It's finally time for the second annual Spring Beer Tourney. Here, this years batch of Spring Beers are pitted head to head until one champion remains. Last year the very good Dominion Spring Buck was the winner, and of course they stopped making it. They do have a new Spring Bock this year that will get a high seed. Seeding is based on last years beer and with the case of new stuff, if it looks good. This year some attempt has been made to organize the brackets by style. Thus we have Farm, Hops and Reds, with some farmhouse ale, some hop heavy offerings and a bunch of Irish Reds. The other bracket is Bocks Plus, which is almost all bocks with a couple other beers similar in style thrown in. Well here we go.
Farm, Hops and Reds
- Flying Dog Garde Dog
- Sam Adam's Irish Red
- Sam Adam's Noble Pils
- Harpoon Red
- Red Hook Mudslinger
- Lagunitas Hairy Eye Ball
- Founder's Double Trouble
- Saranac Red
- Dundee Red
- Troeg's Nugget Nectar
Bocks Plus
- Anchor Bock
- Dominion Big Thaw Bock
- Gordon Biersch Maibock
- Magic Hat Vinyl
- Breckenridge Pandora's Bock
- Yuengling Bock
- Sierra Nevada Glissade
- Blue Moon Spring Blonde Wheat Ale
- Shiner Dortmunder
- Abita Mardi Gras Bock
There we go twenty beers enter one beer leaves. The first six seeds get a by so basically # 7 vs # 10 and # 8 vs # 9 are sort of like play in games. With the lowest seed remaining facing the # 1 seed and the highest facing the # 2 seed. So the first four matches are Founder's DT vs Troeg's Nugget Nectar, Saranac Red vs Dundee Red, SN Glissade vs Abita Bock and Blue Moon Spring vs Shiner Dortmunder. See how I got the styles to go up against each other this year.
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