For the past 6 months my homebrew club has been trying to gather everyone to start a second study group for the BJCP test that will occur in mid march. I missed the first study group and test when I missed a club meeting and sign up. There were 40 people who took the class and test, apparently, the biggest ever to do so. Now it seems I have missed the second group as the first meeting occured this past thursday, which I learned of friday morning...damn it.
I have decided that although I can not make the study group I will try to study on my own and take the test, which I heard is not easy. I want to take the test mainly to learn more about beer (history, making, production etc.) than wanting it for judging beer. I find the judging portion to be very opinionated, anyway, wish me luck.
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Marcus >> I think you are right, the beer judges I have met are "very" knowledgeable about beer but are too opinionated. They spent more time trying to tell me what is wrong with my beer instead of enjoying it, which most of the time they would say, "your beer is really good, did you use xyz malt in it, you don't have too - it is actually out of style because of xyz malt." Well I say to them, " is the beer good, would you drink it again, (they say yes) then don't worry about xyz malt."
I totally agree. I think sometimes they feel compelled to choose something to justify their score. That's not what I call judging or my reason for taking this course. Better beer, better beer!
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