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Written by Mark Emiley   
Friday, 18 July 2008 07:53

A way to get up to practice up on your tasting is to "calibrate" yourself with commercial beers.  Zymurgy has a column where 4 highly ranked BJCP judges evaluate commercially available beers under BJCP guidelines.  Reading and drinking along with these reviews can help you understand what you are tasting and also help calibrate your scoring (there are, of course, variations on the particular beers that you and they have in hand). 

You need two things: the Zymurgy articles in question and the beers.  To help with the first half of this, we've listed out the beers which were reviewed and which edition they were published in.

AHA Members can find the reviews online here.

Last Update: April 2012 (encourage the person responsible for updating this by sending a message here)

Year # Name Cat
2004 4 Sierra Nevada Pale Ale 10A
2004 4 Anchor Steam 7B
2004 5 Mountain Meadows Sierra Nectar Wildflower Mead 24B
2004 5 White Oak Cider 27B
2004 6 Victory Hop Devil Ale 14B
2004 6 Rogue Brutal Bitter 10A
2005 1 Celis White 16A
2005 1 New Belgium Abbey 18B
2005 2 Wolaver's Brown Ale 11C
2005 2 Wild Salmon Organic Pale Ale - Fish Brewing Co. 10A
2005 3 Alaskan Amber 7A
2005 3 Indian Brown Ale - Dogfish Head 23
2005 4 None #N/A
2005 4 None #N/A
2005 5 Samuel Adams Boston Lager 2B
2005 5 Shakespeare Stout - Rogue 13E
2005 6 None #N/A
2005 6 None #N/A
2006 1 Redhook Winterhook 19A
2006 1 Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale 14B
2006 2 Red Seal Ale - North Coast Brewing Co. 10B
2006 2 BridgePort ESB 8C
2006 3 Flying Dog In-Heat Wheat 15A
2006 3 Black Butte Porter - Deschutes Brewery 12A
2006 4 1997 Alaskan Smoked Porter 22B
2006 4 2005 Alaskan Smoked Porter 22B
2006 5 Saint Arnold Fancy Lawnmower Beer 6C
2006 5 Snake River Vienna Style Lager 3A
2006 6 Magic Hat #9 20
2006 6 Dogfish Head Punkin Ale 21A
2007 1 Curmudgeon's Nip - Odell Brewing Co. 19A
2007 1 Allagash Dubbel 18B
2007 2 Juniper Mountain Honey Wine - Redstone Meadery 26A
2007 2 Apple Cyser - Rabbit's Foot Meadery 25A
2007 3 Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout - Great Divide Brewing Co. 22C
2007 3 471 Double Hopped IPA - Breckenridge Brewery 14C
2007 4 Terrapin Rye Pale Ale 23
2007 4 Barney Flats Oatmeal Stout - Anderson Valley Brewing Co. 13C
2007 5 Gordon Biersch Marzen 3B
2007 5 Victory Golden Monkey 18C
2007 6 Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald Porter 12B
2007 6 Stone Russian Imperial Stout 13F
2008 1 Harpoon Winter Warmer 21B
2008 1 Pyramid Snow Cap 19A
2008 2 Stoudt's Gold Lager 1D
2008 2 Sprecher Black Bavarian 4C
2008 3 Kilgubbin Red Ale - Goose Island Beer Company 9D
2008 3 Trogenator Double Bock - Troegs Brewing Company 5C
2008  Long Shot Grape Pale Ale - Boston Beer Company 20 
2008  Long Shot Weizenbock - Boston Beer Company 15C 
2008  Farnum Hill Extra Dry Cider  27B 
2008  West County Reine de Pomme  27C 
2008 Anchor Liberty Ale - Anchor Brewing Co. 14B 
2008  Boulder Planet Porter - Boulder Beer Co. 12B 
2009  Left Hand Brewing Company Milk Stout  13B 
2009  Lagunitas Cappucino Stout  21A 
2009 Oxford Organic Amber Ale  10B 
2009  Wolaver's Oatmeal Stout  13C 
2009  Ommegang Rare Vos  16B 
2009  Jolly Pumpkin Oro de Calabaza  16E 
2009  Nectar Ales Nectar IPA  14B 
2009  Wild Goose IPA  14A 
2009 

Avery Brewing Company Ellie's Brown

10C 
2009  Boulevard Brewing Company Boulevard Wheat  6D 
2009 6 Session Black - Full Sail Brewing Co. 4A
2009 6 Capital Dark - Capital Brewery 4B
2010 1 Lost Abbey Duck Duck Gooze 17E
2010 1 New Belgium La Folie 17B
2010 2 The Bruery - Trade Winds Tripel 21A
2010 2 Elysian Brewing Company - Avatar Jasmine IPA 21A
2010 3 Southampton Double White 23A
2010 3 Rogue Somer Orange Honey Ale 23A
2010 4 New Glarus Cabin Fever Honey Bock 23A
2010 4 Tommyknocker Butt Head Bock 5C
2010 5 Endless Summer Light - Karl Strauss Brewing Co. 1A
2010 5 Bell's Lager - Bell's Brewing Company 1E/2B
2010 6 Hop in the Dark - Deschutes Brewing Company 23A
2010 6 Damnation - Russian River Brewing Company 18D
2011 1 True Blonde - Ska Brewing Co 6B
2011 1 Old Chub - Oskar Blues 9E
2011 2 Green Flash Barleywine 19C
2011 2 Hair of the Dog Doggie Claws 19C
2011 3 Smuttynose Baltic Porter 12C
2011 3 Summit Maibock 5A
2011 4 White Winter Sweet Mead 24C
2011 4 Que Syrah, Syrah - Celestial Meads 25B
2011 5 Colette - Great Divide 16C
2011 5 Domain DuPage - Two Brothers Brewing Co. 16D
2011 6 Beach Haus Classic American Pilsner 2C
2011 6 Left Hand Polestar Pilsner 2A
2012 1 Firestone Walker DBA 8B
2012 1 Upland Kiwi Lambic 17F
2012 2 Moylan's Dragoons Dry Irish Stout 13A
2012 2 Snake River Zonker Stout 13D
2012 3 Pandora's Bock - Breckenridge Brewery 5B
2012 3 Monster Ale - Brooklyn Brewery 19B

 

Last Updated on Sunday, 03 June 2012 16:53
 
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