The Battle of the Breweries – 2024

Lets get this thing started! Its time to RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMMBLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

The 2024 Battle of the Breweries is officially kicking off —– NOW — with the preliminary qualifiers. Each of the four conferences: Bravo, Crystal, Fuggle, and Galaxy, are hosting a single fatal four-way “win and you’re in” match. These are sixteen breweries that we have not been to yet, and will be traveling to and visiting in 2024 (or at the latest – early 2025). The winner of each of the four fatal four-ways will be added as the 32nd seed to their respective conference. (ie. winner of the Bravo fatal four way will become the 32nd seed in the Bravo conference, etc.)

The Battle of the Breweries (2024) is set up with four conferences of 32 (counting the “win and you’re in” brewery) for a total of 128 breweries in the main tournament (140 participating breweries in total). They will compete in single elimination rounds (Best of 32, Best of 16, Best of 8, Final Four, Finals) for each conference, before each conference will send their winner to the “Finals Fatal Four-Way” to determine the winner of this year’s Battle of the Breweries.

Breweries will be competing from Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, Arizona, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia.

You can see our previous topics about the tournament for this year here:

• The Battle of the Breweries (2024)
• The Battle of the Breweries (2024): Participating Breweries

We encourage you to go onto social media and share this post, as well as to follow our Facebook, Instagram, and other pages to stay up to date on the tournament. You can vote once per day for each conference’s blocks (once we’re in the main tournament, each conference will have their own distinct article). So to better your favorite (or your own personal) brewery’s chances of winning – we highly recommend sharing and letting all of your friends and family (and even your enemies) know to vote for you.

You can follow along with us on Facebook and Instagram.

The Rules

There’s gotta be some kind of rules to this madness right? This madness of March (and well, this year the end of February as well… and yes… also a bit of April as the tournament goes into that month as well). So… what are the rules involved?

To pull straight from the initial March Madness / Battle of the Breweries post:

So how’s this going to work? Who all is invited? What all breweries are going to be in it? How many breweries? How’s voting going to work? Who decides whose in and whose out? Whats the seeding? Why is Rick such a jerk to Morty? Why is Jurassic Bark the saddest episode of Futurama ever?  Why is the sky blue?

Ok…. enough with the questions!

March Madness (2021) – The Battle of the Breweries (2021)

Breweries are selected from breweries that have been visited by The Beer Thrillers staff.

Voting Rules

Each day you will be able to come to the site to make your votes in the polls. It will be set-up by IPS, so it limits you to voting just once per day per vote. You can vote as many times as you want per round, but only once per day.

Rounds will be one week (ending on Sunday nights at 11:59:59 PM EST) and the new week of voting starting up the next day (Monday) when I get the articles posted (usually around 8:30 – 9:30 AM EST).

Voting will typically be a week long, but the scheduling might be a bit in-flux, stay tuned to the follow up Preliminary Qualifiers post, which will spell out the scheduling a bit better. I prefer to have the rounds last Monday – Sunday for ease. The preliminary qualifiers will end on Thursday (February 29th), and  the tournament will start on a Friday (March 1st). So most likely the opening round will just have a few extra days of voting.

Schedule of Rounds

• Preliminary Qualifiers: February 26th – February 29th
• Round of 32: March 1st – March 10th
• Round of 16: March 11th – March 17th
• Round of 8: March 18th – March 24th
• Round of 4: March 25th – March 31st
• Conference Finals: April 1st – 7th
• Finals Fatal Four-Way: April 8th – April 14th

VOTE HERE

Lets do this! Enough with the fine print, and the rules, and the boring stuff. Lets get to voting! Here you go, here’s where you get to vote for the Preliminary Qualifiers. The fatal four-way “Win And You’re In” match-ups. There are four fatal four-ways, one for each conference. You may only pick one brewery from each fatal four-way.

Good luck to your favorite breweries in the tournament! Share and tell your friends to help your favorite breweries get more votes!

Participating Breweries

This is the list of all 140 breweries that will be participating in the Battle of the Breweries (2024). This list is in no particular order, and is not set for their conferences. We will be rolling D4’s (four sided dice) to determine which of the conferences the breweries will be placed in. Once they are placed in their conferences, they are seeded by overall Untappd rating.

First up Is the Preliminary Breweries

These sixteen breweries will be paired up in groups of four to face off in fatal fourways to determine the final (32nd) seed in each conference. These breweries include:

Bravo Conference:

1. Pilger Ruh Brewing
2. Vortex Brewing
3. Sunset Hill Brewing Company
4. Brew Gentlemen

Crystal Conference:

1. Second Sin Brewing
2. BierHall Brewery
3. BruDaddy’s Brewing Company
4. Retriever Brewing

Fuggle Conference:

1. Gift Horse Brewing Company
2. Rising River Brewing Company
3. RAK Brewing
4. Neshaminy Creek Brewing Company

Galaxy Conference:

1. Great Barn Brewing
2. Wallenpaupack Brewing
3. Stone Silo Brewing Company
4. Lost Tavern Brewing

The Main Tournament Competitors

(Update – Check back later tomorrow when we have the dice rolled to determine which breweries are in which conferences. The seeding will be determined via Untappd ratings.)

The main tournament will have 31 breweries in each conference, plus the brewery that wins the preliminary round for their conference. This list is not in order of seeding or in which conference they will participate in.

1. Boneshire Brew Works
2. YAH Brew
3. Other Half Brewing Company
4. Adroit Theory
5. Funk Brewing
6. Mad Chef Brewing
7. LoveDraft’s Brewing Company
8. Collusion Tap Works
9. Snitz Creek Brewing Company
10. Voodoo Brewing Company
11. Lost Rhino Brewing
12. Big Truck Farm Brewing
13. Jackass Brewery
14. Brewery Fire
15. Juniata Brewing Company
16. Wolf Brewing
17. Pizza Boy Brewing Company
18. Appalachian Brewing Company
19. Old Ox Brewery
20. Dewey Beer
21. Levante Brewing
22. Strange Roots Brewing Company
23. Cape May Brewing
24. Southern Tier Brewing Company
25. Human Robot Beer
26. Antifragile Brewing
27. Warwick Farm Brewing
28. New Trail Brewing Company
29. Fourscore Beer Company
30. AleCraft Brewery
31. Robin Hood Brewing
32. Sworn Brewing Company
33. Fat Bat Brewing Company
34. RAR Brewing
35. Black Forest Brewing
36. Desperate Times Brewery
37. Troegs Independent Brewing
38. ZeroDay Brewing
39. Von C Brewing Company
40. Hitchhiker Brewing Company
41. Yellow Bridge Brewing
42. Victory Brewing Company
43. Bullfrog Brewery
44. Bunnyman Brewing
45. Elder Pine Brewing and Blending
46. Shy Bear Brewing
47. Allusion Brewing Company
48. Mellow Mink Brewing
49. South County Brewing Company
50. Black Flag Brewing Company
51. Chubby Squirrel Brewing Company
52. Ever Grain Brewing Company
53. Cushwa Brewing
54. Pineknotter Brewing
55. Forbes Trail Brewing
56. Burley Oak Brewery
57. Dogfish Head Craft Brewery
58. Sly Fox Brewing Company
59. Harpers Ferry Brewing Company
60. Valhalla Brewing
61. Rusty Rail Brewing Company
62. White Elephant Brewing Company
63. Tombstone Brewing Company
64. Hackensack Brewing Company
65. Acclamation Brewing
66. Dancing Gnome Brewing
67. Vanish Farmwoods Brewing
68. Bright Path Brewing
69. Capitol City Brewing
70. Bolero Snort Brewing Company
71. Breaker Brewing
72. Sapwood Cellars
73. Rough Edges Brewing
74. Little Fish Brewing Company
75. Schaylor Brewing
76. Otto’s Brewpub
77. Attaboy Beer
78. Brix City Brewing Company
79. Willow Creek Brewing Company
80. Ten Eyck Brewing
81. Imprint Beer
82. Bog Turtle Brewery
83. Loakal Branch Brewing
84. Aslin Beer
85. Burnish Brewing
86. Jailbreak Brewing
87. Susquehanna Brewing Company
88. Jackie O’s Brewery
89. Sun King Brewery
90. Idiom Brewing
91. Noble Beast Brewing
92. Lydian Stone Brewing
93. Liquid Hero Brewing
94. Covered Bridge Brewhaus
95. Free Will Brewing
96. Gunpowder Falls Brewing
97. Tall Tales Brewing
98. Mustang Sally Brewing Company
99. Hemauer Brewing
100. Ocelot Brewing
101. Benny Brewing
102. Our Town Brewery
103. Gearhouse Brewing
104. Urban Artifact
105. Land-Grant Brewing Company
106. Levity Brewing
107. Pour Man’s Brewing
108. Logyard Brewing
109. Abjuration Brewing
110. Bespoke Brewing
111. Canton Brewing Company
112. Punch Buggy Brewing
113. Crooked Run Fermentation
114. Axemann Brewery
115. Gusto Brewing
116. Tired Hands Fermentaria
117. Hell in a Bucket Brewing
118. Morgantown Brewing Company
119. Braxton Brewing Company
120. Wolf’s Ridge Brewing
121. Ministry of Brewing
122. Stumbling Monkey Brewing
123. Liquid Noise Brewing Company
124. Abolitionist Ale Works

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