I can neither confirm nor deny it. What I can deny is that the BJCP guidelines are used for the GABF. They have categories in that competition that aren't in the BJCP homebrew competition guidelines.
I believe you're splitting hairs, but I'll go along with the very narrow thing you're saying here: yes, that's true.
Hey, if I *really* wanted to split hairs I'd object to Papazian and the GABF being brought in as surrogates for the BJCP. They're different animals. (Though now at least for homebrew competitions they share a set of guidelines, historically they didn't, and the BJCP as an organization was formed in part to get away from the AHA.)
"The green caps are the Blond, that hasn't existed for
10 years"I've stocked green cap WV for three years. It definitely exists - I'm looking at it right now.
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I agree my English isn't that good, but I definitely wrote "...for 10 years YET". The first blonde came on in 1999. Wasted electrons. Joris
This is correct. There's a rare write-up on Westvleteren in the latest issue of the Celebrator beer news (apr-may). According to the article, the beer is sold only at the abbey gate (cases) and the abbey owned cafe across the road (singles and sixers). There's a 3-5 case limit per car at the gate as the monks know the stuff would be bought up in mass and marketed greedily. As it is, they are very much against anyone sending any of it to the US because the know the enormous profits that can be obtained ($20 btl) and they consider this immoral. But, the monks refuse to up production, brewing only enough to meet their financial needs. As it is, they brew so little (70 days per yr) they only sell it occasionally, typically running out of the latest batch in 2-3 days. This to customers who wait in line for hours after driving the monestary nuts with calls inquiring about the next release. The other reason for the small output is the monks do ALL the brewing themselves and they don't want the brewing cutting into their whatever-monks-do time.
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