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Allusion Brewing Company Appreciation Party

B. Kline — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 16:29:00 +0000

The Battle of the Breweries Winning Championship Belt. The 2023 Champion – Allusion Brewing Company.

Battle of the Breweries – 2023 Champions

The Winner of the 2023 Battle of the Breweries, and your champion – Allusion Brewing Company; will be hosting a celebratory party to show their appreciation on July 22nd at their brewery in Vandergrift, Pennsylvania.

They outlasted 159 other breweries from several states to become The Battle of the Breweries 2023 Winner. This year’s tournament done in the style of the World Cup with an opening group stage then turned into the knock out tournament. In the knock out tournament they defeated Chatty Monks Brewing, Victory Brewing, Bunnyman Brewing, and Von C Brewing. In the finals they defeated Tattered Flag Brewery and Distillery, AleCraft Brewing Company, and Mad Chef Brewing in a fatal four – way.

Battle of the Breweries 2023 Winner

They have won several awards over the years, primarily from the CBMAs. They won both in 2022 and in 2023 at the CBMAs.

So in honor of all the support they receive from their fans and followers – Allusion Brewing Company is throwing an appreciation party.

Appreciation Party – July 22nd, 2023

This week at Allusion Brewing Company – Saturday: Customer Thank You Party and The Beer Thrillers Award Party

Tomorrow – Saturday July 22nd, 2023 – Allusion Brewing Company is hosting a celebratory appreciation party to thank all of their loyal guests, customers, and followers.

Today is your last chance to get “Blue Lion,” strawberry rhubarb sour and our “SMASH IPA.”

Open tonight until 11:00pm.

Tomorrow is our Appreciation Party!

Come join us as a “thank you for your support” and the awards you help us win!

#thebeerthrillers are joining us tomorrow from 12:30-3:30 to celebrate our 2023 Battle of the Breweries Championship!

*Come down and meet TheBeerThrillers and get your picture with the Championship Belt!

*Door prizes – winner every 15 minutes

*Vanilla Mocha White Stout “First Day” back on tap!

*Robert will be cooking complimentary food for you from 12-5pm.
Allusion Brewing Company – Facebook Post

So please come out tomorrow and meet Amy and I from 12:30ish to 3:30ish. We are coming from the Harrisburg area, so its (checks Google Maps again) a 3 hour and 47 minute drive. We are hoping to be on the road no later then 8:30 and hoping to be in Vandergrift by noon.

The party sounds like its going to be a blast, and it was so cool to get on social media today to find out they went and made their own championship belt for the appreciation party. A great piece of hardware to add to their growing pile of CBMA awards.

Can’t wait to get to see many of you tomorrow, and get to see the Allusion Brewing crew again. Last time I was there was in 2020 on a trip out to Indianapolis and stopped in. So glad I did! The beer was fantastic.

Hope to see you all tomorrow at the Appreciation Party! Cheers!

For More Information on Allusion Brewing Company

For more information about Allusion Brewing Company you can visit their very well designed website here: Allusion Brewing Company – Official Website.

The following comes from Untappd: Allusion Brewing Company is a micro brewery from Vandergrift, Pennsylvania. They have 56 unique beers and just over 5,200 ratings, with a global average rating of 3.84 (as of 7.21.23). Their Untappd description reads: Vandergrift’s hometown brewery, offering a consistent library of approachable beers taking the tradition of each style seriously. Craft beer is about bringing people together – come join our story.

For more information, you can find them at their social media pags here:

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The Battle of the Breweries (2023) Winner Is

B. Kline — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 20:47:29 +0000

Allusion Brewing Company is the 2023 Battle of the Breweries Champion.

The Battle of the Breweries (2023) Winner Is…

The winner of this year’s Battle of the Breweries is Allusion Brewing Company!

Allusion Brewing Company has survived the tournament of 160 breweries ranging from states of Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Indiana, and Kentucky as well as the district of Washington.

They defeated Tattered Flag Brewery and Distillery, AleCraft Brewing Company, and Mad Chef Brewing in the Finals Fatal Four Way.

They won with 58.77% of the votes. Second place had 35.14% of the votes. They totaled 2517 votes in the finals to win 2023’s Battle of the Breweries!

Quick Finals Break Down

A quick finals break down, as I will go into the full details in a follow up post most likely tomorrow or the day after.

Break down of the votes in the finals:

Tattered Flag Brewery and Distillery (4th Place) – 111 votes (2.59%)
Mad Chef Brewing (3rd Place) – 150 votes (3.50%)
AleCraft Brewing Company (2nd Place) – 1505 votes (35.14%)
Allusion Brewing Company (1st Place) – 2517 Votes (58.77%)

Champions

Battle of the Brewery Winners

Allusion Brewing Company joins Isle of Que Brewing and Von C Brewing as winners of our yearly “Battle of the Breweries”. We started the tournament in 2021. This was our third year of hosting it.

For more information on the past winners:

Allusion Brewing Company

If you haven’t been to Vandergrift Pennsylvania, or never heard of Allusion Brewing Company, you are certainly doing yourself a disservice. Make your way out there and check them out.

For a full article on them, you can check it out here:

Allusion Brewing Company

You can visit Allusion Brewing Company in Vandergrift, Pennsylvania at 143 Grant Ave, Vandergrift, PA 15690, just like I did back in November 2020. They have a beautiful little tap room, with a very cool flight system. Their flights are in old book catalogue (from a near by Library that sold their Book Catalogue desk / table / system), and the tasters fit into it perfectly, and all the bartender has to do is pull them out of the card catalogue cabinet / table / desk system thing.

I had an absolute wonderful time when visiting the brewery, and cannot wait to come back out to Vandergrift to get check them out again.
The Beer Thrillers – Allusion Brewing Company

More Information About Allusion Brewing Company

For more information about Allusion Brewing Company you can visit their very well designed website here: Allusion Brewing Company – Official Website.

The following comes from Untappd: Allusion Brewing Company is a micro brewery from Vandergrift, Pennsylvania. They have 53 unique beers and just over 4,600 ratings, with a global average rating of 3.84 (as of 4.17.23). Their Untappd description reads: Vandergrift’s hometown brewery, offering a consistent library of approachable beers taking the tradition of each style seriously. Craft beer is about bringing people together – come join our story.

For more information, you can find them at their social media pags here:

Conference Finals Voting Page

The Battle of the Breweries (2023) – Conference Finals

Conference Finals Results Page

The Battle of the Breweries (2023) – Conference Finals Results

Thank You For Reading

Sorry for getting this posted so much later in the day. My insomnia kicked in hard last night and I didn’t sleep much or well at all last night, factor in a newborn, and you can see why I was dragging butt to start the day. Also early in the morning Amy had a doctor’s appointment so we had that, and then had a friend stop over, and between all of that, household chores, etc, etc, etc, yadda yadda yadda (and no, I didn’t yadda yadda over the best part), this is why its only going up now.

My apologies.

I was also trying to decide how I wanted to write the article and how I wanted to frame it, I think I’ll do the full recap in a different article, and will probably get that posted up tomorrow. So be on the look out for that.

I want to thank all 160 breweries that participated. It was so great seeing all of the breweries get into it over the past month (more than a month’s worth of time!). I hope everyone had a good time. I thought the tournament ran very smoothly.

I want to say congratulations to the four breweries that made it to the finals – Tattered Flag Brewery, Allusion Brewing Company, AleCraft Brewing Company, and Mad Chef Brewing. And especially to Allusion Brewing Company for winning.

Congratulations!

Honestly everyone, if you have a chance to stop out at Allusion Brewing Company in Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, please do. I very highly recommend it!

I’m hoping to get back there this year. Fingers crossed.

Ok everyone, thank you for reading. If you have any comments, questions, concerns, suggestions or anything at all, don’t hesitate to comment.

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Cheers All!

-B. Kline

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The Battle of the Breweries (2023) – Finals Fatal Four Way

B. Kline — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 14:44:31 +0000

The Battle of the Breweries (2023) – Finals Fatal Four Way

The Finals Fatal Four Way

Here it is – the Main Event! Its the Finals Fatal Four Way! The culmination of the entire 2023 Battle of the Breweries! And what a tournament this has been! We have four stellar conference champions now pitted against each other in a Finals Fatal Four Way.

Three great breweries from Pennsylvania and one brewery from Maryland will be competing in our multi – state 160 brewery tournament finals.

You can find the results from the Conference Finals here:

The Finals Fatal Four Way is the winner of each of the conferences – Chinook, Nugget, Saaz, and Walhalla, competing in a final match – up to determine the Champion of this year’s Battle of the Breweries. Its a single winner match – up between the four, so no multiple choice, no elimination, just vote for one of the four competing breweries (the voting will only allow you to vote for one).

The Finals Fatal Four Way Competitors

The four remaining breweries, our final four competitors, are:

Chinook Conference Winner: Tattered Flag Brewery and Distillery
Nugget Conference Winner: Allusion Brewing Company
Saaz Conference Winner: AleCraft Brewing Company
Walhalla Conference Winner: Mad Chef Brewing

So which will it be? Who will be 2023’s Battle of the Breweries winner? Will it be Tattered Flag Brewery? Or will it be Allusion Brewing Company? Or could it be AleCraft Brewing Company? Or perhaps Mad Chef Brewing?

You decide!

Voting Rules

First, before we get to the voting, we have to go over the rules. Unlike all of the previous rounds, the Finals Fatal Four Way is a two week round. Voting will end Sunday, April 16th, at 11:59:59 PM EST.

You can vote once per day for your favorite brewery in the finals. The voting block will list all four breweries, but you can only select one. You can share this page on your social media to help your favorite brewery win the tournament.

Vote Here

Vote. Vote here. Get your voting here! Click below to vote:

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Remember to vote daily, starting today and ending on April 16th at 11:59:59 PM EST.

Social Media

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I will post about the tournament, giving updates on the finals match on The Beer Thrillers Facebook page daily. You can find our Facebook page here: The Beer Thrillers on Facebook.

Unlike some March Madness styled tournaments, we don’t hide voting results. So after you vote, you can click on the voting results and see where each brewery is standing in the Finals Fatal Four Way whenever you would like.

Past Results

Group Stage Voting Pages

Group Stage Results Pages

Round of 16 Voting Pages

Round of 16 Results Pages

Round of 8 Voting Pages

Round of 8 Results Pages

Conference Final Four Voting Pages

Conference Final Four Results Page

The Battle of the Breweries (2023) – Conference Final Four Results

Conference Finals Voting Page

The Battle of the Breweries (2023) – Conference Finals

Conference Finals Results Page

The Battle of the Breweries (2023) – Conference Finals Results

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Thank You For Reading

Ok, Scarlet apparently really loves the Lord of the Rings soothing music on YouTube (currently listening to Lord of the Rings | Gondor Music & Ambience, and that put her right to sleep. So I was able to get this voting page up. Thank you all for reading us here at The Beer Thrillers and checking out our page and having the patience as I get these articles up with a nearly five month old who is beginning to teethe.

I want to take this opportunity to congratulate the four remaining breweries and wish them all the best of luck. I have enjoyed visiting all four of them, and they certainly all rank very highly in my opinion. (Amy has been to three of them with me, and has loved the three she visited as well.)

It is a tremendous honor to get to this point in the competition – out of 160 breweries, we are down to just 4 remaining. Thats amazing to think about, and shows the love and support these breweries have.

Even the conference runner ups put in a tremendous effort and deserve some recognition too. Cox Brewing Company, Von C Breiwng Company, RAR Brewing, and Boneshire Brew Works are all amazing breweries and have loved my (and Amy as well) visits to their breweries.

As well as I want to take the moment to thank all of the 160 breweries that shared, linked, pushed, and helped make this tournament a rousing success. You all blow me away with the love, support, and energy you pour into this – as well as what you pour into your breweries (and, by relation – what you pour into my glass). Thank you all for everything you’ve done!

This tournament has been a lot of fun, but it is also a lot of work. So thank you to everyone for your patience. WordPress has also been a bit of a bear for much of this, but it appears the tagging, categories, formatting, and other issues got resolved just the past few days (noticed it when writing up the Separatist Beer Project Closure post). So things should be going smoothly – but if you do notice anything not working, please leave a comment or message us through the CONTACT US page or by e – mail at thebeerthrillers@gmail.com

In the upcoming two weeks I am going to do a more thorough look at the full tournament, breaking down the votes and how well each conference winner did. I will also do a full write up on each of the breweries in the Finals Fatal Four Way too, where I will list what articles we’ve done about them, and my visits to each of those places.

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-B. Kline

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The Battle of the Breweries (2023) - The Beer Thrillers

Allusion Brewing Company Appreciation Party

Battle of the Breweries – 2023 Champions

Appreciation Party – July 22nd, 2023

For More Information on Allusion Brewing Company

More of Our Articles About Allusion Brewing Company

For More of our Award Articles

Brewery News

Thank You For Reading

The Battle of the Breweries (2023) Winner Is

The Battle of the Breweries (2023) Winner Is…

Quick Finals Break Down

Champions

Allusion Brewing Company

More Information About Allusion Brewing Company

More of Our Articles About Allusion Brewing Company

Past Results:

Group Stage Voting Pages

Group Stage Results Pages

Round of 16 Voting Pages

Round of 16 Results Pages

Round of 8 Voting Pages

Round of 8 Results Pages

Conference Final Four Voting Pages

Conference Final Four Results Page

Conference Finals Voting Page

Conference Finals Results Page

Thank You For Reading

The Battle of the Breweries (2023) – Finals Fatal Four Way

The Finals Fatal Four Way

The Finals Fatal Four Way Competitors

Voting Rules

Vote Here

Social Media

Past Results

Group Stage Voting Pages

Group Stage Results Pages

Round of 16 Voting Pages

Round of 16 Results Pages

Round of 8 Voting Pages

Round of 8 Results Pages

Conference Final Four Voting Pages

Conference Final Four Results Page

Conference Finals Voting Page

Conference Finals Results Page

Questions, Comments, Concerns

Thank You For Reading