Beers of the World 5 - Round Z

Bickaxe · 25 Oct 2021 at 10:15

Hi everyone,

Rules: Beers of the World - Mk 5 *** RULES AND SIGNUP HERE ***

Z - Zoological - Must have an animal on label or in the name
Bonus pts - 3 pts if your beer has a mythical creature in the image (Brewery logo's do not count)

Leaderboard

A win for @weringo, congratulations. Check your email.
You will also start the next competition on -5pts because there are always side effects with drinking.

Thank you to everyone that entered, hope your horizons have been broadened.
I'll post some stats later on.

Entries

Quite a few re-submissions as most of you decided to capitalise on the extra bonus points on offer.
A couple I couldn't quite decipher or the information wasn't available so I went with best fit.

Beers of the World will be back for Round 6 (ish) next year

Bickaxe · 25 Oct 2021 at 10:19

Crocodile Tiers from DEYA. I really enjoyed this DIPA, soft mouthfeel and you don't realise its 8%. Would definitely have it again. 4.21 on Untappd and well worth it.

Martynt74 · 25 Oct 2021 at 10:21

That's a very credible effort from from a few people. If only @Ahleckz had saved his jester for this round.....

Congratulations @weringo. I will strive to do better next time!

Mine was poor, very very poor

Ahleckz · 25 Oct 2021 at 10:33

Argh! I’ve got that super cold, so I’ll blame that for my terrible decision.

I reentered my A beer, which I feel is apt. We’ve come full circle!

Well done @weringo , if you’re in Shoreditch during the last weekend of November, send me a trust and I’ll buy you a pint!

Charlie Bravo · 25 Oct 2021 at 10:47

Well done to all (esp @weringo ) and many thanks to Mark for hosting.

It's the first year I've entered and I'll definitely do it again.
I've still got a lot of my entries to drink and the ones that I have already had, have been an education to say the least. Some where nice, others beyond disgusting. My Holiday entry was Christmas Bomb! that set me back £13.90

It was truly awful but I downed it because it was £13.90 :cry:

Anyway, my final entry was this, but I'm in no rush to open it...

Bickaxe · 25 Oct 2021 at 11:26

Stats time!

291 beers were entered

Most Common Beer: King Queen Knave (Pressure Drop)
Most Common Brewery: BrewDog
Most Common Style: Sour

Top 10 Highest Rated beers.

6 of the 10 were from @weringo

Top 10 Worst Beers

Hardly surprising that half of these were No Alcohol.

Top 10 Strongest beers

I think @Repta has a preference here, but all are well rated too.

Martynt74 · 25 Oct 2021 at 11:40

Man i'd forgotten how good that French Martini beer was!

Weringo has definitely been having the most enjoyment, i'd say about half of my beers i'd never drink again!

Sonea Fifer · 25 Oct 2021 at 15:55

This was my entry for round Z:

My original entry was the same as my round X but like many others I resubmitted for the additional points.

Congratulations to @weringo for the win, and many thanks to @Bickaxe for taking the time to run this once again.

As for the above beer was quite well balanced for a sour but still pretty much rates as an average Brewdog beer for me and it's certainly one I would not buy again!

touch · 25 Oct 2021 at 16:59

I also resubmitted one of my previous entries. I had something else planned but based on the mythical creature bonus I chose this instead:

Repta · 25 Oct 2021 at 18:48

Bickaxe said:
Stats time!

I think @Repta has a preference here, but all are well rated too.

Haha my fridge is full of mainly 10+% beers

Cheers for organising, been great fun and a good excuse to buy more beer!

My entry wasn't great but never had a Jamaican beer so had to try it.

Russinating · 26 Oct 2021 at 14:10

Great round guys, well done everyone.

@Bickaxe, would love to buy you a pint, as I'm sure some others would. What's your PayPal or other preferred method of virtual-pint-receiving?

Bickaxe · 26 Oct 2021 at 15:08

Russinating said:
Great round guys, well done everyone.

@Bickaxe, would love to buy you a pint, as I'm sure some others would. What's your PayPal or other preferred method of virtual-pint-receiving?

I'll have to refuse that one thank you, what you have all done is review a bunch of beers that I may never get round to trying (especially sours but the missus now had a list) so that's thanks enough. I enjoyed seeing what people came up with.

Also, Weringo got a beer voucher for winning so it seems a little pointless to effectively return that to me.

weringo · 26 Oct 2021 at 19:13

Awesome job organising this @Bickaxe. The bonus points were a great added element although ended up costing me a lot of money as I had to order a certain number of beers to meet the minimum delivery threshold, but had to do this on a weekly basis once the criteria was announced

. The beer tokens were a very nice surprise so thanks for that! Would love to chip in for a beer advent calendar or something as a thank you for your hard work.

Here was my entry for the weekend. Originally entered Pastore DDH Denari but was told by my gf that the picture is probably an eagle and not mythical, so foretunately found this one at the pub at 3pm on Saturday

Ahleckz said:
Well done @weringo , if you’re in Shoreditch during the last weekend of November, send me a trust and I’ll buy you a pint!

Alas I'll be away that weekend in Germany hopefully enjoying some more beers!

Feek · 26 Oct 2021 at 19:51

This was my awful submission.

Thank you @Bickaxe for running this. I appreciate you taking all my non-beer related entries to a beer competition, it's been a lot of fun.

And I wasn't last

Martynt74 · 27 Oct 2021 at 10:57

weringo said:
Awesome job organising this @Bickaxe. The bonus points were a great added element although ended up costing me a lot of money as I had to order a certain number of beers to meet the minimum delivery threshold, but had to do this on a weekly basis once the criteria was announced . The beer tokens were a very nice surprise so thanks for that! Would love to chip in for a beer advent calendar or something as a thank you for your hard work.

Agreed the bonus points were a great idea.

I guess that level of effort explains why you were top and i was bottom

In fact, @Bickaxe in your stats, is there any kind of alternative table if you ignored bonus points to see if anything changes?

Bickaxe · 27 Oct 2021 at 10:59

Martynt74 said:
In fact, @Bickaxe in your stats, is there any kind of alternative table if you ignored bonus points to see if anything changes?

@Ahleckz would have won.

Martynt74 · 27 Oct 2021 at 14:07

Haha there's something amusing about that. Sorry @Ahleckz

Good to see i'd still be last though!

Feek · 27 Oct 2021 at 14:17

Martynt74 said:
Good to see i'd still be last though!

nearly last*

Martynt74 · 27 Oct 2021 at 14:24

Feek said:
nearly last*

I don't count you and @Lysander though.

In the context of this competition, not in general