When I signed in at the registration desk on Friday evening I find that I'm assigned to judge Belgian Strong Ales; "Awesome" I say to myself, or at least I think I did! We had 10 beers in our round and most of them were good, but one stood out above the rest. It was a Belgian Strong Golden Ale and was as close to Duvel as you can get without being there! ;-)
I asked the photographer if he minded taking a few "action" shots while we were judging and he agreed. The following is the pictorial representation of the beer judging process:
Pouring the beer
Smelling the beer
Looking at the beer
Scoring and writing down notes
Tasting the beer
More scoring and notesThat pretty much sums it up. Yep it's a tough job, but somebodies got to do it! ;-)
We had to drive through a thunderstorm the entire way home, and at one point I thought I saw Dorothy and Toto fly by, oh sorry we're not in Kansas anymore!
2 comments:
u look so serious.. i think i couldnt stop smiling if they gave me that job....sweeeeeeet
RBP
P.S. I hope Dude will post pictures of our strong beer-filled nights friday and saturday
RBP - i had my game face on for the judging, but we had fun when it was over!
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