Judging the beer that wasn't there.

[passedpawn]

Whatever happened to "Relax, don't worry, have a homebrew"? Especially when the OVERWHELMING majority of entries are properly received, handled, and judged.

The 165,000 members here who haven't posted are relaxing and drinking their homebrew and probably have the attitude you're expecting. So, thanks for doing what you do and keep up the good work, sir.

The people who have posted here, positive or negative, are certainly on your side. While you know that there was only 1 problem, they don't know that. This is a discussion forum, and when things go wrong they get discussed here.

 

[Flipadelphia]

On a personal note, I think the tone of criticisms of these competitions is insanely negative for both the magnitude of what's at stake and the nature of the hobby itself. Whatever happened to "Relax, don't worry, have a homebrew"? Especially when the OVERWHELMING majority of entries are properly received, handled, and judged.

1. People love to criticize over the internet anonymously.
2. You generally only hear from the complainers in any industry.
3. Keep up the good work.

 

[ktblunden]

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 to look for unclaimed "judging" numbers, and we then went through the cases to find which categories they were in so we could potentially identify them if folks popped who claimed they'd entered.

It's like how you don't just say, "hey, found a wallet!" You ask if anyone lost anything and if they say, "I misplaced a brown leather wallet with 'Bad Mother F---er' on it," you know it's theirs. Or something like that.

You had my plain old run-of-the-mill respect with your initial post. Your Pulp Fiction reference gives you my undying respect. Props dude, and carry on being awesome.