Hey guys,
So I'm running a Homebrew Club, and for the last year and a bit we've been having competitions bi-monthly on a given style. We've been judging these based on BJCP standards, with the idea that it could help us learn and edit our beers to get better and possibly enter in regional competitions and beyond.
Anyway, this year its been decided to do a SMaSH competition, and while you could still submit a beer as a BJCP category, there are a few that may not fall in to any category at all. Since SMaSH's are a bit 'experimental' and learning about the balance of Malt and Hops, I'm struggling a bit on how to best proceed with judging this comp.
I've had some input which has been good, and I'm leaning on us ignoring BJCP, and focusing on the hop, and its characteristics. But as for judging categories.. I'm just not sure on how to proceed.
Has anyone put on a competition and judged SMaSH's? What did you do? How did it go? Would you change anything?
Worst comes to worse, I have a gift of a 'beer tasting kit' thing I got as a gift once. It rates things like 'sight', 'sip', 'taste', and I think something else.
I want to be able to help give the judges some sort of guidelines to work with, other than taste the beer. Rate out of 10..
So I'm running a Homebrew Club, and for the last year and a bit we've been having competitions bi-monthly on a given style. We've been judging these based on BJCP standards, with the idea that it could help us learn and edit our beers to get better and possibly enter in regional competitions and beyond.
Anyway, this year its been decided to do a SMaSH competition, and while you could still submit a beer as a BJCP category, there are a few that may not fall in to any category at all. Since SMaSH's are a bit 'experimental' and learning about the balance of Malt and Hops, I'm struggling a bit on how to best proceed with judging this comp.
I've had some input which has been good, and I'm leaning on us ignoring BJCP, and focusing on the hop, and its characteristics. But as for judging categories.. I'm just not sure on how to proceed.
Has anyone put on a competition and judged SMaSH's? What did you do? How did it go? Would you change anything?
Worst comes to worse, I have a gift of a 'beer tasting kit' thing I got as a gift once. It rates things like 'sight', 'sip', 'taste', and I think something else.
I want to be able to help give the judges some sort of guidelines to work with, other than taste the beer. Rate out of 10..