
Passed the Cider Entrance Exam
12/09/2019
Yesterday, after about three weeks of focused study, I passed the BJCP Cider Entrance Exam, a prerequisite to take the Cider Judging Exam. This whole process is to gain an endorsement from the BJCP that I am competent to evaluate ciders. While there is some similarity between beer and cider evaluation, there is perhaps more commonality with wine evaluation. Or at least its a melding of the two.
Because the BJCP cider endorsement program is so new, there are less than two dozen judges in