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Table Of Results | A Little Bit About Beer
Other Beer Tasting Results:
A Stout Challenge | Micros vs. Macro
Festival Of Small Breweries:
11th Annual | 12th Annual | 13th Annual | 14th Annual | 15th Annual | 16th Annual | Springfest 2005 | Fallfest 2005 | Springfest 2006

tankhouse aleThe 18th Annual Festival Of Small Breweries

Our 18th Annual Festival Of Small Breweries on Friday September 29, 2006 put a special emphasis on the hop. With twelve of the thirty-seven brews showcased of the Pale Ale style. Used to add bitterness and preserve beer, hops are also known to have a pacifying effect. It was with the advent of hop use in beer that the expression "brewers droop" appeared in the English lexicon. It was a relaxed evening where conversation trumped most efforts at applying scientific rigor to the proceedings - 707 samples were rated out of the 2028 served.

  • The very hoppy, Hop Addict from Durham Brewing finished at the head of the pack with a median score of 42.5 out of 50. McAuslan's Raspberry Ale and C'est What's Hazelnut Coffee Porter (brewed by Bruce Halstead at Durham) were runners-up with scores of forty.
  • Of the dozen brews that finished with a higher than average score of 36 or more, five were of the pale ale style.
  • The Most Curious award for the most tasted beer goes to the perennially interesting breweries Black Oak and Scotch Irish with their Wet-Hopped Cask Pale Ale and Casked Tsarina Katarina Imperial Stout respectively.

Cheers!
Median scores for beers with at least 16 samples rated in rank order
Looks
Aroma
Flavour
Finish
Likeability
Total
Samples Rated

out of 4
out of 6
out of 22
out of 8
out of 10
out of 50

Durham Hop Addict
3.5
5.0
19.0
7.0
8.0
42.5
18

McAuslan Raspberry Ale
4.0
5.0
18.0
6.0
7.0
40.0
29

C'est What Hazelnut Coffee Porter
4.0
5.0
18.0
6.0
7.0
40.0
26

Mill St. Barley Wine
3.0
4.0
18.0
5.0
8.0
38.0
27

C'est What Chocolate Ale
4.0
4.5
16.5
5.5
7.0
37.5
16

Church-Key Cranberry Wheat
4.0
5.5
16.0
6.0
6.0
37.5
18

Black Oak Wet-Hopped Cask Pale Ale
3.0
4.0
17.0
6.0
7.0
37.0
36

666 Devil's Pale Ale (Great Lakes)
3.0
4.0
17.0
6.0
7.0
37.0
32

King Dark Lager
3.0
4.0
17.0
6.0
7.0
37.0
29

Granite Dry-Hopped Cask IPA
3.0
3.0
17.0
6.0
7.0
36.0
24

Church-Key West Coast Pale Ale
3.0
4.0
16.0
6.0
7.0
36.0
20

Scotch Irish Tsarina Katarina Imperial Stout
3.0
4.0
17.0
6.0
6.0
36.0
36

Beau's Lug Tread Lagered Ale
3.0
3.5
16.0
6.0
7.0
35.5
26

Neustadt Manchester Bitter
3.0
4.0
15.0
6.0
6.0
34.0
31

Trafalgar Strawberry Anti-Social
3.0
4.0
15.0
6.0
6.0
34.0
28

Taps Wine Barrel Lager
3.0
3.0
16.0
5.0
6.0
33.0
31

KLB Pale Ale
3.0
3.5
14.5
6.0
6.0
33.0
16

MacLean's Dry-Hopped Cask Pale Ale
3.0
3.5
15.0
5.0
6.0
32.5
28

Scotch Irish Sgt. Major's Cask IPA
2.0
3.0
14.0
6.0
6.0
31.0
27

Trafalgar Debau Cherry
3.0
3.0
14.0
5.0
5.0
30.0
30

J.R. Brickman Pilsner
3.0
2.0
13.0
5.0
5.0
28.0
19

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