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I took a few mins this morning to sort out our local winners... don't think anyone else posted the full local list yet.

PEI Brewing Company's Sir John A's Honey Wheat Ale won a medal again, taking home silver
Acadie-Broue Inc's Tintamarre won bronze
Halifax's Rockbottom Brewpub won a bronze with its Insidious IBA
Propeller Brewing Co. won a silver with their Bohemian-Style Pilsener
Pump House won a silver and two bronze with their Premium Lager, Pail Ale, and Blueberry Ale, respectively
From Moosehead Breweries - Alpine Lager and Alpine Light each won gold, Moosehead Lager won silver, and Cracked Canoe Premium Light Lager won a bronze

Thanks for posting! I'll post the results on the Blog asap.

No prob. Eleven medals ain't too shabby. Something tells me it's the same Atl. Cdn total as last year?
I wonder how many brews in total from here were submitted (incl. NL).

No Garrison!

Brewnoser wrote:No Garrison!

No entries? I don't think Picaroons entered either, and they won BOTY in 2011. BUT, they announced Freddy will host the Gala Awards Dinner/Conference next year, which I think is terrific, as some of us can go and cheer on Maritime beer.

Brewnoser wrote:No Garrison!

Too many floaties...

New category! Foreign objects.

mr x wrote:New category! Foreign objects.

The judge's task is to guess correctly what exactly is floating in the beer.

I find it hard to believe Garrison or Picaroons would not have entered a single beer. Just didn't have anything medal-worthy, would be my guess.

Both were present at the CBAs for some collab brew.

http://phillipsbeer.com/canadian-collab

chalmers wrote:I find it hard to believe Garrison or Picaroons would not have entered a single beer. Just didn't have anything medal-worthy, would be my guess.

Well, after cleaning up in 2011, Picaroons has probably been saving marketing money for other things. I know other breweries have done that, as do wineries in the wine competitions I judge. Take a year off, let someone else win

But we could always directly ask both breweries if they entered and, if not, why not?

Guys, no mystery here, sometimes it just doesn't happen. Almost 800 entries means 85% don't medal. Garrison typically gets 3-5 & Picaroon's was 2011 Brewery of the Year - both went to Vic & came back empty. Phillip's is on fire in BC & was a gracious host for the weekend - also blanked. The event is increasingly about the conference, trade show & networking - & some amazing beer of course. Regardless, I saved TAPS the postage & I'm off to hand Rockbottom & Propeller their bronze & silver. Next year - Fredericton! Cheers, Brian

Garrison Brewing wrote:Guys, no mystery here, sometimes it just doesn't happen. Almost 800 entries means 85% don't medal. Garrison typically gets 3-5 & Picaroon's was 2011 Brewery of the Year - both went to Vic & came back empty. Phillip's is on fire in BC & was a gracious host for the weekend - also blanked. The event is increasingly about the conference, trade show & networking - & some amazing beer of course. Regardless, I saved TAPS the postage & I'm off to hand Rockbottom & Propeller their bronze & silver. Next year - Fredericton! Cheers, Brian

Thanks for clarifying, Brian. And I am so excited about Fredericton next year! You are totally right about how hard it is to win. That's because there is only 1 Gold, 1 Silver, 1 Bronze in each category, and I bet some cats get 20-30 entries, maybe more. The national wine comps I judge at give multiple medals just for this reason (we judged 1300 entries this week - and some categories had over 60 entries - I judged 54 Meritages in one go! Can you imagine the anger if we only gave 3 medals out of 54, when 25-30 of them were excellent wines?), and then give a best of class to the highest scorer in each category. I think the beer comp should be done the same way. I bet there is no statistical difference between the average scores of many of the non-medalling beers compared to the Bronze winners.

Here is an example of what I mean about multiple medals. Check out the winners in this list from the comp I judged last week. Note the Atlantic winners too!

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