BJCP Course Schedule

[Saruman (Reuben Gray)]

Is there going to be another one for those of us who had already made our plans around the original schedule? I can't make the 16th 

[Padraic]

Is there going to be another one for those of us who had already made our plans around the original schedule? I can't make the 16th 

Sorry a rushed reply there earlier, I'll sort ye out! there are 3-4 who can't make the new date. So I can sort out a seperate date with ye!

[Saruman (Reuben Gray)]

Grand thanks

[Shane Phelan]

Looks like I miss that date (16th) too.

[Dunkel]

Just wanted to say a big thanks to Partridge9 for leading the tasting today. Drinking Judging Weizen Eisbock (12%) at 10.30 am may not be the wisest thing to do, especially when followed by an impromptu whiskey tasting  Came home and slept for three hours before being given out to by SWMBO.

It's a tough life, being a trainee judge 

[johnrm]

Sounded interesting, sorry I could not make it.

[Tom]

Well jealous! Having said that, I'd be starting fights in busaras if I'da had a whiskey at lunchtime.

[brenmurph]

Happy days, Just passed my Master Brewers Association of America exam after a feckin long slog battling through the paperwork and 'understanding' the material.

Very clever, shockingly clever, how they structure these online exams, presure is intense, time short and the questions have to be really 'studied' before answering. Nothing is as stated in the manuals, you have to understand the topic to figure the answer.
Re BJCP beer tasting has really helped, thanks to Padraic for settin up the course and all the people on our course. I got 100% on the beer styles section so I obviously learned something from my reading and all the Farringtons and Kavanaghs sessions. Not quite 100%  on the other sections though especially beer history and politics which was highly confusing and challenging.

Roll on the BJCP online exam and real test in feb Will keep studying

[Saruman (Reuben Gray)]

Congrats Bren

Now, when do we get our November meet for those of us who couldn't change our plans after the date change?

[johnrm]

I can row in with Reuben as I couldn't make Saturday.

[matthewdick23]

theres some who didnt do the belgians either...maybe offer both on same day- morning and afternoon?

[Saruman (Reuben Gray)]

That only works if there is beer left.

The problem with this one was that it was scheduled and set in stone and at the last minute the date was changed and a number of us had made arrangements around the original date that couldn't be moved.
Beer was held back as a result.

I'm not sure if that was the case for the Belgian one if someone simply couldn't make an agreed date. Best wait to ask the man with the beer 

[matthewdick23]

yeah, there was beer kept for the belgians too

[CARA]

I'm in the same boat as Matthew there

[Padraic]

I won't have time until after Christmas to run the German day (16/11) and the Belgian Day (12/10). The Belgian day there were 5 people missing and the German day had more people missing. If someone else wants to run either of these two days that's fine by me, but they will need to be squeezed into January if I am organising it. I might start a seperate thread for people to let me know which days they have missed!