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Denver Beer Tasting: Round 1

Denver Beer Tasting: Round 1

It wasn't too long ago that DMC Denver celebrated Opening Day, and now it is expanding into additional office space, with an expected completion in early 2017. We're excited to gain two new conference rooms in the process!

Knowing the new rooms will follow our current theme of being named after Colorado breweries (Great Divide and Renegade are our current conference rooms), DMC Denver saw this as an opportunity to try some local brews during the naming process.

What better way could there be to name the new conferance rooms than to pit 30 Colorado breweries against each other in three intense rounds of blind taste testing?

The Competition

In order for taste testing to be fair, we decided to compare only beers of one style, and in a near unanimous vote (sorry Tim) elected the IPA as our style of choice! We then picked representative beers from each brewery.

Grid of Brewery Logos

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is the final list of breweries in contension to be imortalized as a DMC conference room, along with their respective competing IPAs:

Brewery Competing IPA
Bootstrap Insane Rush IPA
Breckenridge Lucky U IPA & IPA
Upslope IPA
Denver Beer Co. Incredible Pedal
Black Shirt Frontman
Odd13 Codename: Superfan
Tommyknocker Blood Orange IPA
Station 26 Singlehop IPA
Melvin IPA
Elevation 7437
Left Hand Extrovert
Epic Escape
Eddyline Crank Yanker
Dry Dock Grapefruit Double IPA
Oscar Blues IPA
Ska Modus Hoperandi
Odell IPA
Wonderland Hoptail
Pikes Peak Elephant Rock
Bonfire Firestarter IPA
Steamworks 3rd Eye
Odyssey IPA
Avery Maharaja
Finkel and Garf Imperial Rye IPA
Echo Mirror Image
Fort Collins Brewing Far Away
Crazy Mountain Hookiebobb IPA
Fate Moirai IPA
Copper Kettle IPA
Lone Tree Hoptree

Round 1

We completed the first round of voting over five sessions, with six or seven beers competing in each.

DMC Denver blind beer tasting

To make sure all voting was based on taste with no other bias, beer was poured into numbered steins by a designated Pour Master and then covered and rearranged by an assistant prior to each tasting.

Tasting Session

During each session, everyone cast votes for their three favorite beers of the group with ties determined by a head to head tiebreaker vote. The winners of each session are highlighted in green below.

Session 1
Bootstrap - Insane Rush IPA
Breckenridge - Lucky U IPA
Upslope - IPA
Denver Beer Co. - Incredible Pedal
Breckenridge - IPA
Black Shirt - Frontman
 
Session 2
Odd13 - Codename: Superfan
Tommyknocker - Blood Orange IPA
Station 26 - Singlehop IPA
Melvin - IPA
Elevation - 7437
Left Hand - Extrovert
 
Session 3
Epic - Escape
Eddyline - Crankyanker
Dry Dock - Grapefruit Double IPA
Oscar Blues - IPA
Ska - Modus Hoperandi
Odell - IPA
 
Session 4
Wonderland - Hoptail
Pikes Peak - Elephant Rock
Bonfire - Firestarter IPA
Steamworks - 3rd Eye
Odyssey - IPA
Avery - Maharaja
 
Session 5
Finkel & Garf - Imperial Rye IPA
Echo - Mirror Image
Fort Collins Brewing - Far Away
Crazy Mountain - Hookiebobb IPA
Fate - Moirai IPA
Copper Kettle - IPA
Lone Tree - Hoptree

The Contenders 

Some strong contendors identifed in the first round were Frontman made by Black Shirt Brewering Co, which earned eight out of nine possible votes. Codename: Superfan made by Odd13 Brewing Inc., Singlehop IPA by Station 26 brewing copmany, and Odyssey Beerwerlk's IPA were also popular choices.

Tasting Session 4

Denver had a blast tasting all of these delicious IPAs, and with the field now narrowed to 15 hoppy brews, we look forward to determining the winners in two more rounds of voting!  

Session 1 Results

Stay tuned for rounds two and three when we will determine our new conference room names!

Check out more fun stuff going on at DMC here!

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