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Sure. Can certainly calibrate w the first beer in the flight. Main point is judges sync up. Agreed.
Calling all those in the NHC Today
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So...we had a round table beer review yesterday. The taste panel was made up of experienced brewers (3), and experienced beer judges (2), and one professional brewer.
While I was there as a participant, my involvement was as a neutral bystander, just there to observe. It is difficult to judge your own beer is what many tell me!
We had bottled an extra beer of each entry, just for this purpose.
What was most impressive was the carbonation was spot on. This is always a big concern when bottling beer.
At this stage, it makes no difference as we cannot correct any errors made at the NHC.
Both of the experienced beer judges (one of which was a professional brewer) disagreed on most counts with the results from the NHC.
There was only one comment that was agreed with, my Helles being slightly bitter. My example had a moderate hop bitterness, which supports the malty palate. But this is right out of the BJCP Style Guide.
The conclusion was the NHC judges, being pressured to expedite the process, were simply hastily eliminating beers.
Certainly this was the case at the NHC. Many otherwise quality beers were overlooked in the quest for meeting time constraints.
As such, we will never enter this comp again. This is not a complaint on my part, simply a statement of fact based on independent feedback yesterday.
On a related side note, how many of those judges have been to North Germany, to sample the classic Pils, or to Bavaria, to have a Munich Helles?
While I was there as a participant, my involvement was as a neutral bystander, just there to observe. It is difficult to judge your own beer is what many tell me!
We had bottled an extra beer of each entry, just for this purpose.
What was most impressive was the carbonation was spot on. This is always a big concern when bottling beer.
At this stage, it makes no difference as we cannot correct any errors made at the NHC.
Both of the experienced beer judges (one of which was a professional brewer) disagreed on most counts with the results from the NHC.
There was only one comment that was agreed with, my Helles being slightly bitter. My example had a moderate hop bitterness, which supports the malty palate. But this is right out of the BJCP Style Guide.
The conclusion was the NHC judges, being pressured to expedite the process, were simply hastily eliminating beers.
Certainly this was the case at the NHC. Many otherwise quality beers were overlooked in the quest for meeting time constraints.
As such, we will never enter this comp again. This is not a complaint on my part, simply a statement of fact based on independent feedback yesterday.
On a related side note, how many of those judges have been to North Germany, to sample the classic Pils, or to Bavaria, to have a Munich Helles?
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