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Sorry for the long post!
I made an English bitter for this which I entered into this comp. I Packaged two bottles especially and kegged the rest. I was so pleased to find my bitter got 3rd place and I hadn’t even tasted it myself! Anyway, last Friday I put the keg on in the afternoon looking forward to eventually trying it. However, I went to grab a pint later that evening to find the beer line had somehow popped out and found the whole keg over the floor of my bar, and an empty CO2 tank 😡
Long story short, I thought I’d wait until I had the judges comments before making another batch in order to take it on board and hope to improve the recipe. As said in a few posts above, this would have been no good at all with the tick box score sheets. Fortunately for me, one of the two judges had used a conventional (if that’s the word) score sheet for mine and I think I’ve been so lucky to get what I think is some very helpful feedback and advice on how I can improve my recipe.

So, another shout out from me for old score sheets please.
 
I got some good feedback written into mine. I would have scored a lot higher (not that I got a bad score at all!) if I had entered the beer into a different category. Basically it was 'Great tasting beer, think it would have done better in X category' I was dithering between two different ones and I chose the wrong one. 🤣 I'm happy with that, and next time I know!
 
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