One link, one paragraph #29

The link. The paragraph: “When I started judging at the World Beer Cup and European Beer Star, the judges were brewers, plus self-taught judges, so most had an idea of balance and pleasantness,” (Agostino Arioli) says. “Nowadays the judges are all about the BJCP [Beer Judge Certification Program], and some of them don’t even know what pleasantness is. All they know is which one sticks better to the standard.”