BJCP Course 2015?

[Andrew]

Hi Andrew, will be away that weekend unfortunately. Any chance of bringing a few along to maltcracker this Sat also?

Unfortunately I've only got one capsule of each- I could look to bottle a few for you though.

[Kellie]

Paul we will cover off flavours on Saturday as well, if that helps

[Paul B]

Hi Andrew, will be away that weekend unfortunately. Any chance of bringing a few along to maltcracker this Sat also?

Unfortunately I've only got one capsule of each- I could look to bottle a few for you though.

No problem Andrew sounds like maltcracker have it covered!

[pob]

Alfie's sounds good

[DoubleG]

Beer Flavour Standards refresher
12 pm, Saturday 17th October,
Venue: tbc, Dublin centre.

1. Molc
2. Giacomorizzo
3. Pob
4. Shanek
5. Johnny
6. DoubleG

[Andrew]

Beer Flavour Standards refresher
12 pm, Saturday 17th October,
Venue: Alfie Byrnes, Dublin centre.

1. Molc
2. Giacomorizzo
3. Pob
4. Shanek
5. Johnny
6. DoubleG
7. Phil Tavey
8. Mark Nixon
9. Julie Levy

Also, Alfie Byrnes has been confirmed.

[SlugTrap]

1. Molc
2. Giacomorizzo
3. Pob
4. Shanek
5. Johnny
6. DoubleG
7. Phil Tavey
8. Mark Nixon
9. Julie Levy
10. Slugtrap

Open to all, I'm assuming...?

[Andrew]

1. Molc
2. Giacomorizzo
3. Pob
4. Shanek
5. Johnny
6. DoubleG
7. Julie Levy
8. Slugtrap

Open to all, I'm assuming...?

I'm capping at 12 people. Anyone can join but I'm slightly favouring the BJCP'ers.

See you all tomorrow.

[DoubleG]

Sorry guys I'm going to have to pull out of this. Apologies for the late notice.

[Boycott]

1. Molc
2. Giacomorizzo
3. Pob
4. Shanek
5. Johnny
6. Phil Tavey
7. Mark Nixon
8. Julie Levy
9. Slugtrap
10. DCBrewing
11. Maja

[Will_D]

As the exam is just around the corner I dug out this old post about scroring beer in the exam:
http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.ie/forum/index.php/topic,5670.msg71857.html#msg71857

[With a few updates]

Subtitle: Lessons Learned!

I have just been crunching some numbers and it is obvious that to do well on the numerical scoring you need to match the judges score as closely as possible and not just score the beer as you would in a competion.

For example the really good beer should score 44 or 45 so is that what you would score it?

No way as the chances of a judge awarding MORE than you are remote to say the least. They are more likely to mark the beer lower say they mark 38. You mark 44. The difference is 6

If you marked it down to say 42 then the difference would be 4 (National level)  If they marked higher then they could go to 46 and the diff would still be 4!

For the really good beers ( in your opinion ) then this approach should help

The same logic applies at the bottom end!

As regards the first beer [A Fullers ESB iirc!]: I fell into the same trap on the online-exam:

Qn:  "Category 8 A, B, C cannot be obtained in bottles in the US" True or False

I naturally put down false but its true!

It states in the guide that the style notes apply to the cask/keg versions. These are hard to find in the US in cask / kegs and the stuff the brewers bottle is NOT the same beer! Its brewed to a higher abv with no regard to other critical factors like IBU! So therefore in our exam it was bottled and therefore not to style! Sneaky eh!

One final note: If I had scored all beers as 29 or 32 the average diff would be 4, If 30 or 31 would be 3.666

Its easy enough to do with excel!

[shanek]

Folks, I should probably know this at this stage. For the tasting exam do you have a copy of the style guides? I checked on the BJCP website but didnt find the answer. Cheers.

[giacomo]

No, it's a closed book exam. I don't agree with this approach, but this is how the exam is done

[Will_D]

In preparation for the exam the NCB'ers are holding a Siebel off-flavours day on Sunday the 1st of November from about 2pm  in the Rugby Club.

Please sign on here if you are interested:

http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.ie/forum/index.php/topic,10887.0.html

This is free to NCB members and there will just be a nominal charge for non NCB'ers

Every little helps!

[shanek]

Will D, which rugby club? Cheers