Recent content by jweikert

I started the Beer Simple blog (beer-simple.com) as a place to talk about ways to simplify your brewing process while making it better. Easier, less money, higher quality, more enjoyment, etc. It's also going to do some beer community commentary/editorial writing, just for fun and to start...

Point in fact, my process DID catch it, and at the first available opportunity. There's no process that would catch it in real time. How would you know you had missing entries until all of the entries you checked in have been checked in? Both entry stickers didn't fall off bottles, ONE entry...

"Those guys" gave their time and effort to put on a competition, and your opinion of their skill at doing it is beyond irrelevant. We had incredible volunteers, stewards, and judges, and they did an outstanding job. As for whether the problem can be fixed, see my previous post on the matter...

We weren't specifically instructed to, no - but since we had the motivation (wanted to identify our few unknown beers) and the technology (didn't take long to put the list of non-received entries together), it seemed like a good idea. We had a very diligent registrar who was on-the-ball-enough...

First, here's how you end up with accounting problems in a competition like this: beers are tagged and their bottle label gets an identical tag so that you can tie the judging number to the entry number. Ten people are sorting 1400 bottles of beer, and one or two tagged bottle labels go missing...

Since this was my competition, I'd be happy to respond publicly. First, here's how you end up with accounting problems in a competition like this: beers are tagged and their bottle label gets an identical tag so that you can tie the judging number to the entry number. Ten people are...

REGARDING PLACE INDICATORS ON SCORE SHEETS (Sorry if that looks all shout-y and authoritarian, just wanted to make sure everyone saw it!): Our judges were told to go ahead and put a place indicator on the cover sheet if that beer advanced in their flight (though even some of them were unaware...