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Message: [QUOTE="storrsroars, post: 2854459, member: 2500"] I'm not going to say anything negative about any of the award winners. What I will say is that I've been a certified sensory judge at multiple competitions. The "best" is subjective and the best doesn't always win. And sometimes the best isn't even the product you and I can buy. [URL='https://bensbeerblog.com/2016/03/21/lets-talk-about-beer-awards/']I'd suggest reading this article regarding awards.[/URL] It pertains to pretty much all "juried" beer, wine, coffee, pizza, bbq sauce competitions - or pretty much whatever food you can think of where there are "awards". In the coffee business, it was well known that competitions were a game that had little relation to real world happenings. But most "serious" shops & roasters - including mine - entered to get that marketing buzz. And in Pittsburgh, nobody had even heard of a coffee competition, let alone won one. So we suddenly became the "it" shop. And stayed there for a couple of years. Let's also remember that most of the entrants are probably pretty good anyway. But you do get the occasional Fred Franzia (Two-Buck Chuck) types winning hardware now and again. And that's where the following the often arcane and esoteric rules for entry to the letter comes in handy. It's not uncommon for some detail that wouldn't matter to you or me matters to the judges and competition - and gets decent product disqualified. [/QUOTE]