The Battle of the Breweries

Its March 1st and that means The Battle of the Breweries is ready to kick off! We have already hosted the Primary Qualifiers to select the 32nd seed for each conference. And so now begins the full fledged tournament, with all 128 breweries competing to see who will become the ultimate Battle of the Breweries Champion for this year!

The first round – The Round of 32 – will last until the end of Sunday March 10th, at 11:59:59 PM EST. And the second round will begin on Monday, March 11th around 9AM EST.

The Battle of the Breweries (2024) is set up with four conferences of 32 (counting the “win and you’re in” brewery) for a total of 128 breweries in the main tournament (140 participating breweries in total). They will compete in single elimination rounds (Best of 32, Best of 16, Best of 8, Final Four, Finals) for each conference, before each conference will send their winner to the “Finals Fatal Four-Way” to determine the winner of this year’s Battle of the Breweries.

Breweries will be competing from Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, Arizona, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia.

You can see our previous topics about the tournament for this year here:

• The Battle of the Breweries (2024)
• The Battle of the Breweries (2024): Participating Breweries
• The Battle of the Breweries (2024): Conferences and Participating Breweries
• The Battle of the Breweries (2024): Preliminary Qualifiers (Voting Page)

We encourage you to go onto social media and share this post, as well as to follow our Facebook, Instagram, and other pages to stay up to date on the tournament. You can vote once per day for each conference’s blocks (once we’re in the main tournament, each conference will have their own distinct article). So to better your favorite (or your own personal) brewery’s chances of winning – we highly recommend sharing and letting all of your friends and family (and even your enemies) know to vote for you.

You can follow along with us on Facebook and Instagram.

The Rules

There’s gotta be some kind of rules to this madness right? This madness of March (and well, this year the end of February as well… and yes… also a bit of April as the tournament goes into that month as well). So… what are the rules involved?

To pull straight from the initial March Madness / Battle of the Breweries post:

So how’s this going to work? Who all is invited? What all breweries are going to be in it? How many breweries? How’s voting going to work? Who decides whose in and whose out? Whats the seeding? Why is Rick such a jerk to Morty? Why is Jurassic Bark the saddest episode of Futurama ever?  Why is the sky blue?

Ok…. enough with the questions!

March Madness (2021) – The Battle of the Breweries (2021)

Breweries are selected from breweries that have been visited by The Beer Thrillers staff.

Voting Rules

You can vote once per day, for each conference. Each day you can visit each of the Conference Articles and scroll down to the voting block, and vote once for each brewery duel. Each day you will be able to come to the site to make your votes in the polls. It will be set-up by IPS, so it limits you to voting just once per day per vote. You can vote as many times as you want per round, but only once per day.

We encourage you to share on all of your various social media accounts the pages to help maximize the votes your favorite brewery (or breweries) will receive.

Schedule of Rounds

• Preliminary Qualifiers: February 26th – February 29th
• Round of 32: March 1st – March 10th
• Round of 16: March 11th – March 17th
• Round of 8: March 18th – March 24th
• Round of 4: March 25th – March 31st
• Conference Finals: April 1st – 7th
• Finals Fatal Four-Way: April 8th – April 14th

VOTE HERE

The time is now to choose which breweries move on! The first round is the Conference Round of 32. There is sixteen battles for you to vote in (you are not required to vote in each one). After selecting your choices, hit End Survey and off we go. You get to decide who moves on to the Conference Round of 16!