The Conference Finals

The Battle of the Breweries: The Conference Finals

No this isn’t an April Fools Joke. March is over. Easter is over. We’ve made it through St. Patrick’s Day (and somehow survived). We’ve gone from the Preliminary Qualifiers, to the Round of 32, to the Round of 16, to the Round of 8, and then the Round of 4, and now its the Conference Finals!

Congratulations to the eight (8) remaining breweries! They will be competing to determine their Conference Winner which will go on to “fight” in the Finals Fatal Four-Way against the other Conference Winners. And that will determine the ultimate Battle of the Breweries champion for 2024!

We are down to the remaining eight breweries out of a total of 140 competing breweries (including the Preliminary Qualifiers). Next week we will have just the four conference winners for the Finals Fatal Four-Way.

Galaxy Conference Finals

The Galaxy Conference Finals are set, and its a match-up between: Mad Chef Brewing Company and Robin Hood Brewing Company.

Voting Rules

You can vote once per day, for each conference. Each day you can visit each of the Conference Articles and scroll down to the voting block, and vote once for each brewery duel.

We encourage you to share on all of your various social media accounts the pages to help maximize the votes your favorite brewery (or breweries) will receive.

Voting for the Conference Round of Four ends at 11:59:59 PM EST on Sunday, April 7th, 2024.

VOTE HERE

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

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

Previous Pages

For all of this year’s – The Battle of the Breweries 2024 – pages, you can view them below:

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
• The Battle of the Breweries (2024): Conferences and Participating Breweries
• The Battle of the Breweries (2024): Preliminary Qualifiers (Voting Page)
• The Battle of the Breweries (2024): Conference Round of 32 (Landing Page)
• The Battle of the Breweries (2024): BRAVO Conference – Round of 32 (Voting Page)
• The Battle of the Breweries (2024): CRYSTAL Conference – Round of 32 (Voting Page)
• The Battle of the Breweries (2024): FUGGLE Conference – Round of 32 (Voting Page)
• The Battle of the Breweries (2024): GALAXY Conference – Round of 32 (Voting Page)
• The Battle of the Breweries (2024): BRAVO Conference – Round of 32 (RESULTS Page)
• The Battle of the Breweries (2024): CRYSTAL Conference – Round of 32 (RESULTS Page)
• The Battle of the Breweries (2024): FUGGLE Conference – Round of 32 (RESULTS Page)
• The Battle of the Breweries (2024): GALAXY Conference – Round of 32 (RESULTS Page)
• The Battle of the Breweries (2024): BRAVO Conference – Round of 16 (Voting Page)
• The Battle of the Breweries (2024): CRYSTAL Conference – Round of 16 (Voting Page)
• The Battle of the Breweries (2024): FUGGLE Conference – Round of 16 (Voting Page)
• The Battle of the Breweries (2024): GALAXY Conference – Round of 16 (Voting Page)
• The Battle of the Breweries (2024): BRAVO Conference – Round of 16 (RESULTS Page)
• The Battle of the Breweries (2024): CRYSTAL Conference – Round of 16 (RESULTS Page)
• The Battle of the Breweries (2024): FUGGLE Conference – Round of 16 (RESULTS Page)
• The Battle of the Breweries (2024): GALAXY Conference – Round of 16 (RESULTS Page)
• The Battle of the Breweries (2024): BRAVO Conference – Round of 8 (Voting Page)
• The Battle of the Breweries (2024): CRYSTAL Conference – Round of 8 (Voting Page)
• The Battle of the Breweries (2024): FUGGLE Conference – Round of 8 (Voting Page)
• The Battle of the Breweries (2024): GALAXY Conference – Round of 8 (Voting Page)
• The Battle of the Breweries (2024): Conference Round of 8
• The Battle of the Breweries (2024): BRAVO Conference – Round of 8 (RESULTS Page)
• The Battle of the Breweries (2024): CRYSTAL Conference – Round of 8 (RESULTS Page)
• The Battle of the Breweries (2024): FUGGLE Conference – Round of 8 (RESULTS Page)
• The Battle of the Breweries (2024): GALAXY Conference – Round of 8 (RESULTS Page)
• The Battle of the Breweries (2024): BRAVO Conference – Round of 4 (Voting Page)
• The Battle of the Breweries (2024): CRYSTAL Conference – Round of 4 (Voting Page)
• The Battle of the Breweries (2024): FUGGLE Conference – Round of 4 (Voting Page)
• The Battle of the Breweries (2024): GALAXY Conference – Round of 4 (Voting Page)
• The Battle of the Breweries (2024): Conference Round of 4
• The Battle of the Breweries (2024): BRAVO Conference – Round of 4 (RESULTS Page)
• The Battle of the Breweries (2024): CRYSTAL Conference – Round of 4 (RESULTS Page)
• The Battle of the Breweries (2024): FUGGLE Conference – Round of 4 (RESULTS Page)
• The Battle of the Breweries (2024): GALAXY Conference – Round of 4 (RESULTS Page)
• The Battle of the Breweries (2024): BRAVO Conference – Conference Finals (Voting Page)
• The Battle of the Breweries (2024): CRYSTAL Conference – Conference Finals (Voting Page)
• The Battle of the Breweries (2024): FUGGLE Conference – Conference Finals (Voting Page)
• The Battle of the Breweries (2024): GALAXY Conference – Conference Finals (Voting Page)
• The Battle of the Breweries (2024): Conference Finals

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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 Battle of the Breweries (2023) – Conference Finals (Results Page)
• The Battle of the Breweries (2023) – Conference Finals (Voting Page) (Voting Closed)

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:

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

Social Media

The best way to get your brewery to jump up and ahead is to share it on your social media pages. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Patreon, OnlyFans, Twitch, Unfeathered, YouTube, Untappd, Bots.Com, Reach Around, Wrestling is Fake.com, Birds-aren’t-real.com, etc.

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

• The Battle of the Breweries (2023) – Chinook Conference: Group Stage
• The Battle of the Breweries (2023) – Nugget Conference: Group Stage
• The Battle of the Breweries (2023) – Saaz Conference: Group Stage
• The Battle of the Breweries (2023) – Walhalla Conference: Group Stage
• The Battle of the Breweries (2023) – Conference Group Stages – Overall Voting

Group Stage Results Pages

• The Battle of the Breweries (2023) – Chinook Conference Group Stage – Results
• The Battle of the Breweries (2023) – Nugget Conference – Group Stage – Results
• The Battle of the Breweries (2023) – Saaz Conference – Group Stage – Results
• The Battle of the Breweries (2023) – Walhalla Conference – Group Stage Results

Round of 16 Voting Pages

• The Battle of the Breweries (2023) – Chinook Conference – Round of 16
• The Battle of the Breweries (2023) – Nugget Conference – Round of 16
• The Battle of the Breweries (2023) – Saaz Conference – Round of 16
• The Battle of the Breweries (2023) – Walhalla Conference – Round of 16

Round of 16 Results Pages

• The Battle of the Breweries (2023) – Chinook Conference – Round of 16 Results
• The Battle of the Breweries (2023) – Nugget Conference – Round of 16 Results
• The Battle of the Breweries (2023) – Saaz Conference – Round of 16 Results
• The Battle of the Breweries (2023) – Walhalla Conference – Round of 16 Results

Round of 8 Voting Pages

• The Battle of the Breweries (2023) – Round of 8 Overview Voting Page
• The Battle of the Breweries (2023) – Chinook Conference – Round of 8 Voting
• The Battle of the Breweries (2023) – Nugget Conference – Round of 8 Voting
• The Battle of the Breweries (2023) – Saaz Conference – Round of 8 Voting
• The Battle of the Breweries (2023) – Walhalla Conference – Round of 8 Voting

Round of 8 Results Pages

• The Battle of the Breweries (2023) – Chinook Conference – Round of 8 Results
• The Battle of the Breweries (2023) – Nugget Conference – Round of 8 Results
• The Battle of the Breweries (2023) – Saaz Conference – Round of 8 Results
• The Battle of the Breweries (2023) – Walhalla Conference – Round of 8 Results

Conference Final Four Voting Pages

• The Battle of the Breweries (2023) – Chinook Conference – Conference Final Four Voting Page
• The Battle of the Breweries (2023) – Nugget Conference – Conference Final Four Voting Page
• The Battle of the Breweries (2023) – Saaz Conference – Conference Final Four Voting Page
• The Battle of the Breweries (2023) – Walhalla Conference – Conference Final Four Voting Page
• The Battle of the Breweries (2023) – Conference Final Four Overview

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.

Here is a list of some of our most recent articles:

• Beer and Pretzel Review: Legends and Lore (St. Boniface Brewing Company) and Garlic Parm Pretzels (Pretzels.com)
• Separatist Beer Project Announces Closing of Both Locations
• Fermentery Form Announces Closure
• I’ve Missed Drinking (A Look at Non Alcoholic Beers)
• Isle of Que Brewing – The Que Brew Crew – Has Announced Their Closing
• Sponsoring with Beer Drop
• BrewDog Pittsburgh Has Closed
• Visiting Virginia Breweries in Fairfax, Sterling, and Ashburn – Or Voyaging in the Land of Animal Breweries – Saying Farewell to Rocket Frog Brewing and Hello to Chubby Squirrel Brewing, Lost Rhino Brewing, and Old Ox Brewery
• From Central PA to the Pacific: A Beer Lover’s Hawaiian Journey An Interview with Alexander B. Gates
• Central PA Pour – Season 2: Episode 8 – The Beer Thrillers
• Book Review: The Blue Zones Challenge: Your Guide to a Healthier, Happier, Longer Life (Daniel Buettner)
• Book Review: A Woman’s Place is in the Brewhouse – A Forgotten History of Alewives, Brewsters, Witches, and CEOs (Tara Nurin)
• Beer Review: Bohemia Clara Pilsner (Heineken Mexico)
• Tacos & Beer Las Vegas Joins Forces with Able Baker Brewing Company
• The ARCHIVES (all of our articles in chronological order)

And here is some of our more popular articles:

• Human Robot – Milk Tube
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Block Party of the Summer

How do you recognize one of the baddest and coolest party throwers around? By throwing one of the biggest and baddest bashes ever in his honor! Thats just what’s in store this Saturday at Tattered Flag. We’ve discussed Bartley Kaminski here on the blog before, in numerous different ways, but recently with his passing, and with the event here and various events in the distant past.

This event has been planned out for quite a while now, but has really blown up with Bart’s passing. Tons of breweries adding their names to the list, and lots of other additions, and add – ons and groups adding to it and showing up in various ways to help the cause. It looks to be one hell of a bash, and one hell of a way to salute, and remember Bart and to throw one final rad party in his honor and memory.

Bartley Kaminiski

We talked about Bart before here, and talked about his passing previously here: Farewell to Bartley Francis Kaminski. He founded Kollision Media, Hop Hedz Gear, and has been referred to as “The Willy Wonka of Beer Events”. I could go on and on about him here. He was just a great guy, the life of the party without being too much, and everyone who knew him, or even just met him at one event or the other has amazing memories or stories to tell about him. My buddy talks about Bart’s green – suit or green – man appearance at the Atlantic City Brewfest all the time. There was very rarely an event in the Central PA area where you didn’t see a Hop Hedz Gear stand or Bart himself. And I guarantee you there was at least one person walking around in a tee shirt or hoodie that he made.

I can’t do him justice here discussing his amazing life, but we can do him justice by having one heck of a party in his honor.

Brews and Bands for Bart

Look at that line-up! And word is there might be more additions to come and stuff, even though this is the “finalized” list. And I’m sure some might have their own little additions or add ons or secret hidden stashes too.

Here is a full list with all of their Untappd links:

• Artiface Ales and Mead
• Big Dog Craft Brewery
• Boneshire Brew Work
• Breweries of PA (Facebook Page and Group)
• Chatty Monks Brewing
• Dancing Gnome Brewing
• The Englewood
• Ever Grain Brewing Company
• Evil Genius Brewing
• Fahnestock and Baer
• Four Score Beer Company
• Funk Brewing
• Human Robot
• Lovedrafts Brewing Company
• Levante Brewing Company
• Lions Head
• Liquid Noise
• Mad Chef Brewing
• Moo Duck Brewing Company
• Naked Brewing
• Our Town Brewery
• Pilger Ruh Brewing
• Pour Man’s Brewing
• Raney Cellar’s Brewing
• REHAB Homebrew Group
• Rotunda Brewing Company
• Root Down Brewing
• Samuel Adams (Boston Beer Company)
• Troegs Independent Craft Brewing
• Wolf Brewing
• Seven Sirens Brewing Company
• Shy Bear Brewing
• St. Boniface Brewing Company
• Stickman Brewing
• Stolen Sun Brewery
• Tattered Flag Brewery and Distillery
• Tripping Animals
• Wingcraft
• Workhorse Brewing Company
• Yards Brewing
• ZeroDay Brewery

Word is also Lancaster Brewing Company, North Country Brewing, and maybe one or two more will be unofficially added. That is one hell of a lineup right there! With breweries from out of state like Tripping Animals (Florida) and much more.

And let us not forget the bands part of this event as well!

Also, as posted by Hop Hedz Gear on social media:

In addition to the 40+ breweries that will be attending the fest, we would like to thank our group of vendors who will be a part of the event! Thanks so Whimsical Wonders By Kris, Thicc Bois Glassware, D&S Cigar Lounge, Dutch Country Soft Pretzels, and Feathers Feed and Jerky. Be sure to stop by these booths, as all sales will have a portion of proceeds donated to the cause!

When, Where, How

When is this amazing block party bash? This Saturday, from noon to 4PM. Where is it? At Tattered Flag Brewery on South Union Street in Middletown, Pennsylvania (Dauphin County). How do you get tickets? Check out Hop Hedz Gear, or go here: https://shop.hophedzgear.com/products/brews-and-bands-for-bart

(UPDATE: Tickets have sold out. On the day of, they will have roughly 100 tickets for purchase at the door. This will be the only way to attend the event now.)

Tattered Flag and Breweries of PA Collab

Make sure to check out the Breweries in PA tent to find the special Hard Pills to Swallow Tattered Flag collaboration that they made just for the event. It is also available in cans, and you can purchase it through the statewide shipping “Supply Drop” that Tattered Flag offers.

More Information, Facebook Event Page, and Beer Thriller Links

For more information, you can read the event page description here:

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“As you may know, in late February, Bart Kaminski was diagnosed with Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer with Sarcomatoid DIfferentiation. A rare form of cancer that quickly spread to his adrenal gland, lymph nodes and surrounding bone marrow.To support Bart’s growing medical expenses, we are throwing a unique brewfest! It will take place on Saturday, Aug. 14 in the block in front of Tattered Flag Brewery and Still Works in Middletown. The event is $40 (in advance) or $45 the day of the event and that gets you a pint can glass and unlimited samplings. Food will be available for purchase.This event is co-sponsored by The Beer Busters Podcast who will be recording live at the event.We are going to have a fantastic line-up of bands! Noon – 12:45 p.m. – Shannon Bobb acoustic
1:00 – 2:15 p.m. – Colt Wilbur Band
2:30 – 3:45 p.m. – The Martini Bros.Breweries will be announced every few days. Here are the breweries that have already been announced:Artiface Ales & Mead
Big Dog
Boneshire
Breweries Of PA (TF Collab)
Chatty Monks
Dancing Gnome
Englewood
Evergrain
Fahnestock & Baer
Four Score
Funk
Human Robot
Lovedrafts
Levante
Lions Head
Liquid Noise
Mad Chef
Moo Duck
Naked Brewing
Our Town
Pilger Ruh
Pour Man’s
Raney Cellars
REHAB
Root Down
Rotunda
Samuel Adams
Seven Sirens
Shy Bear
St. Boniface
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Some previous links to articles on The Beer Thrillers where we discuss Bart Kaminski:

• Farewell to Bartley Kaminski
• Hike: Governor Dick (post – funeral services hike)

Some Tattered Flag related articles:

• Beer Review: Tattered Soul
• Beer Share at Tattered Flag
• Beer Review: The Pandalorian
• Beer Review: Social Distancing
• Beer Review: Fatum: Member Berry
• “Tattered Flag Articles“

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Round Two of The Battle of the Breweries (2021) is officially in the books. And we move on from having two conferences to being down to just the final twelve! The terrific twelve! After this round it will be six remaining breweries, and after that a triple threat to decide who is the most liked – or best – or voted on the most – or whatever term you want to pick – in this arbitrary list of breweries battle that we made here on The Beer Thrillers. Unlike previous rounds this post will be both results of Round Two and the voting page for Round Three. So if you want to just vote, scroll down to the Voting heading. If you want to see the statistics for Round Two keep reading.

Round Two Statistics

Once again thank you everyone who voted, shared, or commented on the previous two rounds. A great idea to help your brewery out is to share this page on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.

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.

Results of Round Two:

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 Now Begins

And the great cage fight dwindles in competitors and continues on into Round Three. Round Three sees us do away with the conferences and just have twelve terrific competitors left standing and tapping their beers. The surviving twelve breweries have been reseeded based on Untappd scores. Voting begins now and will continue until Sunday, March 21st at 11:59 PM – Midnight (EST).

Round Three Match-Ups:

Round Three sees some very interesting fights, especially with the few upsets we had last round and some close voting results. The match ups are as follows:

• Fourscore Beer Company (1) vs. The Isle of Que Brewing (12)
• Dewey Beer Company (2) vs. Rubber Soul Brewing Company (11)
• Rotunda Brewing Company (3) vs. Mad Chef Brewing (10)
• Ever Grain Brewing Company (4) vs. Tattered Flag Brewery and Distillery (9)
• Urban Artifact (5) vs. Troegs Independent Craft Brewing Company (8)
• Funk Brewing Company (6) vs. Boneshire Brew Works (7)

VOTING

Click through the survey below to vote, and may the best (or at least your favorite) breweries win!

Past Articles and Results

For more information on The Battle of the Breweries (2021) – The Beer Thrillers version of March Madness; you can scroll through the previous articles and voting results.

Information Articles:

• March Madness (2021) – The Battle of the Breweries – The Beer Thrillers Way
• Round One Results and Round Two Set-Up

Voting Pages:

• Round Two: HEELs Conference
• Round Two: FACEs Conference
• Round One: HEELs Conference: Triple H Division
• Round One: HEELs Conference: Ric Flair Division
• Round One: FACEs Conference: Stone Cold Steve Austin Division
• Round One: FACEs Conference: The Rock Division

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To view the results of Round One, and for background information on the tournament – The Battle of the Breweries (2021) (March Madness) click here: Round One Results and Round Two and Moving Forward – The Battle of the Breweries (2021) (The Beer Thriller’s March Madness).

This is the poll for the HEELs Conference – Round Two. You can vote once per day, and you can vote once per poll (there is a poll for each division in round one). Be sure to share and send to your friends and breweries to let everyone vote!

Voting runs until March 14th, 11:59PM (EST).

For past links, go here:

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

Round One Voting Polls:

• HEELs Conference:
  * Triple H Division: Round One
  * Ric Flair Division: Round One
• FACEs Conference:
  * Stone Cold Steve Austin Division: Round One
  * The Rock Division: Round One

Vote

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Voting Polls for Round Two

(Edited: March 8th, 9:02AM). Since this is the landing page when exiting the polls, I am posting the links here for both poll locations, so you can easily jump to the next poll to vote.

• HEELs Conference: Round Two Voting
• FACEs Conference: Round Two Voting

Round One Has Finished

Thank you everyone who has voted in round one. We got 3422 votes in one week and thus has ended round one of the tournament! We have gone from 48 breweries and competitors down to 24 breweries left.

First a word on going forward: due to how I have set-up the brackets and how its not a typical “32” or “64” or “128” tournament, that means we will now go from divisions to two conferences. (We’ll keep the wrestling theme going and still call them the HEELs and FACEs conferences.) At this point we will also re-seed the conferences. Just like before, total global average rating on Untappd will be used to seed the breweries.

But first up, some statistics from the first round:

Round One Statistics

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)

Round Two

Round two now begins and will run until next Sunday night at Midnight – eastern time. (March 14th – March 15th Midnight). We now do away with the divisions and just go into conferences. So there is now two conferences of 12 breweries / competitors each. The conferences are reseeded (again using Untappd rankings) to create the new brackets for each conference.

Round Two Match-Ups

The new brackets for the conferences, and The Battle of the Breweries (2021) March Madness going forward now looks like this:

HEELs Conference:

• Fourscore Beer Company (1) (4.09) vs. GearHouse Brewing Company (12) (3.68)
• Dewey Beer Company (2) (4.08) vs. Desperate Times Brewing (11) (3.69)
• Rotunda Brewing Company (3) (3.96) vs. Chatty Monks Brewing (10) (3.71)
• Urban Artifact (4) (3.90) vs. Sun King Brewery (9) (3.71)
• Troegs Craft Independent Brewing Company (5) (3.79) vs. Swiftwater Brewing Company (8) (3.77)
• Mad Chef Brewing Company (6) (3.79) vs. Twisted Bine Brewing Company (7) (3.79)

FACEs Conference:

• Ever Grain Brewing Company (1) (3.93) vs. The Church Brew Works (12) (3.56)
• Pizza Boy Brewing Company (Al’s of Hampden) (2) (3.88) vs. The Isle of Que Brewing Company (11) (3.69)
• Funk Brewing Company (3) (3.86) vs. Three Heads Brewing Company (10) (3.71)
• Moo-Duck Brewing Company (4) (3.83) vs. Rubber Soul Brewing Company (9) (3.74)
• Boneshire Brew Works (5) (3.83) vs. Molly Pitcher Brewing Company (8) (3.75)
• Rough Edges Brewing (6) (3.82) vs. Tattered Flag (7) (3.79)

Voting Begins Now

The polls will be going up shortly after this post goes live (about 8:30AM EST). Make sure to share the polls to help your favorite breweries in! And hopefully we can beat round one’s total of votes! (We need 3423 votes to break the first week’s numbers.)

Thank you all for participating in the polls!

For past results and information on the brackets, you can check out the following links:

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

Round One Voting Polls:

• HEELs Conference:
  * Triple H Division: Round One
  * Ric Flair Division: Round One
• FACEs Conference:
  * Stone Cold Steve Austin Division: Round One
  * The Rock Division: Round One

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Thanks for reading everyone!

Cheers!

-B. Kline

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This is the poll for the HEELs Conference – Triple H Division – Round One. You can vote once per day, and you can vote once per poll (there is a poll for each division in round one). Be sure to share and send to your friends and breweries to let everyone vote!

Voting runs until March 7th, 11:59PM (EST).

To read more about The Battle of the Breweries (2021) you can read the initial post here: The Battle of the Breweries (2021) – March Madness – The Beer Thrillers way.

Any questions, concerns, or comments about the brackets, or tournament, or breweries in question, you can leave in the comment section or message us directly through our Contact Page.

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The Battle of the Breweries (2021) – VOTING LINKS

Since this is the landing page post – survey, I will keep all of the voting links here for quick reference and jumping point, and so they don’t get lost in all the muddle.

• HEELs Conference:
  * Triple H Division: Round One
  * Ric Flair Division: Round One
• FACEs Conference:
  * Stone Cold Steve Austin Division: Round One
  * The Rock Division: Round One

(Updated: 10AM – March 1st, 2021. Continue on for the original introduction to The Battle of the Breweries [2021] – March Madness tournament – article.)

Who’s ready for some March Madness? Like everyone else, in March, that means we need to fill out some brackets! And we here at The Beer Thrillers are no different!

BUT….

Instead of filling out NCAA or college basketball brackets, we are doing our own take on it – The Battle of the Breweries (2021)!

The Battle of the Breweries (2021)

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 it also B. Kline’s favorite episode? What does that say about him? Why is the sky blue?

Ok…. enough with the questions!

The procedure for this ‘tournament’ will be similar to most other March Madness style tournaments. Similar to the ones you’ve seen Untappd and Breweries in PA have done, but with a bit of a twist. Because we here at The Beer Thrillers have a terrible time making full fledged decisions, the list of competitors will be 48 instead of the normal 32.

How did I decide what breweries will be involved? Simple. Only breweries that I have physically visited in person. The voting is based on the brewery and their beers; but to be included on this list, I personally had to have been to one of their locations.

How is seeding decided? Thats also pretty simple, the seeding is based on global average Untappd ratings. So the decision of the seeding is out of my hands. Also, bonus, you can’t get mad at me for the seeding. “Why is X above Y? Why is Z below D?” Its all decided by Untappd.

So whats the tournament structure? One total grouping of 48 breweries (in lieu of teams), divided by two conferences of 24 each, which is divided further into a total of four divisions of 12 each. So break down is simple: 4 divisions of 12 each, with two divisions per conference, of 24 teams in each, for a total of 48 competitors / teams / breweries.

How did we decide on who is in what division? Simple – random number generator. I rolled the dice (a D4 to be exact, thank you to my old nerdy DnD days, I just ‘happened’ to have one of these lying about). Rolled the dice for each brewery to locate them into a division. If one division was understaffed and another overstaffed, I re-rolled until they were evened out.

Let’s Meet Our Competitors

So who all do we have facing off in this crazy free for all of brewing expertise? Quite an assembly of breweries actually. There are a heavy abundance of local (Central PA local) breweries but there is an assortment of breweries from my various travels and across a few states. We have a few breweries from the Rochester area of New York; some breweries from Maryland, a Delaware brewery, some from Ohio, one from Indiana, and one from Kentucky as well.

Surprisingly; it actually took a while to curate the list. At even 48 entries, I still had many more to include, and even removed a few to make it a bit more diverse. I wanted to try and make this as diverse as possible (so removed a local brewery for one out of state, etc.). Possibly in the future, maybe the 2022 iteration of this, or the 2023, who knows, it’ll expand to even more breweries.

This has taken up pretty much my entire night to create the list, and to roll the dice for their divisions, and then checking their Untappd scores to get them into the correct seedings. In the case of matching Untappd scores, I did make my own decision, and that was primarily based on my thoughts of their size, notoriety, branding; so there is a few judgment calls due to a few ties, but there isn’t too many of them.

Conferences and division names…. I had to decide on what to pick. I was going to go by hop names, but I saw at last second, that the Breweries in PA have done that this year, instead of their normal divisions based on geography, it appears they decided to use hop names for their divisions, so thats out. I debated doing Jedi and Sith for the conferences and then doing different Jedi or Sith Masters for the division names…. but… instead decided to go with WWF/E names due to WrestleMania 37 approaching.

So I present you two conferences. One is based on HEELs and one is based on FACEs. The names of the breweries are listed in the order of their seedings, and will have their location and their Untappd (global average) rating behind their names.

The Heels Conference

First up, is divisions one and two of the HEELS conference. Triple H and Ric Flair.

Division One: Triple H

• Fourscore Beer Company (Gettysburg, PA) (4.09)
• Urban Artifact (Cincinnati, OH) (3.90)
• Mad Chef (East Petersburg, PA) (3.79)
• Levity Brewing (Indiana, PA) (3.77)
• Swiftwater Brewing Company (Rochester, NY) (3.77)
• Braxton Brewing Company (Covington, KY) (3.75)
• Sun King Brewery (Indianapolis, IN) (3.71)
• Highway Manor (Camp Hill, PA) (3.70)
• Gearhouse Brewing (Chambersburg, PA) (3.68)
• ZeroDay Brewing (Harrisburg, PA) (3.69)
• The Ministry of Brewing (Baltimore, MD) (3.64)
• Black Forest Brewing (Ephrata, PA) (3.62)

Division Two: Ric Flair

• Dewey Beer Company (Dewey Beach, DE) (4.08)
• Rotunda Brewing Company (Annville, PA) (3.96)
• Yellow Bridge Brewing (Pittsburgh, PA) (3.88)
• Troegs Independent Brewing (Hershey, PA) (3.79)
• Twisted Bine Brewing Company (Mount Joy, PA) (3.79)
• Cox Brewing Company (Elizabethtown, PA) (3.71)
• Chatty Monks (Reading, PA) (3.71)
• Land-Grant Brewing Company (Columbus, OH) (3.70)
• Saucony Creek Brewing Company (Kutztown, PA) (3.70)
• Desperate Times Brewing (Carlisle, PA) (3.69)
• Couch Brewery (Pittsburgh, PA) (3.60)

The Faces Conference

The faces conference is made up of two divisions led by Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock. First up, is Division Three, Stone Cold Steve Austin.

Division Three: Stone Cold Steve Austin

• Ever Grain Brewing (Mechanicsburg, PA) (3.93)
• Idiom Brewery (Frederick, MD) (3.90)
• Breaker Brewing (Wilkes-Barre, PA) (3.85)
• ShuBrew (Zelionople, PA) (3.85)
• Wolf’s Ridge Brewing Company (Columbus, OH) (3.84)
• Liquid Noise (Marysville, PA) (3.84)
• Boneshire Brew Works (Harrisburg, PA) (3.83)
• Rough Edges (Waynesboro, PA) (3.82)
• Tattered Flag (Middletown, PA) (3.79)
• Rubber Soul Brewing Company (Hummelstown, PA) (3.74)
• Three Heads Brewing (Rochester, NY) (3.71)
• Mount Gretna Craft Brewery (Palmyra, PA) (3.58)

Division Four: The Rock

• Cushwa Brewing (Williamsport, MD) (4.11)
• Jackie O’s Brewery (Athens, OH) (4.02)
• Pizza Boy Brewing Company (Al’s of Hampden) (Enola, PA) (3.88)
• Mellow Mink (Mechanicsburg, PA) (3.84)
• Moo-Duck Brewing (Elizabethtown, PA) (3.83)
• Logyard Brewing Company (Kane, PA) (3.78)
• Molly Pitcher Brewing (Carlisle, PA) (3.75)
• Olde Bedford Brewing Company (Bedford, PA) (3.75)
• Taft’s Brewing Company (Taft’s Ale House) (Cincinnati, OH) (3.72)
• Isle of Que Brewing (Selinsgrove, PA) (3.69)
• The Church Brew Works (Pittsburgh, PA) (3.56)

Alright, that’s all 48 competitors. Tomorrow the brackets will be published and you will be allowed to vote on the first round matchups. Here’s where things get a bit screwy…. mainly because I don’t do math so good (sigh, sad subject, really, since I work at a job where I do math all day). Well, what really happened, is that I didn’t think through the breakdown. 32 breaks down easily for each round…. 48…. not so much. So…..

Week one will be divisions with 6 matches in each divisions. After that, the divisions will break for week two, and it will be by conference, with 6 matches in each conference. After this, we break apart the conferences, and do another 6 matches. This leaves us with 3 final competitors, for a triple threat for the ending.

So…. I kinda sorta walked myself into a corner…. and kinda… sorta…. walked my way out of it. Glad I chose to use wrestler themed people, so that the finale “Triple Threat” makes more sense.

*Smacks head* D’oh!

But anyway, there will be 7 days of voting for each round. With the final round taking the remainder of the month and ending on the 31st.

Voting

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.

Following each round, I will update the brackets and post them and make up the new polls for voting. Round one begins on March 1st, 2021 and will last until March 7th at Midnight, when it will then become the next round.

I suggest helping your breweries out and sharing the poll pages so that as many of your friends and brewery lovers can vote as well. Good luck to all of the competitors… err… breweries!

As always, please like us and follow us here and on our social media pages to stay up to date on The Beer Thrillers. We have plenty of content to check out, so be sure to stop by often to see what we have coming out. Beer reviews, brewery reviews, travelogues, events, news, and more!

Thanks for reading everyone!

Cheers!

-B. Kline