Judging Process
The guidelines for our respectful judges
Judging needs its experts!
Judging panels are responsibility of the Head Judge. The judges follow the ABA standards. To judge your samples in the right way, it is important to submit it in the proper category and fill the details for your beer (bottle conditioned, haze, unfiltered, unpasteurized).
The main philosophy of the competition is to award beers for their complexity in aroma and taste. Beers with off-flavours or negative impression, loose points. The last element to look at is “fit-to-style”.
Every sample is evaluated by each judge, who is adding notes and points for every evaluation part on the form. The feedback is sent anonymously to you, without name and points, after the awards evening. If anything negative comes to judges attention, the judge’s table can ask for a second sample from this beer. In possible equal scores, judges may taste the beers again to judge which of them will get the lead.
The above decisions are made only by the Head Judge, who is also responsible for the samples classification and flights as well as the judges panel. The Head Judge is not participating at the tasting and has the obligation to remind the philosophy of the competition to the judges. Greek Beer Awards invites judges from abroad in order to ensure the integrity and transparency of the tasting process and the outcome. The organization in agreement with the head judge reserves the right to merge categories.
Categories
1. Lagers
1.1 Pale Lager
1.2 Red/Amber Lager
1.3 Dark Lager
1.4 Pils/Pilsener
1.5 Specialty Lager
2. Ales
2.1 Pale Ale
2.2 Red Ale
2.3 Amber Ale
2.4 Brown Ale
2.5 Dark Ale
2.6 India Pale Ale
2.7 Stout & Porter
2.8 German Weiss
2.9 Wheat Beer (American Wheat, Belgian Wit etc)
2.10 Barrel Aged
2.11 Saison
2.12 Specialty Ale
3. No/LOW Alcohol & Radlers
3.1 Low Alcohol (>1,2%)
3.2 No Alcohol (>0,05%)
3.3 Lemon Radler
3.4 Other Radler
The top rated aLE
THE top rated Lager
Score 91-100
Score 81-90
SCORE 71-80
Leading the process
The head of judges
The head judge is a well respected and experienced person, chosen by the organizers to fulfill the following responsibilities:
