BJCP Course 2015?

[Partridge9]

Fair play bren !!

[brenmurph]

forgot to re-iterate Kildare is 45 minutes on our direct green bus from westmorland street thats about the same time as the CIE bus to Clondalkin. By car its 25 minutes from red cow 22 mins Newlands X. Bus is 10 euros return and is every 30 minutes

We may even have a masterclass on hops as it will be hop harvest time as well! So if you have not been to @maltcracker's base yet then you are seriously missing out if beer is your passion...theres no place better to learn

[Partridge9]

Sounds great to me !!

[molc]

Damn that sounds like a great day out.

[shanek]

Sounds fantastic, cheers Bren

[Paul B]

Would anyone like to get a whatsapp group going? Starting to get serious about studying for November about would be useful to be able to drop questions and discuss approaches.

[giacomo]

+1 for the whatsapp group

Btw: I'm having troubles paying for the online exam... I'm getting transactions denied... anyone else having the same issue?

[Paul B]

PM your numbers and we'll get the party started 

[Paul B]

People will kill me for spamming the group - can someone confirm if we will be doing both the written exam and tasting or just the latter?

[giacomo]

Just the tasting.

From http://www.bjcp.org/membergd.php:
"Judges wishing to advance to ranks beyond Certified must take the BJCP Beer Judge Written Proficiency Examination, a 90 minute written examination."

[Rossa]

Would anyone like to get a whatsapp group going? Starting to get serious about studying for November about would be useful to be able to drop questions and discuss approaches.

We actually had a chat about that a month ago. I presumed it had started. Is it on the go yet?

[Partridge9]

Folks , just to clarify, we are just scheduled for the tasting exam , not the written.
You need to score 70 per cent in the tasting to qualify for the written.
Also it can take months to get the tasting results back !!!

[molc]

Did the online exam before work this morning and passed! 200 questions in an hour really keeps you in your toes.

[giacomo]

Did it yesterday evening... yeah, time is critical and the exam is long...

[johnrm]

From experience, it can take a number (ahem) of times to get through this.
Time is critical.

Do not be disheartened if you do not get it first time around!
Take a break and go again.