Euroclash Homebrew Competition and Valley Brewer, Greater Wellington
Train for the BJCP exams
Two exams, two different skills. The online Entrance Exam tests what you know: 180 questions in 60 minutes, open book, pass at 116. The in-person Judging Exam tests what you can do: 6 beers, 15 minutes each, closed book. This programme trains both, at your own pace and with the club.
What is in it
22 units
The workbook, unit by unit
Foundations, ingredients and process, and off-flavours. Each unit ends in a self-check you answer before you look anything up.
98 entries
Every style, by family
What defines each one, how to judge it, and what it gets confused with. Grouped so the styles you mix up sit next to each other.
180 questions
Original practice bank
Across the ten Entrance Exam subject areas, with the reasoning after every answer, plus timed sets at the real exam's pace.
Facilitated
Tasting with other palates
Fault workshops, style flights, and a mock Judging Exam against a proctor consensus. In person, or by webinar if you cannot get there.
One course
The knowledge at your own pace, the craft with the club
BJCP Judge Prep · Self-paced · four sessions with the club
One path through both BJCP exams: the knowledge the online Entrance Exam tests, worked at your own pace, then the craft the in-person Judging Exam tests, calibrated in four sessions with the club. Perception and description cannot be calibrated against your own palate, which is what the sessions are for.
Who can join
Anyone preparing for a BJCP exam. Register with your email and an admin approves you; if the club invited you, you are in straight away. Club membership is not needed. The club confirms exam candidates later, once the prep course, the in-person sessions and the mock exam are done.
What this is, and is not — including why the BJCP's own guidelines are linked rather than reproduced.