So I received my NHC score results in the mail on Thursday and I am really happy with my score. The beer was far better than the original one I sent in. It has more smoke and malt backbone that I really thought it would do good and it did. I received a score of 38.5 which is only 1/2 point more than the regional round but personally I think it's a much better beer. On another note I feel pissed about the fact that there are no comments on the score sheets for this beer. The regional round was littered with comments and it really made me rethink a bit on how to make the re-brew beer better. This is exactly my problem with competitions. A lot of judges who judge these competitions are not BJCP certified and you get no real feedback on your beer. If I am paying $7, $8, $9+ to enter plus $15+ to ship them off, I better get some damned comments back. Thats what I am paying for. I honestly could give a crap about placing 1st, 2nd or 3rd in anything. The comments are worth their weight in gold if you get that. Now both judges who judged my Smoked Porter were BJCP certified, I guess that's what makes me more angry about it. These people should know better, they should know how to judge and what they would expect from a judge who is drinking their beer. So I sent an email to the organizer in hopes to get some answers and maybe help make the NHC better next year. We will see what happens. Anyway it's an on going rant for me. Some competitions I send off to are just awesome, some aren't. It's already hard enough to convince someone to send their beers off, adding in shitty judging will ruin that forever.
Anyway here are my scoresheets:
Smoked Porter 2nd Round NHC 2010
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