ILX DRINK Fight Nomination/ Question Thread

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