{"id":9287,"date":"2012-07-23T06:34:59","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T12:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=9287"},"modified":"2020-07-21T13:11:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T19:11:37","slug":"lets-talk-goryczka-bitterness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/lets-talk-goryczka-bitterness\/","title":{"rendered":"Let’s talk goryczka (bitterness)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Polish<\/p>\n

Quick disclaimer: This post won’t be an in-depth discussion about bitterness itself, IBU, quality of bitterness or something similar. I just wanted to use goryczka<\/em> in a headline. Instead, this is a copy of the beer competition scoresheet used by the Polish Homebrewers Association. It is similar to a Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP) scoresheet<\/a>, but the differences are interesting. <\/p>\n

Obviously it is in Polish. Because they are good hosts, the Polish homebrewers also provided an English version for English-speaking judges (or German speakers who also spoke English, etc.) last month during the X-th Konkurs Piw Domowych<\/a> (National Homebrew Competition) held at the Zywiec Brewery. <\/p>\n

Should you not want to toggle back and forth between the two, here’s how they compare:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\nBJCP  <\/td>\nPolish<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aroma\/Aromat<\/td>\n12<\/td>\n12<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Appearance\/-  <\/td>\n3<\/td>\n–<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Color\/Barwa<\/td>\n–<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Foam\/Plana<\/td>\n–<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Flavor\/Smak<\/td>\n20<\/td>\n17<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mouthfeel\/Odcsucie w ustach  <\/td>\n5<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bitterness\/Goryczka<\/td>\n–<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Overall\/Ogólne wraženie<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n–<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Both scoresheets list (on the left) possible flaws, but on the BJCP sheet judges simply check the boxes when those are present while in Poland they rate the intensity.<\/p>\n

The key additions in Poland are foam (color, structure, quality, meaning volume, stability and cling) and bitterness (the intensity and quality of the bitterness). <\/p>\n

For the record, like style guidelines these scoresheets are designed for beer competitions, not real life. Taking them outside that environment can lead to long, meaningless arguments<\/del> discussions. However the influence of the BJCP sheet on the scoring matrix at RateBeer<\/a> (Aroma 10, Appearance 5, Taste 10, Palate 5, Overall 20) should be obvious and the cultural impact of beer rating sites internationally cannot be understated.<\/p>\n

They’ve got at least a few people talking about beer in a way they weren’t before. Personally, I like foam and I like bitterness. I’d be happy to see them be part of the conversation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quick disclaimer: This post won’t be an in-depth discussion about bitterness itself, IBU, quality of bitterness or something similar. I just wanted to use goryczka in a headline. Instead, this is a copy of the beer competition scoresheet used by the Polish Homebrewers Association. It is similar to a Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP) scoresheet, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-2pN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9287"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15970,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9287\/revisions\/15970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}