[THC] Exciting news [foamblowersofindiana] AHA National Homebrew Competition First Round Judging in Indianapolis
Linda Swihart
swihart at purdue.edu
Mon Jan 18 11:17:48 EST 2010
Well I mentioned this a couple days ago. Here's Ron's email message that
he has asked me to forward. Rick and I have already sent email that we
plan to judge all sessions. (After all entries arrive and get flighted
then the number of sessions will be figured). This is way too cool that
it's happening in Indy this year.
ANYBODY who wants to judge or steward should volunteer. (Keep in mind
that this is *not* for spectators. The rrom needs to stay quiet and the
judges and stewards focused on getting a good job done.)
The BJCP class participants will all be welcomed as novice judges, and
it will help them prep for the May 22 exam. Any others who wish to judge
may volunteer as novice judges as well, no experience required and not
necessary to be in the BJCP class. All novice judges will be placed with
experienced judges and will learn a lot, and will do a fine job. It's
very rare for somebody who tries to do a decent job at this to not do a
fine job.
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Everyone,
This is a Big Deal! For the first time in a very long time, the First
Round Judging for the Largest Homebrew Competition in the World, the AHA
Nationals, will not be held in Chicago, and for the First Time ever, it
will be held here in Indianapolis!!!
This is something that Brian Steuerwald and myself have been thinking
about for a while, and we made it happen this year. The AHA would like
to have multiple locations for each of the 8 regional first round
competition sites, so hopefully this will be the start of alternating
this location with Chicago for the Great Lakes region.
It is very important that we do a great job with this competition, and
we are very confident we will. With the BJCP study groups that myself
and others have conducted over the past 5 years, we have developed a
large base of trained and experienced BJCP judges here in Indiana. We
are counting on this group, as well as many other volunteers to help
make this competition a great success!
Brian and myself are somewhat sharing the leadership roles of running
this large competition, which may see anywhere from 500 - 750 entries.
Technically, Brian will be the Competition Coordinator and I will be the
Judge Coordinator, but we will be dividing up the tasks slightly different.
IMPORTANT - We still need a Competition Registrar, who will be
responsible for the cellar, data entry, organization of entries, and
leading the stewards. We already have several experienced stewards that
will help tremendously with this role. We prefer to keep all our higher
level judges available for judging, but anyone that would like to help
with this Competition Registrar role should contact us ASAP.
Sun King Brewery has volunteered to be our receiving, storing and
judging site, which should work out great. A Big Thanks to Sun King for
welcoming us in for this event. This is also going to make it much
easier for many of us here in Indiana to enter our beers, since we can
drop them off in person at Sun King (and of course pick up a growler
while we are there).
This First Round competition's purpose is to identify the top 3 beers in
each major BJCP category for our region, which includes all of Indiana,
Illinois and Michigan. These winning beers then advance to the Final
Round held at the AHA National Conference in June in Minneapolis this
year (this is a traveling conference that goes all over the country).
You can learn more about the competition and the conference at
www.HomebrewersAssociation.org.
More information about hotels, judging and weekend activities and
agenda, etc. will be forthcoming, but for now, we need to start lining
up BJCP Judges, Stewards and Volunteers. The competition will be held
over the weekend of April 23rd, 24th and 25th. Ideally, we can do this
in one day on Saturday, 24th, but knowing that it takes other regions
additional sessions on Friday Night as well as Sunday Morning to get it
all done, we need to keep these times open as options.
We are really looking forward to hosting a great and fun competition,
but we need your help. Please contact us with the following information
if you can help out...
Competition Registrar:
- Contact Us
Judges:
- Name
- BJCP Rank and Experience
- BJCP Number
- Email Address
- Availability (23rd, 24th, 25th)
Stewards and Volunteers:
- Name
- Experience
- Email Address
- Availability (23rd, 24th, 25th)
Let us know if you have any questions or need any additional information.
Thanks,
Ron Smith
RonSmith at MarketWiseSolutions.com <mailto:RonSmith%40MarketWiseSolutions.com>
Mob: 317-201-6535
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