Following our 5th annual March Madness Bottle Share Tournament, I decided to look through the past to put together some notes and observations about previous tourneys.
- Pastry stouts have won 4 out of 5 previous tournaments
- A Wild beer, has been in the Final 4 of every tournament, and in the Finals 3x
- People ask if the whale in our logo has a name. Yes, his name is Spaulding
- The Number #1 Overall seeds for the previous tournaments includes Prop 14 twice, Rare Scooop, Tree House Good Morning, and Toppling Goliath Mornin Delight ’18
- There have been 142 bottles entered through the first 4 tournaments
- 80 Breweries have been represented in the first 4 tournaments
- The Bruery has had the most bottles entered from any brewery with 12. No Bruery beer has made it past the Elite 8
- Despite it being a Chicago event, only one Chicago brewery has won, Spiteful BA Malevolence Chocolate Caliente.
- No beer has ever finished in the Final 4 more than once
- Goose Island and Fremont are the only breweries that has ever been in the Finals more than once with 3 appearances total from Backyard Rye (2015) and Vanilla Rye (2017) and Prop 14 (2018,) and Fremont with Coffee Cinnamon B-Bomb (2015) and Brew 3000 (2019)
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