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mtnrockhopper:
I've had a request from some members to do blind homebrew tastings and review at the beginning of club meetings and am looking for thoughts or advice on how to get good feedback from this. The basic idea would be that those entering would bring enough beer so everyone gets a sample, bottles would be marked anonymously, and interested members would be given review sheets to rate/review each beer.  The idea is to get more than the usual "that's good" that we often get from face to face tasting, but I want to make sure it is useful and fun for those entering beer (and everybody else too).

Any thoughts on this?

dbeechum:
We typically do this when we're doing "choose a recipe to brew" competitions in our club.

The biggest thing I can recommend is appointing someone to manage the entries and a steward or two to pour the entries from pitchers. (To allow keg entries as well and not have them stand out as different.)

bluesman:
Great idea Jim!

We should make an attempt at this for our next meeting. If the beer falls under a specific category we should label it as such. If there are special ingredients they can be listed as well. Maybe a checklist scoresheet format with a comments section for efficieny purposes. This would give some level of feedback to the brewer and could be fun.

We can discuss further at The Battle of the Brews on Saturday.

mtnrockhopper:
I was thinking of doing this at our first meeting back at dogfish, only because the summer meetings are so unstructured and people show up at all different times. But... I don't see why we couldn't make it happen in August. We'd just tell people that they have to be there at a specific time to participate. I was thinking of having people sign up ahead and limiting the tasting to 5 beers, so we're not overwhelmed - at least for the first month. Tell them to bring a minimum of 4 12oz bottles or equivalent. They'd have to show up early and bring a 'Brewer's Statement' which would let tasters know their intentions. Actually, I'd ask for the brewers statement when they sign up so I can have pre-printed review sheets.  Are you going to DUH in August Ron?

bluesman:

--- Quote from: mtnrockhopper on July 27, 2011, 10:24:06 am ---I was thinking of doing this at our first meeting back at dogfish, only because the summer meetings are so unstructured and people show up at all different times. But... I don't see why we couldn't make it happen in August. We'd just tell people that they have to be there at a specific time to participate. I was thinking of having people sign up ahead and limiting the tasting to 5 beers, so we're not overwhelmed - at least for the first month. Tell them to bring a minimum of 4 12oz bottles or equivalent. They'd have to show up early and bring a 'Brewer's Statement' which would let tasters know their intentions. Actually, I'd ask for the brewers statement when they sign up so I can have pre-printed review sheets.  Are you going to DUH in August Ron?
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I'll make every effort to be at the August meeting. I agree that Dogfish Brewpub would be a better place to start this but I'm okay with it either way.

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