And So It’s Accomplished…
And with that, we have now our first (hopefully annual) battle of the beer champion. This was a month lengthy, knock out, drag out combat. With the finals seeing a David vs. Goliath battle. A small time, one 12 months previous brewery with their plucky upstart ‘Strolling on Clouds’ taking up an web darling, a colossal brewery, a behemoth, a tyrannical monster…. Pseudo Sue.
Who walked away the victor?
…..Not but…. (until you simply scroll right down to see.)
First Issues First
Let’s have a look again at how we bought right here:
The Opponents
Who all was concerned on this event (in case you are simply tuning in – or need a recap):
Under is a straight checklist of the 32 breweries with their flagship beers, with their Untappd score, and the order they’re ranked within the event:
- The Alchemist – Headdy Topper (4.54)
- Tree Home – Inexperienced (4.43)
- Lawson’s Best Liquids – Sip of Sunshine (4.33)
- Toppling Goliath – Pseudo Sue (4.13)
- New Holland – Dragon’s Milk (4.06)
- Dewey Beer – Swishy Pants (4.05)
- Omnegang – Three Philosophers (3.95)
- Bell’s Brewery – Two Hearted Ale (3.95)
- Von C Brewing – Strolling on Clouds (3.94)
- Cigar Metropolis – Jai Alai (3.93)
- Rubber Soul – Dropout (3.92)
- Pizza Boy – Murren River (3.91)
- Deschutes – Contemporary Squeezed (3.91)
- Rotunda Brewing – Annville IPA (3.9)
- Hemauer Brewing – Fortunate Lobster (3.89)
- Dogfish Head – 60 Minute (3.85)
- Boneshire Brew Works – Inexperienced Machine (3.8)
- Troegs Impartial Craft Brewing – Perpetual IPA (3.8)
- RAR Brewing – Nanticoke Nectar (3.8)
- Bunnyman Brewing – Pink Nightmare (3.78)
- Victory – Golden Monkey (3.75)
- Laguinitas – IPA (3.72)
- Tattered Flag – TMI PA (3.71)
- Rogue – Lifeless Man Ale (3.71)
- Founder’s – All Day IPA (3.7)
- Zero-Day Brewing – Mango Habanero (3.69)
- Snitz Creek Brewery – Blueberry Cream Ale (3.68)
- Sierra Nevada – Pale Ale (3.63)
- Moo – Duck Brewery – Hoppy Toad IPA (3.58)
- New Belgium – Fats Tire (3.58)
- Yuengling – Lager (3.49)
- Newcastle – Brown Ale (3.39)
The Choice Course of
The choice course of was principally arbitrary (welcome to the world of The Beer Thrillers). Usually, there have been just a few easy guidelines I adopted:
- It needed to be a beer I’ve had earlier than
- It needed to have not less than a 3 star score on Untappd
- I attempted to select some well-known – nation vast distributed beers, some native breweries (native to us right here at The Beer Thrillers), and some “excessive finish” / “top quality” / “prime of the road” brewery flagships.
That is clearly not a listing of beers primarily based on any form of science. That is purely meant for enjoyable and simply to have an excellent time. Please go away all emotions and egos on the door.
Last Two Opponents
The ultimate two opponents noticed Toppling Goliath’s Pseudo Sue tackle Von C Brewing’s Strolling on Clouds. This was actually an epic present down, particularly going into the final day the place it turned an all out brawl, with the complete followship of each breweries getting concerned. The votes and the stats jumped yesterday, going into the late night hours till midnight (EST) when the voting ended.
Let’s take a more in-depth take a look at each:
Toppling Goliath – Pseudo Sue
Toppling Goliath’s Pseudo Sue entered the event ranked #4 out of 32 with an total (on the day of the event’s begin) Untappd score of 4.13.
Pseudo Sue:
Type: Pale Ale – American
ABV: 5.8%
IBU: 45
Untappd Description: This Citra hop pale ale is delicate in physique with a light bitterness within the end. Ferocious hop aromas of citrus and mango give a refreshing style that’s brilliant with simply sufficient chew!
Present Untappd Rating (7.29.22): 4.13
Complete Rankings: 206,890
Toppling Goliath:
Toppling Goliath Brewing Firm is a regional brewery from Decorah Iowa. They’ve 109 distinctive beers (in line with Untappd) with a world common score of 4.15 (as of seven.29.22). They’ve over 1 million rankings. Their Untappd description reads: Named 2021 US Beer Open Grand Nationwide Champions. Based in 2009 in stunning Decorah, Iowa. World-renown for IPAs and barrel-aged stouts, distributing to over 30 states and brewing greater than 35 beers. TG prides it’s-self in crafting actually top-shelf beer and is honored to be rising with the assist of its many purchasers worldwide.
Von C Brewing – Strolling on Clouds
Von C Brewing’s Strolling on Clouds entered the event ranked #9 out of 32 with an total (on the day of the event’s begin) Untappd score of three.94.
Strolling on Clouds:
Type: IPA – New England / Hazy
ABV: 7%
IBU: None
Untappd Description: A juicy Hazy NEIPA bursting with a mosaic of flavors together with peach, passionfruit and citrus, with a beautiful mango end.
Present Untappd Score (as of seven.29.22): 3.94
Complete Rankings: 1,708
Von C Brewing
Von C Brewing is a micro brewery from Norristown, Pennsylvania. They’ve 44 distinctive beers (in line with Untappd) and have a world common score of three.79 (as of seven.29.22). Their Untappd description reads: Von C Brewing Co. is a 20 barrel 16,000 sq’ microbrewery with a 2,500 sq’ tasting room together with a spacious outdoors beer backyard in stunning Norristown, PA, the center of Montgomery County.
Previous Battle of the Beers Articles
How did we get to the Finals:
Okay… Sufficient Already
Okay, let’s get to it…. begin the drum roll…. let’s announce our First Annual Battle of the Beers Champion!
The 2022 Battle of the Beers Inaugural Champion Is…..
Coming in with a whopping 810 votes to be the primary Battle of the Beers champion is….. Toppling Goliath’s Pseudo Sue!
They had been the quantity 4 seed (out of 32) coming into the matchup. They defeated Von C Brewing’s Strolling on Clouds 810 to 642.
It was an incredible battle by each breweries and admittedly they each need to win. Each are improbable superb beers. It was a powerful, exhausting fought battle, and the competitors was nice, the breweries had been nice, and everybody following alongside was nice!
Wrap It Up
Let’s wrap this up.
This text would have been up sooner, however I donated blood at this time at 7:30AM and had errands to run. Amy and I are doing a 3 day journey of Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Canton, so packing and getting issues prepared has been a precedence as properly.
I totally intend to do a much bigger article discussing the complete event and Pseudo Sue’s massive win. We’ll crunch the numbers and run the tales and provides everybody an enormous write up on it.
However firstly, let me simply say thanks to everybody concerned and who voted. An enormous spherical of applause for the breweries and the beers, particularly the winner – Pseudo Sue – in addition to the runner up – Strolling on Clouds. Each are superb beers, strive your damnedest to get on the market and check out them. You gained’t be disenchanted with both – nor will you be with both brewery.
Thank You For Studying
As I mentioned, Amy and I are occurring a 3 – day journey at this time. I’ll have an article up shortly discussing the complete itinerary and what all we’re gonna do. However its going to be an incredible enjoyable journey! (We’ll be in Pittsburgh, Canton for the NFL Soccer Corridor of Fame, Cleveland for the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame, and a Guardians – Astros sport). After which we’ll be popping in Pittsburgh once more on the way in which again by means of. So don’t fear – there might be loads of nice breweries that we are going to be hitting up, I can promise you all that!
Thanks for studying! Sorry this was a bit late, and a faster learn, this morning has been kicking my ass, between making an attempt to prepare, donating blood, solely getting three hours of sleep, mowing, and a slew of different actions (like my daughter Mara getting her again to highschool stuff), and so forth.
Thanks For studying!
Cheers All!
-B. Kline
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