This is the official voting page for the CICERO Conference – Round of 32. It will go from March 2nd until March 8th, 2026. Below are the rules and then the voting survey block. You may only vote once per day per battle. The honorees section is 10 breweries, but only 1 will move on to the next round.

The 2026 Battle of the Breweries – CICERO Conference: Round of 32

VOTING Rules

Voting is straight forward and simple. There are four conferences: ATLAS, BELMA, CICERO, and DANA. (All named after different hop varietals.) Each week, from Monday through Sunday, there will be a voting page for each of the conference. Click on the voting page, open it up, and it will have a pop-down survey poll. Starting with the Round of 64, all the way down to the finals of each conference, followed by a Fatal Four Way that will have the winner of each conference fighting for the grand champion!

You can vote daily for each of the conferences, so you can make up to 4 votes (one per conference) per day. Each round will be one week, except for the Finals which will be two weeks. The rounds are as follows: Round of 64, Round of 32, Round of 16, Round of 8, Round of 4, Conference Finals (Round of 2), and the Finals Fatal Four-Way (Winner of each Conference in a four-way match). So for the first week, there will be 32 matches in the conference, then in the second week there will be 16 matches, then 8 matches, then 4 matches, then the last two rounds are just 1 match each.

VOTE

Tournament Guidelines

We fully encourage everyone to have as much fun as possible with this tournament! Share and comment and talk about the breweries facing off. Upset your favorite brewery isn’t in the tournament? Sorry! It means one of us probably haven’t been there, or they just barely missed our cut when deciding the 256 breweries to include! Social media is a fantastic tool for sharing your brewery or your favorite brewery’s voting page. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, BlueSky, Mastodon, Tumblr, LinkTree, umm…. MySpace? LinkedIn? Pinterest? What other social medias do you cool young kids use? Whichever it is, feel free to share and bolster and brag about how your brewery is doing or encourage others to vote for your favorite brewery!

Please do keep it all in fun though. This isn’t meant to belittle or demean breweries or to create real animosity. Its a fun light hearted competition in the spirit of the NCAA March Madness basketball tournament. So with that in mind please enjoy it!

Good Luck

Once again – good luck to all the breweries involved, and have fun! Be sure to share this page or the direct voting pages for best results.

Cheers!

-Ben

-The Beer Thrillers

The following list is the full 168 competitors that will be competing in this year’s (2026) Battle of the Breweries! The regular 128 competitors in the main tournament, with each conference having their bonus “10 play-in honors” competitors, who will then face off with the 1 v 16 winner in the second round. Thus bringing the full tournament up to a total of 168 Pennsylvanian Brewery competitors!

For the rules and guidelines and voting, you can see the main article here: The 2026 Battle of the Breweries – Rules, Guidelines, Competitors, and General Information.

Good luck to all involved!

(Note, the following is listed in their spot in the tournament – 1 to 32 by conference, and then the 10 honorees listed in their grouping.)

(Note two, keep in mind the tournament is structured that 1 v 32, 2 v 31, 3 v 30, etc.)

The 2026 Battle of the Breweries Tournament

ATLAS Conference

1. Other Half Brewing
2. Hidden River Brewing
3. Dancing Gnome Brewing
4. Abjuration Brewing
5. Fourscore Beer Co
6. Grist House Craft Brewing
7. Michaux Brewing
8. Bonn Place
9. Collusion Tap works
10. Raney Cellars Brewing
11. Boneshire Brew Works
12. Boal City Brewing
13. Rural City Brewing
14. Groove Brewing
15. The Beerded Goat Brewing
16. Broken Goblet Brewing
17. Stable 12 Brewing
18. Rubber Soul Brewing
19. Aldus Brewing
20. Levity Brewing
21. J.J. Rattigan Brewing
22. The Millworks
23. Artillery Brewing
24. Eclipse Craft Brewing
25. Punch Buggy Brewing
26. Desperate Times Brewery
27. Spring House Brewing
28. Rusty Rail Brewing
29. Jackass Brewery
30. Lost Mined Brewing
31. Bube’s Brewery
32. Jigsy’s Brewpub

Honorees:

1. Sterling Pig Brweing
2. Susquehanna Brewing Company
3. The Church Brew Works
4. Two Frays Brewing
5. Urban Village Brewing
6. Hidden Key Brewing
7. Market Cross Brewpub
8. ZeroDay Brewing
9. Twelve78 Brewing
10. Sherman Street Brewing

BELMA Conference

1. Sworn Brewing
2. South County Brewing
3. Hitchhiker Brewing
4. Forbes Trail Brewing
5. Rough Edges Brewing
6. La Cabra Brewing
7. Moo-Duck Brewing
8. Inner Groove Brewing
9. Lindgren Craft Brewing
10. Acclamation Brewing
11. Free Will Brewing
12. Allusion Brewing
13. Braeloch Brewing
14. Liquid Noise Brewing
15. Lincoln Avenue Brewing
16. Molly Pitcher Brewing
17. Burg’hers Brewing
18. GearHouse Brewing
19. AleCraft Brewery
20. Columbia Kettle Works
21. Bullfrog Brewery
22. Robin Hood Brewing
23. Juniata Brewing Company
24. Bright Path Brewing
25. Saucony Creek Brewing
26. Snitz Creek Brewing
27. Bearded Lady Brewing
28. Covered Bridge Brehause
29. Axemann Brewery
30. Lydian Stone Brewing
31. Otto’s Brewpub
32. Evil Genius Beer

Honorees:

1. Stoker’s Brewing
2. Stolen Sun Brewing
3. The Washington Brewing
4. Therapy Brewery
5. Turkey Hill Brewing
6. Twisted Bine Brewing
7. Whisker’s Brewing
8. Bald Birds Brewing
9. Seven Sirens Brewing
10. Lost Tavern Brewing

CICERO Conference

1. Aslin Beer Co
2. Ever Grain Brewing
3. New Trail Brewing
4. Pineknotter Brewing
5. Cartel Brewing and Blending
6. YAH Brew
7. Pilger Ruh Brewing
8. Bespoke Brewing
9. Our Town Brewery
10. Mad Chef Brewing
11. Hares Hill Brewing
12. Schaylor Brewing
13. Shy Bear Brewing
14. Copperz Brewing
15. Conny Creek Brewing
16. BierHall Brewing
17. Oakbrook Brewery
18. Tortured Souls Brewing
19. Sign of the Horse Brewery
20. Locust Lane Brewing
21. Helicon Brewing
22. Hop Farm Brewing
23. Benny Brewing
24. Happy Valley Brewing
25. Victory Brewing
26. Fat Bat Brewing
27. 1787 Brewing
28. The Leaning Cask Brewery
29. Lancaster Brewing Company
30. Cold Springs Inn and Brewery
31. Appalachian Brewing Company
32. Gunpowder Falls Brewing

Honorees:

1. Stone Bridge Brewing
2. Strange Roots Ales
3. Thirsty Farmer Brew Works
4. Tired Hands Brewing
5. VK Brewing
6. Wissihickon Brewing
7. Well Crafted Brewing
8. Gift Horse Brewing
9. McCall Collective
10. Aviator Brew Hub

DANA Conference

1. Antifragile Brewing
2. Warwick Farms Brewing
3. Human Robot Beer
4. Coven Brewing
5. Lolev Beer
6. Levante Brewing
7. Voodoo Brewing
8. Rotunda Brewing Company
9. Wolf Brewing
10. Cinderlands Beer Co
11. Pizza Boy Brewing
12. Pour Man’s Brewing
13. ShuBrew
14. Breaker Brewing
15. Hemaur Brewing
16. Inspiration Brewing
17. Selin’s Grove Brewing
18. Firewhistle Brewing
19. Second District Brewing
20. Root Down Brewing
21. Helltown Brewing
22. Scrubby’s Craft Brewrey
23. Troegs Independent Craft Brewing
24. Von C Brewing
25. Big Dog Craft Brewing
26. Olde Bedford Brewing
27. 2SP Brewing
28. Back Porch Brewing
29. Conshohocken Brewing
30. Black Forest Brewery
31. Old Forge Brewing
32. Lebanon Valley Craft Brewery

Honorees:

1. Straub Brewery
2. Sunset Hill Farm Brewing
3. Coal Tipple Brewery
4. Truss Brewing
5. Fetish Brewing
6. Yards Brewing
7. Yellow Bridge Brewing
8. Dock Street Brewing
9. Fegley’s Brewery
10. Vortex Brewing

Voting

Voting is straight forward and simple. There are four conferences: ATLAS, BELMA, CICERO, and DANA.  Each week, from Monday through Sunday, there will be a voting page for each of the conference. Click on the voting page, open it up, and it will have a pop-down survey poll.

Voting schedule:

• Round of 32 – March 2nd through 8th
• Round of 16 – March 9th through 15th
• Round of 8 – March 16th through 22nd
• Round of 4 – March 23rd through 29th
• Conference Finals: March 30th through April 5th
• Finals Fatal Four Way: April 6th through 19th (Two weeks for the finals)

You can vote daily for each of the conferences, so you can make up to 4 votes (one per conference) per day. Each round will be one week, except for the Finals which will be two weeks. For the Conference Finals I might just make it 1 voting page rather than 4 distinct voting pages. It all depends on what will be easier for the blog’s coding and all that back house stuff.

Tournament Guidelines

We fully encourage everyone to have as much fun as possible with this tournament! Share and comment and talk about the breweries facing off. Upset your favorite brewery isn’t in the tournament? Sorry! It means one of us probably haven’t been there, or they just barely missed our cut when deciding the 256 breweries to include! Social media is a fantastic tool for sharing your brewery or your favorite brewery’s voting page. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, BlueSky, Mastodon, Tumblr, LinkTree, umm…. MySpace? LinkedIn? Pinterest? What other social medias do you cool young kids use? Whichever it is, feel free to share and bolster and brag about how your brewery is doing or encourage others to vote for your favorite brewery!

Please do keep it all in fun though. This isn’t meant to belittle or demean breweries or to create real animosity. Its a fun light hearted competition in the spirit of the NCAA March Madness basketball tournament. So with that in mind please enjoy it!

Good Luck

Once again – good luck to all the breweries involved, and have fun! Be sure to share this page or the direct voting pages for best results.

Cheers!

-Ben

-The Beer Thrillers

Once again its March and we find ourselves ready for The Battle of the Breweries! Each year I try and do something different with it, and this year is no different. This year we are doing just Pennsylvanian Breweries. Of course, the same rule as always applies – to be in the tournament, it must be a brewery that one of the writers for The Beer Thrillers have visited. (Meaning, a brewery or taproom of the brewery, in Pennsylvania, visited by B. Kline, J. Doncevic, or Paul Kan.) This year’s tournament size is impressive too! Its four conferences of 32 breweries each, for a total of 128 breweries. But wait — theres more! Each conference has a bonus “10 brewery honors” vote. From this group, only one brewery will move on, and they will join the winner of the 1 v 16 to make a triple threat in the second round.

Gotta love a good gimmick! (Paul Heyman taught me that.)

The 2026 Battle of the Breweries Tournament

The Battle of the Breweries

We’ve been hosting our version of the NCAA March Madness since 2021. We call it “The Battle of the Breweries”. Its a pretty straightforward tournament, ran similarly to that of the March Madness basketball tournament. The conferences this year are: Atlas, Belma, Cicero, and Dana. (All named after different hop varieties.) (Each year I pick different hop conference names, in the past I’ve done wrestlers for WrestleMania, and other years I’ve done hop varieties.)

Between the three of us we have visited over 200 breweries in Pennsylvania, so we had to limit it down to the tournament size of 128. And I still found that too hard to keep it a great list…. so I added the four honors sections of 10 breweries each, bringing this to a total of 168 competitors. The original 128 were selected for their conferences randomly (I rolled a D4). The ten honors though are mostly end of alphabet breweries. Sorry, tough decisions had to be made with how to select the tournament and to set it up, and my time is very limited (a 50+ hour week job, four daughters, other hobbies, etc.) (I am devoting as much time to this unpaid event as I can, and actually this event as well as maintaining the blog costs me money, so I spend as much time as I can devote to a project that actually costs me money…. don’t tell my accountant.)

Once selected for their conferences, the breweries are then ranked via their Global Average Untappd rating as of 3.1.26. In the case of ties (ex. Brewery A – 3.77 rating and Brewery B – 3.77 rating) I rolled a dice for each brewery to determine the higher seed between the two (or three or four).

Yes I understand this isn’t the most fair tournament, and I also understand the additional 10 breweries were not selected fairly due to the alphabet. But unfortunately, most tournaments and such aren’t fair, and this is meant to be a fun tournament. This isn’t meant to demean or destroy a brewery or to cause fighting or hatred. This is all meant to be in good fun, so please keep it in mind and keep the spirit of it all while participating.

A list of the 168 competitors will follow this article shortly.

Voting

Voting is straight forward and simple. There are four conferences: ATLAS, BELMA, CICERO, and DANA.  Each week, from Monday through Sunday, there will be a voting page for each of the conference. Click on the voting page, open it up, and it will have a pop-down survey poll.

Voting schedule:

• Round of 32 – March 2nd through 8th
• Round of 16 – March 9th through 15th
• Round of 8 – March 16th through 22nd
• Round of 4 – March 23rd through 29th
• Conference Finals: March 30th through April 5th
• Finals Fatal Four Way: April 6th through 19th (Two weeks for the finals)

You can vote daily for each of the conferences, so you can make up to 4 votes (one per conference) per day. Each round will be one week, except for the Finals which will be two weeks. For the Conference Finals I might just make it 1 voting page rather than 4 distinct voting pages. It all depends on what will be easier for the blog’s coding and all that back house stuff.

Tournament Guidelines

We fully encourage everyone to have as much fun as possible with this tournament! Share and comment and talk about the breweries facing off. Upset your favorite brewery isn’t in the tournament? Sorry! It means one of us probably haven’t been there, or they just barely missed our cut when deciding the 256 breweries to include! Social media is a fantastic tool for sharing your brewery or your favorite brewery’s voting page. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, BlueSky, Mastodon, Tumblr, LinkTree, umm…. MySpace? LinkedIn? Pinterest? What other social medias do you cool young kids use? Whichever it is, feel free to share and bolster and brag about how your brewery is doing or encourage others to vote for your favorite brewery!

Please do keep it all in fun though. This isn’t meant to belittle or demean breweries or to create real animosity. Its a fun light hearted competition in the spirit of the NCAA March Madness basketball tournament. So with that in mind please enjoy it!

VOTING LINKS

The following section will be edited over time to include all of the different voting pages and their links. As well as the results pages. Results pages will be done when I have time. Between having four daughters, a girlfriend, a job, and writing for the blog, results pages may not be done immediately. Voting pages will be though.

2026 Battle of the Breweries – Rules, Guidelines, Competitors, and General Information

• The 2026 Battle of the Breweries – Rules, Guidelines, Competitors, and General Information
• The Battle of the Breweries 2026: Competitors List

Good Luck

Once again – good luck to all the breweries involved, and have fun! Be sure to share this page or the direct voting pages for best results.

Cheers!

-Ben

-The Beer Thrillers