5th Annual Spring Festival Of Craft Breweries

Hundreds of beer lovers of all shapes, sizes, and sensibilities gathered at C'est What on Friday May 22, 2009 for the fifth annual Festival Of Craft Breweries. True to the basic nature of taste, our intrepid samplers didn't agree on much. Individual scores for each brew would, more often than not, run the gamut from zero to five. One thing that nearly everyone who tried it agreed on was the superb qualities of Denison's Weissbier which was the only entrant to garner a median score of the top mark, five. Other notables were the Grand Church-Key Stout, River Russian Gun Stout, Wellington Russian Imperial Stout, Mystique Cider, C'est What Hazelnut Chocolate Ale, Mike Duggan's IPA No. 9, Durham Hop Addict (cask), and McAuslan Vintage Ale which each had a median score of four. The most sampled beers were Fying Monkeys Hoptical Illusion and Mill Street Lemon Tea Ale.

For those of you that are statistically inclined, we served 3860 samples in the five hours, up 83% from last year's Springfest. That amounts to about one serving every five seconds. The simplified rating system seemed to work with 44% of samples scored compared with 14% the year previous.

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Scores for products rated by more than 25 people, maximum score is five

Samples

Std Dev

Median

32

1.2

5

Church-Key Stout

32

0.9

4

53

1.1

4

50

1.1

4

49

1.2

4

34

1.4

4

50

1.4

4

39

1.6

4

42

1.7

4

31

0.9

3

29

0.9

3

43

1.0

3

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