24 Hours of Beer

23rd Annual Festival Of Craft Breweries

We poured over 10,000 samples at our 23rd annual homage to the fine state of Canadian craft brewing. That's an average seven samples each minute for twenty-four hours. A little more than 30 per cent of these samples were rated and compiled.

The top-rated brew was St. Ambroise Pumpkin Ale, the only one to finish with a median score of eight out of ten. The most universally admired beers (having the most agreement among festival goers) were McAuslan Apricot Wheat, C'est What Homegrown Hemp Ale, and Muskoka Harvest Ale. The beer that was most rated, C'est What Mother Pucker's Ginger Wheat was also the most controversial, having the least agreement among those scoring. The second most sampled flavour was Black Oak Gender Bender proving that after two decades, the local beer-drinking public is still looking for adventure.

Of the sixty-two beers that were available to taste everything was deemed at least "decent effort" with eighteen finishing high enough to feature on a beer advent calendar. Twelve of the top finishers were of the "big" beer variety showing off some combination of high hops or alcohol.

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Scores for products rated by 40 or more people, maximum score is ten

Samples

Std Dev

Median

104

1.7

8

Spearhead Hawaiian Style Pale Ale

100

2.2

7

90

2.3

7

86

2.0

7

70

2.3

7

64

1.6

7

63

1.7

7

62

2.0

7

60

1.8

7

59

1.6

7

57

1.6

7

53

1.7

7

53

2.0

7

1.9

7

1.9

7

2.1

7

2.1

7

2.1

7

2.2

6

2.3

6

2.1

6

2.2

6

2.8

6

2.4

6

2.0

6

2.3

6

2.0

6

2.7

6

2.5

6

1.8

6

2.2

6

2.6

6

1.9

6

2.2

6

2.9

5

2.6

5

2.4

5

1.8

5

2.6

5

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