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JonW
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Brewcommune Judges the Taste of HB

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I was approached a while back to see if I was interested in organizing the beer judging for the Taste of Huntington Beach. Hmm... let me think about that.... duh, YES!

In addition to myself, we had Randy (rcwebrew), Derrin (Backyard Brewer), Tony (Maltose Parrot), Tim (maltbarley) and Chris (LexusChris) doing the judging.

Because of the nature of the event, it didn't lend itself to judging via BJCP style scoring, so we adopted the Ratebeer.com / BeerAdvocate.com rating systems. We created 3 teams of 2 judges and divided the breweries up into the 3 teams. Each team would go and get samples from the breweries and would discuss the characteristics of the beer and come up with a consensus score between them. Each team advanced their top 3 beers and then needed to sample the other 6 beers that were advanced from the other teams.

There were 18 breweries and 43 beers total. The top spot went to a brand new brewery from HB called RIIP Brewing. This was a really fun event and we should be getting invited back to do this every year. :cheers:
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Re: Brewcommune Judges the Taste of HB

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Here are the scores for the top 9 beers.
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