ILX DRINK Fight Nomination/ Question Thread

13. Corona

*first ILE thread, I mean

YUENGLING

PBR

16. Murphy's Stout

17. Peroni

dos equis
honey brown
milwaukees best
harp
magic hat #9
newcastle

whatever it is that's a "bitter" at the down the road from my uncle's

Super Bock

Tecate

Summer Lightning

Shiner Bock

Timothy Taylor Landlord

amstel light
stella artois
anchor steam

Dixie

Beck's

Hoegaarden (lol)

and Leffe, its superior

Sam Adams Boston Lager

fat tire

and Erdinger

Sapporo

Red Stripe XD

This is going to be a solid 32

NOT Fosters

Heineken

Yeah, I'm good with excluding Fosters

Stone IPA

Kinda wishin' this was a pan-alcoholic thing, 8-10 spots out of 64 reserved for beer styles.

ten ppl have had stone

you think? We can totally do that, too. Might be more interesting. Would certainly include more people.

Can we get a mod to change the title to represent this?

NOT FUCKING Carling, or Boddington's, or any English lager ever

Kinda wishin' this was a pan-alcoholic thing, 8-10 spots out of 64 reserved for beer styles.

Thought this could be an all-beverage fight. Maybe do a separate one for juices then pit the two winners together?

Ten people have had Stone

Yes, but FIVE of them are ME, so it bears inclusion.

Alright, so - pan-alco -

Lager
Pilsner
Stout
Porter
IPA
Barleywine

Trappist Ale
American Lager

Bitter

Any others bear inclusion (except for lambics or other fruit beers)?

belgian

oh wait you had trappist

pan-alco idea otm

love beer the most but this would get 3x the participation

My liver and Marxist science tell me not to mix the alcohols and the non-alcohols.

10 beers, 15 wines, 20 base liquors, then liqueurs, cordials, bitters, etc

Just throwin' ideas out there.

lots of xposts, you guys have moved past my thinking already

lambic in the beers for sure!

and for other participants:

Red Wine -
Cabernet
Syrah/Shiraz
Zinfindel

White Wine -
Chardonnay
Pinot Grigio
Sauvignon Blanc

Port

Bourbon

Irish Whiskey

Scotch

Canadian Whiskey

Manhattan

Martini

Margarita

Cosmopolitan

Mimosa

Bloody Mary

Chelada

Caipirinha

Mojito

Cuba Libre

So, no cocktails?

cocktails are a good idea

I think so, too. I mean, we had hard cheese and pizza in the last one, right?

key hard alcohols + key cocktails

Specific drink recipes? I dunno, seems like they'd be overpowered in Rd 1.

Like I say, I'm tossing ideas like end-of-pub-crawl cookies, I bow to whatever the final decisions are without complaint.

mojito will win the poll, though, and deservedly too

wmc change the title already!

also guys

SCRUMPY

that is all

no one is "forced" to vote in these things tho!

it's not like we lose ilx points for not partaking in a poll.

forced in the sense that, if they have opinions on 3 of the matchups and haven't tried the other two, they either have to not vote or vote for something they're unfamiliar with

would look like:

Hard Cheeses, Berries, Eggs, Tacos
Hard Cheeses, Berries, Eggs, Chocolate
Hard Cheeses, Berries, Eggs, (Pass)
Hard Cheeses, Berries, Ice Cream, Tacos
Hard Cheeses, Berries, Ice Cream, Chocolate
Hard Cheeses, Berries, (Pass), Chocolate
Hard Cheeses, Soup, Eggs, Tacos
Hard Cheeses, Soup, Eggs, Chocolate
Hard Cheeses, Soup, (Pass), Chocolate

etc.

aaaahhh - i c whachew mean

too many cocktails in the list. i mean, sex on the beach, who drinks that?

also needs:

perry aka pear cider
wheat beer
port
alcopops

port lol u british

does alcopops include md2020?

Cider/Scrumpy/Perry is essential, it would be like leaving apples off the food poll.

More leftfield:

Fortified Wine (Buckie etc)
Amaretto
Pernod

Fortified Wine (Buckie etc)

make that "low end fortified wine" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-end_fortified_wine, that'll do for mad dog too. alcopops are much classier.

what are the top alcopops these days? *reminisces on news features abt 'hooch'*

breezers I guess. is smirnoff ice an alcopop?

the only one worth considering.

in the past month or so (that hadn't been listed)

san miguel
estrella damm
blue moon
sam smith's alpine lager (formerly ayingerbräu)
sam smith's wheat beer (formerly ayingerbräu Hefe Weiss)
asahi
budvar
budvar dark
st peter's organic ale
st peter's golden ale
sierra nevada porter

surely the final 64 needs to come from a league (poll) from each group?

Beers
Cocktails
Wine
Spirits

and the allocation of the 64 will be based on the coefficient for each group? (based on total votes in each category's poll)

that would be 16/16/16/16 right? I don't think there are enough 'types of beer'/'types of spirits' that would be universally familiar. might work with individual beers or spirits.

MEAD

oh and SOJU

Amaretto

HOLY SHIT THIS^^^^^^^^

So, I'll have this up this evening. I'm running a little behind today, due to a broken hot water heater. AWESOME!

Here's a list of 16 beer styles, along with potential representative brands:

IPA (Lagunitas IPA)
Pale ale (Sierra Nevada Pale Ale)
American lager (Budweiser)
German lager (Paulaner)
Stout (Guinness)
Porter (Fuller's London Porter)
Wheat (Hoegaarden)
Lambic (Lindemans Framboise)
Malt liquor (Olde English)
Brown ale (Newcastle)
Bitter (Fuller's ESB)
Pilsner (Pilsner Urquell)
Trappist (Chimay)
Red/amber ale (Smithwick's)
Blonde ale (Leffe Blonde)
Barleywine (Sierra Nevada Bigfoot)

(Feel free to quibble with this.)

would the "spirits" bracket include liqueurs?

or would you just break it down like for example:

rum
tequila
vodka
gin
scotch
brandy
bourbon
whiskey
congac
schnapps
jenever
mezcal
ouzo
armagnac
chiew
applejack

(pulled from here: http://www.physics.uq.edu.au/people/nieminen/spirits.html )

i think this is just too much. an all encompassing booze poll, i mean...

the food poll was a mishmash of ingredients, specific foods, and whole dish-styles. i guess that kind of works for booze too, in some ways, since, say 'drambuie' and 'chartreuse' are brands as well as the only thing of its kind.

but man, i dunno.

as someone who deals with categorizing information and someone who loves to drink this is really bugging me out

unicum vs malört would be kind of fantastic, particularly if you had to taste-test before voting

http://www.flickr.com/groups/malortface/pool/

haha @ ^^^^

again I think a (pass) option is key here

I'mna bet there's nobody here who will have tried all 64, no matter what we end up with

fully support jaymc's 16 btw

ONE example for each is a great idea too

ha i bet i will have tried all 64, but i realize that i am a special case

Alright, I'm going to work this thing up.

Its going to be an all-alcoholic bevs poll, out of the interest of seeing a good bit of trans-category conflict.

I'm going to keep jaymc's 16 beers.

Alright - the brackets have been completed. First groups going up now.

tbf this one actually had a definitive answer

Freal tho fuck unicum