...... is none other than Flying Fish Exit 4 American Trippel.
Read all about it here. The brackets, with popular votes, here.
Thoughts: The contest is what it is, basically a run-off competition. Arrange the brackets differently at the start, and the results would be different. The public voting amounts to pretty much a popularity contest, with "local" beers such as Evolution garnering high numbers of votes over "out-of-town" competition regardless of the merits of the beers. Side-by-side tasting is crucial to such judgment.
I would like to see what would happen if this run-off had been held with a bunch of BeerAdvocate.com or RateBeer.com regulars..........
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It looks to me like the popular vote had zero relevance whatsoever in determining which beers advanced. Only the critics' choices mattered.
That's correct; it's akin to the actual playoffs determining the basketball championships, not the teams' respective popular picks on home brackets.
"I would like to see what would happen if this run-off had been held with a bunch of BeerAdvocate.com or RateBeer.com regulars........"
For that matter, how about you Alex? Think the results would be the same (or even similar)?
This was a blind tasting and of course completely subjective. I'm willing to wager that if the same panel conducted the same contest again, the results would be different.
That being said, I never really did understand the reason for even polling a popular vote. That has/had about as much meaning as the results from the "best beer city" contest conducted by Charlie Papazian (where participants could vote as many times as the liked). I thought the poll results for the popular vote were completely predictable.
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