting myself at the same time. Lol This is Jesse. Not that we really know people's names in the class. Lol

Yep, I'm in Fred's class. Maybe we can say it's all just semantics now? LOL But i can't help myself, enjoying the convo to much. The beers are given a placing relative to each other, but are they evaluated to each other? They shouldn't be both evaluated to the style and evaluated(but that...

Experienced and well trained judges have the style guidelines memorized and know what a beer should taste like when they drink it. I've learned, and already find myself doing this, that when they taste a beer they almost immediately have a final score in their minds. The judging sheet is just to...

From what I've been learning in the BJCP prep course I'm currently taking. I'm pretty sure they still judge to style. And not judge one beer against another. They are looking for the exceptional beers in their respective styles, not exceptional beers compared to the other beers. Though...

It's hard for sure. But like anything, it takes training and practice. U learn what a beer style should taste like and u judge a beer on how well it hits those tastes. Whether u like the tastes or not. Along with beers u don't like u will no doubt come across beers that r contaminated and have...

Adam, The beers are still, and always, judged to style. The placings are just given to the beers in order of which beers are the best example of their particular style. Not if it's a better beer then the others in that category. Even the best of show is still done this way. For example, if u...

Oh man, so now I feel like a tool. Even though they don't mention it anywhere on their site this competition used mini-bos, which is basically what bigk mentions above. They take the highest ranking judges and these judges choose from all the beers in a category, that made it to the mini-bos...

Ok, now there is something that finally makes some sense here, especially if the mini bos is full of ONLY certified judges. Though they should spell that out in the rules...maybe they did and I didn't notice it. LOL Guess I better read back through them again.

I have to share a paragraph straight out of the Michigan Beer Guide that I coincidentally just came across. Article is from the March/April issue page 18, titled The 2012 Competition Season is Here: Homebrew at the W.E.B. Homebrew Competition: In less than five years this competition has grown...

Damn! Man they really messed up this comp. Such a shame. I was just hoping that maybe they confused our(Jesse & Bill that is) two beers in that category and gave us 2nd place for the wrong one. And if that was the case then I could live with that and it wouldn't affect anyone else(Adam), which...

Hey Adam, so how did you score on your Cali Common? I think it's funny that we both used the name of our cities in the name of our beers.

Pretty good. Ended up low on gravity so our imperial IPA won't be so imperial. Oh well, tastes like it has a lot of potential, so it should still make a pretty good IPA. Great combination of a ton of hops.

That's very cool, hard to beat an incentive like that! Will start trying a little harder to make it. Will do, gook luck on getting tickets!

We are definitely brewing this Saturday if anyone is interested in stopping by. Will be brewing probably from 9am until 2pm or so. PM me for my address "every meeting you have a chance of 'winning' the opportunity to brew your beer and have it on tap at the Malty Dog." - Really?! That's...

Cool, we might brew next weekend if you are interested in stopping by to get acquainted. As far as Malty dog goes, we have been trying to make it to one of the club meetings. It's just been difficult to find the time to fit everything in and still find time to brew. Which of course is the most...

Here is the report I got from Ward Labs from a sample at my house in Clawson. It was taken April of 2011. I haven't done any water adjusting(and not nearly enough brewing) since last fall(My wife and I adopted a little boy) so I pretty much will have to re-learn everything about water...

Yeah I'm pretty sure Ward Labs is who I used fishkid. Adam, sounds great, how did u score on it?

Awesome! Looking forward to reading through you thread about the Detroit water report and comparing it to the report I got after sending in a sample of our water. I've done some adjustments and have gotten great results. Our first 1st place at the Ren. Fest. was water adjusted!