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Rubber Soul Brewing Supporting and Hosting World Down Syndrome Day

B. Kline — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 12:32:26 +0000

World Down Syndrome Day at Rubber Soul Brewing Company in Hummelstown, PA

World Down Syndrome Day

March 21st is World Down Syndrome Day, and Rubber Soul Brewing Company in Hummelstown is supporting and celebrating the cause. World Down Syndrome Day was started by the World Down Syndrome Day Organization which you can find more information about here: World Down Syndrome Day Organization (Home Page).

From their page:

‘What is Down Syndrome?’

Down syndrome (or Trisomy 21) is a naturally occurring chromosomal arrangement that has always been a part of the human condition, being universally present across racial, gender or socioeconomic lines in approximately 1 in 800 live births, although there is considerable variation worldwide. Down syndrome usually causes varying degrees of intellectual and physical disability and associated medical issues. Learn more at DSi.
World Down Syndrome Day – What is Down Syndrome?

‘What is World Down Syndrome Day?’

World Down Syndrome Day (WDSD) , 21 March, is a global awareness day which has been officially observed by the United Nations since 2012. The date for WDSD being the 21st day of the 3rd month, was selected to signify the uniqueness of the triplication (trisomy) of the 21st chromosome which causes Down syndrome.
World Down Syndrome Day – What is World Down Syndrome Day?

Rubber Soul Brewing Company Supporting World Down Syndrome Day

Rubber Soul Brewing Company Hosts World Down Syndrome Day on 3.21.22 at their Hummelstown PA Brewery

Rubber Soul Brewing Company is hosting World Down Syndrome Day at their brewery in Hummelstown Pennsylvania, all day Monday 3.21.22. From 11AM to 9PM. They have a whole host of things going on for the day, which you can see here (from their Event page):

Join us on Monday, March 21st to celebrate World Down Syndrome Day for the first annual 3.21 FOR LIFE event! 3.21 FOR LIFE is a non-profit organization that was created by a group of individuals in the Hershey/Hummelstown area who have personal connections to individuals with Down syndrome. To help raise awareness and funds, we have brewed DOWN the Hatch IPA and 50% of the proceeds will be donated to 3.21 For Life! You will be able to purchase this beer on March 21st on draft and in 4 packs to-go! Throughout the day we will have games, raffles, and live bands performing. The PA Dairyman’s Milkshake Truck will also be stopping by from 12-4PM! Mark your calendar and we hope to see you there to celebrate all those with down syndrome CAN do!
Live Band Schedule:
11-11:50AM: The Riders
12-12:50PM: Thomas Emond (Tommy B)
1-1:50PM: Joe Cooney & Friends
2-2:50PM: Amber Nadine
3-3:50PM: Mr. Music
4-4:50PM: Dave Gates
5-5:50PM: Jake Mach
6-7:00PM: Hold Fast
For more information, please visit www.321forlife.com
Rubber Soul Brewing Hosts World Down Syndrome Day

You can view their event page here: Rubber Soul Brewing Hosts World Down Syndrome Day (Event Page).

On 3.14.22 Rubber Soul posted on their Facebook page:

Down the Hatch by Rubber Soul Brewing Company

1 WEEK UNTIL WORLD DOWN SYNDROME DAY AND OUR INAUGURAL 3.21 FOR LIFE EVENT! can you tell we are really excited?! because we are REALLY excited. the second batch of pre-order for our DOWN the Hatch IPA is being picked up tonight and it’s our final team meeting to iron out day-of details like our raffle items, games, live bands and more! plan to join us next Monday from 11AM-9PM to help us celebrate all of the amazing individuals with Down syndrome and their DOWN right awesome abilities!
Rubber Soul Brewing Company – Facebook

Down the Hatch

Down the Hatch is a New England style hazy IPA that will be released today on 3.21.22 and is named in honor of the World Down Syndrome Day and in support of Down Syndrome. The beer is fully called – 3.21 Down the Hatch.

You will be able to get it in 4 packs and on draft all day on 3.21, and if any makes it past the day (I am not expecting it to last too long after 3.21). This looks like another high quality New England style IPA from Rubber Soul, which has made some fantastic IPAs in the past with Nimbus, Dropout, their Frosted series, and others.

Rubber Soul Brewing Company

Rubber Soul Brewing Company is located in Hummelstown Pennsylvania along South Hanover Street in what was formerly the police station in town. They have been there just over a year, having originally started in Salsbury Maryland.

For more information on the brewery, you can check out our articles on them:

They were a finalist (made it to the final triple threat face off) in our last year’s Battle of the Breweries. This year, they are currently in Round 3 going up against Crooked Run Fermentation. You can vote for them here:

The Battle of the Breweries – Round 3 Voting

You can find out more information on Rubber Soul here:

Thanks For Reading

Thanks for reading everyone! Hopefully I’ll get to see some of you there tonight. I will be going after work to meet my mom there for dinner and beer. So I probably won’t be getting there til 7PM’ish. My mom helps teach students with disabilities and learning support issues for Lower Dauphin (the school district of Hummelstown and other nearby townships) and is looking forward to getting to support the organization.

Hopefully you all will be able to come out and support and donate as well! See you there!

Cheers!

-B. Kline

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Rubber Soul’s One Year Anniversary Bash

BKline — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 22:55:00 +0000

Rubber Soul is Celebrating Its First Year Anniversary in Hummelstown, Pennsylvania

It’s Time to Celebrate

It’s certainly been a very interesting first year for the (new) Rubber Soul Brewery in Hummelstown, Pennsylvania. Opening amidst a pandemic, and not only just opening – but surviving and thriving in this difficult new environment for restaurants (including a shutdown around Christmas time), this past – and their first – year has certainly had its set of challenges. Its up and downs. Thats for sure.

So its time to celebrate! On October 3rd, at their Hummelstown Brewery – Rubber Soul Brewing Company is throwing their 1st Year Anniversary Bash!

Year One Anniversary Bash

On October 3rd, 2021, from 11AM to 9PM, Rubber Soul is celebrating, and their celebrating big. With live music, new beers on tap, and a loaded brewery. The brewery is located at: 136 S Hanover St, Hummelstown, PA 17036-2207, United States. The event lasts from 11AM to 9PM with the first music act kicking off at 1:30PM, and the beers going on tap at 11AM.

The following is their Facebook Event page listing:

Event by Rubber Soul Brewing136 S Hanover St, Hummelstown, PA 17036-2207, United StatesPublic · Anyone on or off FacebookJoin us as we celebrate YEAR 1 with live music, good beer and good food from 11:00AM-9:00PM! Live music:
1:30-3:00PM – The Faves (https://www.facebook.com/thefavesacousticpa)
3:30-5:00PM – Dave McCullough (https://www.mcculloughmusic.net/)
5:30-7:00PM – Pair of Aces (https://www.facebook.com/AcesDuo)Beer:
We will be releasing three new brews just for the party! Year 1 – India Pale Ale – 7.4%, Anniversary IPA brewed with Citra, Mosaic and Idaho #7. Citrusy, tropical and smooth. Hummelsfest Lager – Festbier – 6.1%
Notes of fresh baked bread and dry earthy undertones pave the way for a toasty clean crisp finish. Perfect for a cool Fall day. House Pumpkin Porter – Spiced Porter – 5.8%
Roasty, bold and smooth with just the right amount of pumpkin puree and pumpkin pie spices. Like taking your first bite of pumpkin pie.Call us at 717-220-1741 or email us at drinkingbuds@rubbersoulbrewing.com to make a reservation! For more information, visit www.rubbersoulbrewing.com/events
One Year Anniversary Bash – Rubber Soul Event Page

Live Music, New Beers, and a Stein

Live Music For the Celebration

The above pictures show you the music line – up for the ‘anniversary shindig’. You have ‘The Faves’ kicking things off at 1:30PM, and then Dave McCullough taking over at 3:30PM, and finally ‘Pair of Aces’ takes “the stage” at 5:30PM.

They are also releasing three beers for the celebration. They are:

Hummelfest – this is a Festbier that released when they first opened and was only available for a little bit of time a year ago. “Notes of fresh baked bread and dry earthy undertones pave the way for a toasty clean crisp finish. Perfect for a cool Fall day.” 6.1%
Year 1 IPA – “Anniversary IPA brewed with Citra, Mosaic and Idaho #7. Citrusy, tropical and smooth.” 7.4%
House Pumpkin Porter – “Roasty, bold and smooth with just the right amount of pumpkin puree and pumpkin pie spices. Like taking your first bite of pumpkin pie.” 5.8%

To go along with the great (and free) music, as well as three new beers on tap, they are releasing a commemorative stein you can purchase at the brewery that gives you a free fill.

The One Year Anniversary Bash commemorative stein

Rubber Soul Brewery will be selling these pretty steins for 20$ on October 3rd. If you purchase it at the brewery you get your first fill for free. (For more information and details you can check out their events page. Link provided below.) You can also order it online through their website.

Celebration

Can’t wait for the event! Its been a long, winding, arduous, fun, hard, and tough year, for not just Rubber Soul, and Hummelstown, but for everyone. It’s time to enjoy the fall weather, enjoy some great live music, wonderful food, fantastic beers, and great company.

Hopefully we’ll get to see you all there!

Cheers!

-B. Kline

Links

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The Battle of the Breweries (2021) Winner Is….

BKline — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 12:47:54 +0000

The Battle of the Breweries (2021)

It is finally time to announce the winner of the Battle of the Breweries (2021), and what a tournament it was! Obviously, like everything else we do here on The Beer Thrillers, it couldn’t be a normal tournament. Instead of doing regular March Madness style brackets of 32 or 64 (or even smaller ones of 16 or 8), we did 48. So right off the bat, things are going to get odd – ball crazy. With the finals being a Triple Threat that saw Isle of Que Brewing vs. Rubber Soul Brewing Company vs. Troegs Independent Craft Brewing Company, in one epic showdown final!

So without further adieu…..

Your 2021 Battle of the Breweries Champion is….

Isle of Que Brewing

The Que Brew Crew themselves, the new, and possibly undisputed (we haven’t had any disputes yet) champion of The Beer Thriller’s arbitrary Battle of the Breweries (2021), and your people’s champion – The Isle of Que Brewing, straight out of Selinsgrove Pennsylvania.

A huge and massive shout out to them, as they racked up 3,744 votes in the final round to defeat Rubber Soul Brewing Company and Troegs Independent Craft Brewing Company. What an impressive final battle this was too!

The Triple Threat Cage Match

For anyone following along, voting, and checking the results, this was an extremely heated battle. Depending on what time you looked at the results on Saturday and Sunday you could have seen Rubber Soul up by two hundred, or you might have see the Que Brew up by fifty, or as they pulled ahead at the very end on Sunday, the Que Brew jumped to a nearly four hundred vote difference. The battle was extremely heated and intense between Que Brewing and Rubber Soul. Somewhere in this scuffle, Troegs Brewing was left far far and far behind, not sure how that happened, as they consistently got the most votes each round, but sadly, for the finals they only got a total of 90 votes; which in and of itself is a giant shocker.

This was a very fun finals match-up with lots of interesting Facebook and Instagram posts from both Que Brewing and Rubber Soul. Que Brew had a unique and interesting Facebook post each day hyping up the tournament and getting their votes, make sure you head over to their Facebook page to see some of their fun and interesting posts.

The final results and tallies for the Triple Threat Championship is as follows:

The Isle of Que Brewing (third seed) won with 3,744 votes.
Rubber Soul Brewing Company (second seed) came in second place with 3,353 votes.
Troegs Independent Craft Brewing Company (one seed) came in third place with 90 votes.

For a combined total of 7,187 votes.

This was the most votes of any round, and this time with only one question, versus the other rounds which all had more than one question to vote on.

Despite Troegs Brewing poor finals vote count, they were the big dogs going into the match-up against relatively unknown underdog Isle of Que Brewing and the new (opened during the pandemic, version 2.0, rebranding, and moved from Salisbury Maryland to Hummelstown Pennsylvania) Rubber Soul Brewing Company. All three breweries (competitors) did extremely well and deserve their place here in the finals.

The Battle of the Breweries (2021) Results

This was an extremely fun tournament to run and I hope all the breweries, fans of the page, fans of the breweries, and anyone reading the articles had just as much fun with it as we did here at The Beer Thrillers. Yesterday (Sunday, April 4th, 2021, Easter) broke our single day page view on the blog with a whopping 12K+ views. And for that alone, we can’t say thank you enough to everyone who took the time out of their busy lives to visit the blog and vote. Hopefully you all got to look at some of the other articles and liked what you saw here on the blog.

But let’s get to the results, how did we get here?

I already covered the full tournament (minus the finals of course) results in the previous article, where you got to vote, so you can check the results of the tournaments here: “The Battle of the Breweries (2021) – The Triple Threat Finals Match“.

But, let’s look at the road each of our finals competitors took to get to the finals match, and then lets also look at statistics of the tournament as a total.

Isle of Que Brewing Company is The Champion

The Isle of Que Brewing Company (or Que Brew Crew) was the definition of a Cinderella and was akin to a 16 seed in the NCAA March Madness tournament winning. What an incredible road they had to get to their finals victory!

In the first round they defeated Jackie O’s Brewery – as the 11th seed defeating the 2nd seed – 146 votes to 31 votes.

(After each round of voting, the tournament was reseeded, so it wasn’t a strict bracket like March Madness or others.)

In the second round they defeated Pizza Boy Brewing Company – as the 11th seed defeating the 2nd seed – 193 votes to 141 votes.

In the third round they defeated Fourscore Beer Company – as the 12th seed defeating the 1st seed – 149 votes to 115 votes.

In the fourth round they defeated Rotunda Brewing Company – as the 6th seed defeating the 1st seed – 212 votes to 79 votes.

In the finals, they were the 3rd seed vs. Rubber Soul (2nd seed) and Troegs Brewing (1st) seed, and won with 3,744 votes.

Total votes for the tournament for Isle of Que Brewing was: 4,444. Quite the impressive number!

Rubber Soul Brewing Company – Second Place

Rubber Soul Brewing Company had a fantastic run and came in second place in the tournament. They had some stiff competition along the way to their second place finals finish as well.

In the first round they defeated Breaker Brewing – as the 10th seed defeating the 3rd seed – 65 votes to 57 votes.

In the second round they defeated Moo-Duck Brewing – as the 9th seed defeating the 4th seed – 168 votes to 116 votes.

In the third round they defeated Dewey Beer Company – as the 11th seed defeating the 2nd seed – 182 votes to 65 votes.

In the fourth round they defeated Ever Grain Brewing – as the 5th seed defeating the 2nd seed – 154 votes to 106 votes.

And in the finals (as the 2nd seed) they lost to Isle of Que Brewing. They had 3,353 votes in the final.

Rubber Soul Brewing Company’s total vote count was: 4,102.

Troegs Independent Craft Brewing Company grabs the bronze

Troegs Brewing is definitely one of the juggernauts of Pennsylvania Brewing, and were a very heavy favorite for this tournament as well (which also saw breweries from New York, Ohio, Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Indiana). Despite their poor showing in the finals, they still had a very impressive tournament run.

In the first round they defeated Saucony Creek Brewing Company – as the 4th seed defeating the 9th seed – 48 votes to 9 votes.

In the second round they defeated Swiftwater Brewing Company – as the 5th seed defeating the 8th seed – 126 votes to 32 votes.

In the third round they defeated Urban Artifact – as the 8th seed defeating the 5th seed – 145 votes to 96 votes.

In the fourth round they defeated Boneshire Brew Works – as the 4th seed defeating the 3rd seed – 143 votes to 117 votes.

In the finals they came up short with third place and only 90 votes.

Troegs Craft Independent Brewing’s total vote count was: 552 votes.

Tournament Statistics

The total vote count for our three finalists were 9,098 votes. The total vote count for the entire tournament was 16,640 votes. (Out of 46 questions, which means the average vote to question was 361.7391304).

(Copy and pasted results from the previous article: The Triple Threat Match).

Now let’s take a look at the round per round results…

Round One Results

Voting statistics:

Total votes for round one: 3422
Total votes for Triple H Division: 388
Total votes for Ric Flair Division: 305
Total votes for HEELs conference: 693
Total “upsets” (any higher seed defeating a lower seed) in HEELs conference: 2
Total votes for Stone Cold Steve Austin Division: 870
Total votes for The Rock Division: 823
Total votes for FACEs conference: 1693
Total “upsets” (any higher seed defeating a lower seed) in FACEs conference: 7

Upsets:

HEELs Conference:

Gearhouse Brewing Company (9) defeating Levity Brewing (4)
Desperate Times Brewing Company (10) defeating Yellow Bridge Brewing (3)
Chatty Monks Brewing (7) defeating Cox Brewing Company (6)

FACEs Conference:

Three Heads Brewing (11) defeating Idiom Brewing (2)
Rubber Soul Brewing Company (10) defeating Breaker Brewing (3)
Tattered Flag (9) defeating ShuBrew Brewing Company (4)
Rough Edges Brewing (8) defeating Wolfs Ridge Brewing Company (5)
The Church Brew Works (12) defeating Cushwa Brewing (1)
The Isle of Que Brewing (11) defeating Jackie O’s Brewery (2)
Molly Pitcher Brewing Company (8) defeating Mellow Mink Brewing (5)

Results of Round One

HEELs Conference: Triple H Division:

Fourscore Brewing Company (1 seed) (52 votes) defeated Black Forest Brewing (12 seed) (15 votes)
Urban Artifact (2 seed) (41 votes) defeated The Ministry of Brewing (11 seed) (23 votes)
Mad Chef Brewing (3 seed) (39 votes) defeated ZeroDay Brewing Company (10 seed) (25 votes)
GearHouse Brewing Company (9 seed) (39 votes) defeated Levity Brewing (4 seed) (33 votes)
Swiftwater Brewing Company (5 seed) (43 votes) defeated Highway Manor (8 seed) (18 votes)
Sun King Brewery (6 seed) (33 votes) defeated Braxton Brewing Company (7 seed) (27 votes)

HEELs Conference: Ric Flair Division:

Dewey Beer Company (1 seed) (35 votes) defeated Couch Brewery (12 seed) (16 votes)
Rotunda Brewing Company (2 seed) (37 votes) defeated Snitz Creek Brewing Company (11 seed) (14 votes)
Desperate Times Brewing (10 seed) (30 votes) defeated Yellow Bridge Brewing (3 seed) (19 votes)
Troegs Craft Independent Brewing Company (4 seed) (48 votes) defeated Saucony Creek Brewing Company (9 seed) (9 votes)
Twisted Bine Brewing Company (5 seed) (30 votes) defeated Land-Grant Brewing Company (8 seed) (17 votes)
Chatty Monks Brewing (7 seed) (30 votes) defeated Cox Brewing Company (6 seed) (20 votes)

FACEs Conference: Stone Cold Steve Austin Division:

Ever Grain Brewing Company (1 seed) (85 votes) defeated Mt. Gretna Craft Brewery (12 seed) (49 votes)
Three Heads Brewing (11 seed) (65 votes) defeated Idiom Brewing (2 seed) (59 votes)
Rubber Soul Brewing Company (10 seed) (65 votes) defeated Breaker Brewing (3 seed) (57 votes)
Tattered Flag (9 seed) (102 votes) defeated ShuBrew Brewing (4 seed) (34 votes)
Rough Edges Brewing (8 seed) (177 votes) defeated Wolf’s Ridge Brewing (5 seed) (40 votes)
Boneshire Brew Works (6 seed) (70 votes) defeated Liquid Noise Brewing Company (7 seed) (67 votes)

FACEs Conference: The Rock Division:

The Church Brew Works (12 seed) (82 votes) defeated Cushwa Brewing (1 seed) (43 votes)
The Isle of Que Brewing Company (11 seed) (146 votes) defeated Jackie O’s Brewery (2 seed) (31 votes)
Pizza Boy Brewing Company (Al’s of Hampden) (3 seed) (106 votes) defeated Taft’s Brewing Company (Taft’s Ale House) (10 seed) (29 votes)
Funk Brewing Company (4 seed) (95 votes) defeated Olde Bedford Brewing Company (9 seed) (34 votes)
Molly Pitcher Brewing Company (8 seed) (79 votes) defeated Mellow Mink Brewing (5 seed) (51 votes)
Moo-Duck Brewing Company (6 seed) (81 votes) defeated Logyard Brewing Company (7 seed) (46 votes)

For more information about the Round One Results you can read the article for Round Two and the Round One results here. The Battle of the Breweries (2021) moves on to the conference round.

Round Two Statistics

Statistics:

Total Votes: 2659
Total votes in the HEELs Conference: 872
Total Votes in the FACEs Conference: 1787
There was no upsets in the HEELs conference.
There was three upsets in the FACEs conference.

Upsets:

The Isle of Que Brewing (11) defeated Pizza Boy Brewing Company (Al’s of Hampden) (2) by 52 votes.
Rubber Soul Brewing Company (9) defeated Moo-Duck Brewing (4) by 52 votes.
Tattered Flag Brewery and Distillery (7) defeated Rough Edges Brewing (6) by 46 votes.

Round Two Results

HEELs Conference:

Fourscore Beer Company (1 seed) (71 votes) defeated GearHouse Brewing Company (12 seed) (61 votes).
Dewey Beer Company (2 seed) (70 votes) defeated Desperate Times Brewing Company (11 seed) (67 votes).
Rotunda Brewing Company (3 seed) (96 votes) defeated Chatty Monks Brewing (10 seed) (51 votes).
Urban Artifact (4 seed) (79 votes) defeated Sun King Brewery (9 seed) (48 votes).
Troegs Independent Craft Brewing Company (5 seed) (126 votes) defeated Swiftwater Brewing Company (8 seed) (32 votes).
Mad Chef Brewing Company (6 seed) (117 votes) defeated Twisted Bine Brewing Company (7 seed) (54 votes).

FACEs Conference:

Ever Grain Brewing Company (1 seed) (170 votes) defeated The Church Brew Works (12 seed) (119 votes).
The Isle of Que Brewing (11 seed) (193 votes) defeated Pizza Boy Brewing Company (Al’s of Hampden) (2 seed) (141 votes).
Funk Brewing Company (3 seed) (178 votes) defeated Three Heads Brewing (10 seed) (103 votes).
Rubber Soul Brewing Company (9 seed) (168 votes) defeated Moo-Duck Brewing (4 seed) (116 votes).
Boneshire Brew Works (5 seed) (155 votes) defeated Molly Pitcher Brewing Company (8 seed) (134 votes).
Tattered Flag Brewery and Distillery (7 seed) (178 votes) defeated Rough Edges Brewing (6 seed) (132 votes).

Round Three Statistics

Statistics:

Total Votes: 1,447 (six questions)
There was four upsets (out of six match-ups)

Upsets:

Isle of Que Brewing (12) defeated Fourscore Beer Company (1) – 149 to 115
Rubber Soul Brewing Company (11) defeated Dewey Beer Company (2) – 182 to 65
Troegs Independent Craft Brewing (8) defeated Urban Artifact (5) – 145 to 96
Boneshire Brew Works (7) defeated Funk Brewing Company (6) – 118 to 115

Results of Round Three

Isle of Que Brewing (12 seed) (149 votes) defeated Fourscore Beer Company (1 seed) (115 votes)
Rubber Soul Brewing Company (11) (182 votes) defeated Dewey Beer Company (2 seed) (65 votes)
Rotunda Brewing Company (3 seed) (127 votes) defeated Mad Chef Brewing Company (10 seed) (101 votes)
Ever Grain Brewing Company (4 seed) (129 votes) defeated Tattered Flag Brewery (9 seed) (108 votes)
Troegs Brewing Company (8 seed) (145 votes) defeated Urban Artifact (5 seed) (96 votes)
Boneshire Brew Works (7 seed) (118 votes) defeated Funk Brewing Company (6 seed) (115 votes)

Round Four Statistics and Results

In a shocking twist, all three match-ups from Round Three were won by the underdogs. (I re-ranked the seeds after each round.) The number six seed Isle of Que Brewing has kept their Cinderella tournament streak alive and pulled a major upset over Rotunda Brewing Company. Rubber Soul Brewing Company (fifth seed) posted a big upset over Ever Grain Brewing Company, and despite being the big dog in Pennsylvania, but ranked lower (due to ranking being based on Untappd average score) Troegs Independent Craft Brewing (fourth seed) pulled up an upset over Boneshire Brew Works.

Results:

Isle of Que Brewing (sixth seed) (212 votes) defeated Rotunda Brewing Company (one seed) (79 votes).
Rubber Soul Brewing Company (fifth seed) (154 votes) defeated Ever Grain Brewing Company (second seed) (106 votes).
Troegs Independent Craft Brewing Company (fourth seed) (143 votes) defeated Boneshire Brew Works (third seed) (117 votes).

There was a total of 811 votes for round four.

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You

I cannot underestimate how awesome this was, and how appreciative I am of everyone who came to the site and blog and voted. Who visited our social media pages (our Facebook, our Twitter, and our Instagram). This was such a tremendous and huge turnout, I am already thinking of March Madness 2022! Which will definitely be an even bigger Battle of the Breweries! I’m thinking of keeping it the same theme – only breweries I’ve visited, and maybe including ones that Josh has also visited, and ones that some of our writers have as well. And putting no limits on it. So by March 2022, this could be a list of two hundred or more breweries competing! Could do it state by state leading to when the states are down to their final one or two and then moving on into a bigger tournament. Not sure yet, if you have any ideas or suggestions, be sure to leave them in the comments or leave us some feedback through our contact page.

If you have any thoughts, questions, concerns, or anything you’d like to say about how the tournament was ran, made, or done, or anything at all really, you can always leave a comment here on each blog post, or you can contact us specifically using the CONTACT US page. This directly e-mails your comment to use (as well as leaving one in a specific folder only viewable to us, on the site).

I want to give a huge shout out to Isle of Que Brewing and Michael Salter who was promoting the tournament nearly daily on their media pages. Big kudos for them for winning the tournament. Hopefully we can do something with them in the future to celebrate!

Also a big shout out to Rubber Soul Brewing Company for such an impressive run in the tournament. Coming so close to winning it, with the tremendous year they had in opening, and the pandemic, and everything going on.

And of course a shout out to Troegs Brewing as well for reaching the finals. This was definitely a very interesting tournament, and was great to see one of the “OGs” – original pioneers – of Pennsylvania’s brewing scene make it to the finals.

Thank you everyone who visited, voted, and shared. We appreciate it so much. And again, big time congratulations to our champions of the inaugural Battle of the Breweries (2021) – The Isle of Que Brewing Company. We can’t wait for March 2022 and see if they are able to repeat as champions!

Cheers everyone, please stay safe, and make sure to use Uber when driving, now that bars and everyone is open more fully, and don’t have to sell food, make sure you are taking care of your liver, and more importantly, taking care of yourself and others on the road.

Cheers!

-B. Kline

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