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The Battle of the Breweries (2024): Preliminary Qualifiers

B. Kline — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 13:58:56 +0000

The Preliminary Qualifiers

The Battle of the Breweries – 2024

Lets get this thing started! Its time to RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMMBLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

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

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

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

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

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

You can follow along with us on Facebook and Instagram.

The Rules

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

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

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

Ok…. enough with the questions!

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

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

Voting Rules

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

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

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

Schedule of Rounds

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

VOTE HERE

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

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

Participating Breweries

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

First up Is the Preliminary Breweries

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

Bravo Conference:

Pilger Ruh Brewing
Vortex Brewing
Sunset Hill Brewing Company
Brew Gentlemen

Crystal Conference:

Second Sin Brewing
BierHall Brewery
BruDaddy’s Brewing Company
Retriever Brewing

Fuggle Conference:

Gift Horse Brewing Company
Rising River Brewing Company
RAK Brewing
Neshaminy Creek Brewing Company

Galaxy Conference:

Great Barn Brewing
Wallenpaupack Brewing
Stone Silo Brewing Company
Lost Tavern Brewing

The Main Tournament Competitors

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

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

Boneshire Brew Works
YAH Brew
Other Half Brewing Company
Adroit Theory
Funk Brewing
Mad Chef Brewing
LoveDraft’s Brewing Company
Collusion Tap Works
Snitz Creek Brewing Company
Voodoo Brewing Company
Lost Rhino Brewing
Big Truck Farm Brewing
Jackass Brewery
Brewery Fire
Juniata Brewing Company
Wolf Brewing
Pizza Boy Brewing Company
Appalachian Brewing Company
Old Ox Brewery
Dewey Beer
Levante Brewing
Strange Roots Brewing Company
Cape May Brewing
Southern Tier Brewing Company
Human Robot Beer
Antifragile Brewing
Warwick Farm Brewing
New Trail Brewing Company
Fourscore Beer Company
AleCraft Brewery
Robin Hood Brewing
Sworn Brewing Company
Fat Bat Brewing Company
RAR Brewing
Black Forest Brewing
Desperate Times Brewery
Troegs Independent Brewing
ZeroDay Brewing
Von C Brewing Company
Hitchhiker Brewing Company
Yellow Bridge Brewing
Victory Brewing Company
Bullfrog Brewery
Bunnyman Brewing
Elder Pine Brewing and Blending
Shy Bear Brewing
Allusion Brewing Company
Mellow Mink Brewing
South County Brewing Company
Black Flag Brewing Company
Chubby Squirrel Brewing Company
Ever Grain Brewing Company
Cushwa Brewing
Pineknotter Brewing
Forbes Trail Brewing
Burley Oak Brewery
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery
Sly Fox Brewing Company
Harpers Ferry Brewing Company
Valhalla Brewing
Rusty Rail Brewing Company
White Elephant Brewing Company
Tombstone Brewing Company
Hackensack Brewing Company
Acclamation Brewing
Dancing Gnome Brewing
Vanish Farmwoods Brewing
Bright Path Brewing
Capitol City Brewing
Bolero Snort Brewing Company
Breaker Brewing
Sapwood Cellars
Rough Edges Brewing
Little Fish Brewing Company
Schaylor Brewing
Otto’s Brewpub
Attaboy Beer
Brix City Brewing Company
Willow Creek Brewing Company
Ten Eyck Brewing
Imprint Beer
Bog Turtle Brewery
Loakal Branch Brewing
Aslin Beer
Burnish Brewing
Jailbreak Brewing
Susquehanna Brewing Company
Jackie O’s Brewery
Sun King Brewery
Idiom Brewing
Noble Beast Brewing
Lydian Stone Brewing
Liquid Hero Brewing
Covered Bridge Brewhaus
Free Will Brewing
Gunpowder Falls Brewing
Tall Tales Brewing
Mustang Sally Brewing Company
Hemauer Brewing
Ocelot Brewing
Benny Brewing
Our Town Brewery
Gearhouse Brewing
Urban Artifact
Land-Grant Brewing Company
Levity Brewing
Pour Man’s Brewing
Logyard Brewing
Abjuration Brewing
Bespoke Brewing
Canton Brewing Company
Punch Buggy Brewing
Crooked Run Fermentation
Axemann Brewery
Gusto Brewing
Tired Hands Fermentaria
Hell in a Bucket Brewing
Morgantown Brewing Company
Braxton Brewing Company
Wolf’s Ridge Brewing
Ministry of Brewing
Stumbling Monkey Brewing
Liquid Noise Brewing Company
Abolitionist Ale Works

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Map of New Breweries We Visited in 2023

beermapsofusa — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 21:55:41 +0000

Map of New Breweries We Visited in 2023

A map of all the breweries we visited in 2023 for the first time.

This is a map of all the “new to us” breweries we visited in 2023. And by this I mean the physical locations. (So some of these will be breweries I’ve been to before, but a new location of theirs, like the Spring House Tavern.)

This list is Ben’s first time visits (mostly visited with Amy, and then later Scarlet).

How to Use The Map

You can zoom in, and click on each of the beer mugs with the paw prints on them to see the breweries. This will call up their address via Google Maps, as well as any other information they have supplied to Google (phone numbers, websites, etc.). You can also save this map to your Google Maps so when you call up Google Maps these locations will be pinned onto your map as an overlay.

Maps of Breweries in the United States of America (USA)

The below is a list of maps of the states, territories, and districts of the United States. As well as a fun map of all the breweries that The Beer Thrillers have been to. I am working on getting these done geographically, starting with Maine. (When the state is underlined and in color, means the map is done and ready to be viewed.)

States

Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming

Territories

American Samoa
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
Federated States of Micronesia
Guam
Republic of the Marshall Islands
Republic of Palau
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico

Districts

Washington D.C.

Miscellaneous Maps

Fun Maps

Map of All the Breweries that The Beer Thrillers Have Visited (Total)
Map of All the Breweries that The Beer Thrillers Visited (in 2024)
Map of All the Breweries that The Beer Thrillers Visited (in 2023)
Map of All the Breweries that The Beer Thrillers Visited (in 2022)
Map of All the Breweries that The Beer Thrillers Visited (in 2021)
Map of All the Breweries that The Beer Thrillers Visited (in 2020)

Pennsylvania Breweries

Two additional resources we currently have to offer for Pennsylvania Breweries:

If we decide to add any future maps, we will update the page if necessary. If you have any map suggestions for us, please feel free to comment, contact us, or e – mail us at thebeerthrillers@gmail.com

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If you like this article, please check out our other many articles, including news, beer reviews, travelogues, maps, and much much more. We greatly appreciate everyone visiting the site!

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MAPS OF BREWERIES

You can check out our different directories here: Beer Reviews, Hike Reviews, Book Reviews, Brewery News, Brewery Openings, Brewer Interviews, and Travelogues.

The Beer Thrillers on LinkTree can be found here: The Beer Thrillers LinkTree.

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Map of New Breweries We Visited in 2022

beermapsofusa — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 19:06:55 +0000

A map of the breweries we visited for the first time in 2022

Map of New Breweries We Visited in 2022

This is a map of all the “new to us” breweries we visited in 2022. And by this I mean the physical locations. I’ve obviously been to Boneshire Brew Works (since their very first day of opening), but this was the first time going to their “Taps @ Soma” location. The ZeroDay location is similarly the same, its technically a “new” location for them, thus why it makes the list.

This list is Ben’s first time visits (mostly visited with Amy, and then later Scarlet).

How to Use The Map

Maps of Breweries in the United States of America (USA)

States

Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming

Territories

American Samoa
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
Federated States of Micronesia
Guam
Republic of the Marshall Islands
Republic of Palau
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico

Districts

Washington D.C.

Miscellaneous Maps

Fun Maps

Map of All the Breweries that The Beer Thrillers Have Visited (Total)
Map of All the Breweries that The Beer Thrillers Visited (in 2024)
Map of All the Breweries that The Beer Thrillers Visited (in 2023)
Map of All the Breweries that The Beer Thrillers Visited (in 2022)
Map of All the Breweries that The Beer Thrillers Visited (in 2021)
Map of All the Breweries that The Beer Thrillers Visited (in 2020)

Pennsylvania Breweries

Two additional resources we currently have to offer for Pennsylvania Breweries:

Thank You For Reading

If you like this article, please check out our other many articles, including news, beer reviews, travelogues, maps, and much much more. We greatly appreciate everyone visiting the site!

Cheers.

MAPS OF BREWERIES

You can check out our different directories here: Beer Reviews, Hike Reviews, Book Reviews, Brewery News, Brewery Openings, Brewer Interviews, and Travelogues.

The Beer Thrillers on LinkTree can be found here: The Beer Thrillers LinkTree.

If you would like to reach out to us for product reviews, beer reviews, press release writing, and other media – please contact us at thebeerthrillers@gmail.com. Thank you.

The Trip to Indy – Day Six Recap: How I Spent 4 Hours Hiking the Wrong Way at Hocking Hills and Returned to West Virginia (Jackie O’s Brewpub, Little Fish Brewing Co, Mountain State Brewing, Morgantown Brewing Company)

BKline — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 04:24:00 +0000

Day six, next to last day, and I spent the first four hours and some odd minutes hiking Hocking Hills. I woke up, despite waking up early, I kinda left later than I wanted (a trend, waking up at 6AM, but not leaving til 9AM when I should have left already, sigh). Drove the hour and a half to Hocking Hills, getting there around 11AM, and getting lost. Note: Google Maps will take you to the edge of the road closest to the State Park. Put in “Old Man’s Cave Visitor Center”.

Cedar Rapids at Hocking Hills State Park

I arrive, get out, and despite (what I realized at the end when leaving) that I parked right where I was SUPPOSED to begin my hike, I went to the port-o-pots (had to go!) and from there saw a trail, so I took that red trail because it had signs saying “Cedar Falls”…. well, little did I know, that Hocking Hills is all set up (at least mostly all) as one way hike paths. So the three mile red path that got me there, was not the correct way to go. I cheated a bit and still went down to the rapids, and then took the blue path to Ash Cave, then the yellow path to connect back to Whispering Cave, Hemlock Bridge, and back to the visitor center. I never even got to see Old Man’s Cave, despite it being the biggest thing about the park, and right next to the visitor center. Oh well. Gives me things to do for the future. I hiked 12+ miles in 4 hours, and I hadn’t eaten yet, so I leave around 3:30PM.

Jackie O’s Brewpub

My first stop was Jackie O’s Tap Room / Brew Pub outside of Athens. They didn’t do anything other than snacks, so I just got a flight, grabbed a mix six pack to take home, and after spending my time there, I then went to the next Athens area brewery…

Little Fish Brewing Co

Little Fish Brewing Co. Here, I got a lamb panini / taco thing that was pretty interesting and good. Had a beer (they didn’t do flights), and then made my two hour and forty minute drive to Fairmont West Virginia.

I arrive at 8:40PM in Fairmont at a brewery called Short Story Brewing, which Facebook listed as closing at 9PM…. but they did last call at 8:30, so I wasn’t able to drink. She recommended Rambling Root bar and for breweries Mountain State and Morgantown in nearby Morgantown.

Mountain Stain Brewing

Hopped back in the old mobile that is really racking up miles, drove the 5 minutes or so to Morgantown, and stopped at Mountain Stain. It kind of reminded me of an Outback Steakhouse, Texas Steakhouse, Applebee’s conglomeration. Had a flight there, and they were ok. Wish I would have done their guest flight too, since it had several breweries from the area (including that Short Story Brewing) that I’ve never had before, so I would have at least been able to try a larger range, but it was getting on 10PM and they were closing up, and so I figured I’d quickly hit Morgantown because they close at 11PM.

Morgantown Brewing Company

Morgantown Brewing Company was a nice front street type brewery that was the neighborhood bar too. Talk ranged from politics, to philosophies, to weather, to crops, to TV shows, from the nearby tables. I sat back and sipped my pint til closing time.

Made it to my motel, checked in, and watched the latest episode of The Mandalorian (wow! wow! wow!).

Tomorrow brings me to Day 7 and my final, complete, road trip back home. I will do much more in-depth reviews, pictures, etc, for the days in a few days, when I’m able to soak things back in, get back to normalcy, and not be rushed by the seven day road trip. I’ll also post lists of what all breweries I hit, mileage, steps, my route, etc.

Enjoy, and see you all here tomorrow for the conclusion!

-B. Kline

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The Trip to Indianapolis: