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Beer Judge Certification Program
The purpose of the Beer Judge Certification Program is to:
- Encourage knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of the world's diverse beer, mead, and cider styles;
- Promote, recognize, and advance beer, mead, and cider tasting, evaluation, and communication skills; and
- Develop standardized tools, methods, and processes for the structured evaluation, ranking and feedback of beer, mead, and cider.
We certify and rank beer judges through an examination and monitoring process, sanction competitions, and provide educational resources for current and future judges.
The BJCP was founded in 1985 and has administered the Beer Judge Examination to 9,329 individuals worldwide. 5,750 are currently active judges in the program, with 807 holding the rank of National or higher. Since we started keeping detailed records, our members have judged over 1,120,059 beers and we have sanctioned over 6,924 competitions.
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Our seven elected reps are always available to respond to your questions or concerns. If you don't know which region you're in, go to the Officers page, where you'll even find a map. Use these links to send your rep an email.
- Northeast — [email protected]
- Mid-Atlantic — [email protected]
- South — [email protected]
- Midwest — [email protected]
- North — [email protected]
- Mountain/Northwest — [email protected]
- West — [email protected]
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Competition Questions
Questions about the Sanctioned Competition Program
Competition Director — [email protected]
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BJCP Exam Questions
We have phased out the East/West distinction with Exam Directors. Use the following alias to contact all three of them.
Exam Directors — [email protected]
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CEP Questions
Need to ask about setting up a Continuing Education Program session?
CEP Director — [email protected]
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Style Guideline Questions
See the Style Guidelines FAQ if you want to suggest new styles for a future edition of the guidelines or report errors in the existing guidelines.
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General Questions
Press inquiries, copyright permissions, or forum issues
Communication Director — [email protected]
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Webmaster — [email protected]
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