"Beer bracket" 2011

A buddy and I (after a few brews of our own) decided to come up with a "beer bracket" to coincide with the NCAA tourney. Feel free to join and vote on the message board:

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Just to get the discussion going, here is the bracket. Maybe I am drunk...but this was fun:

North
1 Bud
16 KBC's Widow Maker or Leiny's Sunset Wheat

8 Carlsberg
9 Great Lakes Burning River

5 Blue Moon
12 St. Pauli Girl

4 Red Stripe
13 Herforder Summer Brau

6 Beck's
11 Budweiser American Ale

3 Heinikan
14 Hoegaarden

7 Bass
10 Hacker-schorr

2 MGD
15 Anchor Steam Beer


West
1 Coors Light
16 Stone IPA

8 Labbatt's Blue Light
9 Old Style

5 Yungeling
12 Land Shark

4 Rolling Rock
13 Spaten Pilsner

6 Amstel
11 Sam Adam's Cherry Wheat

3 Michelob Ultra
14 Old English

7 Harp
10 Modelo

2 Busch Light
15 Magic Hat No. 9

BOTTOM HALF

East
1 Bud Light
16 Iron City Beer or Woodchuck

8 Shock Top or Fat Tire
9 Stroh's or PBR

5 Molson Canadian
12 Great Lakes Elliott Ness

4 Bell's Oberon
13 Goose Island 312

6 Smithwicks
11 Leiny's Honeyweise

3 Guinness
14 Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald

7 Newcastle
10 Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA

2 Corona
15 Stone Arrogant Bastard Ale

South
1 Miller Light
16 River City Mad Manatee

8 Molson XXX
9 Bell's Two Hearted Ale

5 Stella Artois
12 Foster's

4 Sam Adams Boston Lager
13 Bell's Cream Stout

6 Dos Equis
11 Sapporo

3 Killian's
14 Lowenbrau

7 Shiner Bock
10 Sierra Nevada Pale Ale

2 Labatt's Blue
15 Harpoon IPA

NIT (The NIT was (Not "I"nough Taste)
Miller High Life
Milwaukee's Best
Milwaukee Grand Special Reserve
Hamms
Mickey's
King Cobra
Camo
Natty Ice
Red Dog
Keystone Light
Schiltz
Colt 45
Black Label
Tecate

 

Upset in the making between Bud and Sunset Wheat.

 

Dogfish Head 90 a 10 seed? That beer is Tark's UNLV squad. You figure its so good there has to be something illegal going on.

 

We seeded No. 1s first, then started from 16 up and then went back to the 2s and ended up splitting up the 5/6s at the end. Yes, we are drunk...but we hope it's close. A few of the play-in games were hard to decide.

PS. This is what happens when you crack a beer at 5 pm and by 9 decide...'Yeah, let's do this...'

It took 4 hours...but it's was fun to argue the seedings. And the samples we had from the "teams" available were fun too.

 

Coors Light is a 1 seed!?! You had to be drunk when you made this list.

 

Guinness with a 3 seed?! That's worse than the Coors Light 1 seed.

 

Man ... this could be an all 15 and 16 seed Final Four. And a second-round matchup between Arrogant Bastard and Dogfish Head 90-Minute? That's like Bird vs. Magic.

I'd better stop.

 

There is no freaking way Sunset Wheat is a 16 seed. I couldn't get past the first pairing.

 

Play-in game at that!

 

Seeded by ubiquity, not quality, no doubt.

 

I've got Sun King, Three Floyd's and Chimay in the CBI.