Am just approaching Section J of the BIABacus help.
Section J is based on the BJCP beer appreciation method. Other organisations have similiar structures. None of them agree (of course, like every other measurement in brewing ) but the basics they rely on are the same and I think they are wrong [EDIT: I think I am wrong now - see post #5]. Let's look at Section J of the pre-release BIABacus... Forget what judging system you use, whether the beer is being judged out of 20 or 50 points in total, they all fix a proportion of those points to a certain beer quality.
In the BJCP system for example, they assign 12 out of 50 points to aroma. I asked a BJCP judge what happens in a beer style where there is little or no aroma. He replied that you just give it 12 points. I have a problem with that straight away. (I know the opposite can be argued but I think that is totally lazy.) [EDIT: Once again, see post #5].
Here's some more thoughts. If you are going to have categories, I can see a lot missing. Can you?
Why wouldn't one major category be balance? Another category could be complexity. Another one could be subtlety. I don't know. But one thing I do know is that aroma and flavour in something like an APA are major things I enjoy whereas in a lager, a very subtle complexity of hops and malt is what I am looking for.
So what I am saying is that, perhaps we should stop and consider each style individually. I'd go as far to say that some styles should be judged on say four categories whereas others might need eight. This would be an inconvenient truth but it could well be the truth .
What do you think? Don't be afraid of speaking up. We have discovered heaps of other dodgy info out there so why not this one as well?
Anyway, I'm drunk now and going to bed .
PP
Beer Judging Methods - Something not quite right?
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