Well, since you mention chocolate porter I have a funny story to tell and, it is a total slam on all of you BJCP judges out there that think you can judge beer. In 2008 we made a stout for the beer comp. at the Iowa state fair. It was a bit weak so we entered it as a porter. It scored 39 (so it was not gold, got silver) but, it scored 1st in the porter category. Therefore, it went to 2nd round and, we got Best Of Show. We were shocked. The following year we made that exact same beer and entered it again. We thought it would be a lock for BOS. In addition, just to experiment and see what would happen, we added a few drops of fake ass chocolate extract to that porter and entered it in the specialty beer category as a chocolate porter. The chocolate porter scored 40 and got first. The same exact beer without fake ass chocolate drops scored 29 points and got 5th. We filled the bottles side by side with a Beer Gun. So, the 2008 best of show porter sucked balls but with a few drops of fake ass chocolate it got first and did well in the second round. That should tell you something about beer judges. Now days, Jeff and I enter 2 of the same exact beers and just laugh our asses off at how differently the same beer is judged. The moral of the story is.....Don't get down if some BJCP judge gives you a bad score. Most of them are very inexperienced and very subjective at best. They will get on here and tell you how smart they are but, it's all fake. Just like my chocolate porter.