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| John Hayes and Dan Norton from Enki Brewing recently approached me with some questions about sour beers. Like many even fairly well educated beer drinkers they both felt that their knowledge and ability to judge the sours was not quite where they would like it. As a BJCP beer judge I really appreciate those who know their beer shortcomings and want to improve on them! I know several ranked judges who specifically request not to judge these categories of beer simply because they don’t like them…to me this is something they should work at and either learn to like them or at least recognize good from bad examples!
I had already been amassing a collection of sour beers after our recent Belgium trip, so this was a perfect time to break some of those out and see if I had the chops to teach others what I know of the sour styles. I have been thinking of doing a BJCP prep class for the Western Suburbs in the next year or two and this would be a great way to test my skills. And an excuse t … |
Source: JABlog: A Minnesota-Centric Beer Blog
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