![]() Wednesday, April 8, First Round West Coast Flagship Games GAME 1, 1980s Player: ESB, fifth seed Voting for today’s flagship battles ends at 11:45 p.m. OK, let’s apply hand sanitizer, and dive into today’s First Round Tournament of Beer: West Coast Flagships battles. The following are advancing to the Second Round: This extra push could have been the deciding factor, with Chuckanut Pilsner edging out Ninkasi and its popular Total Domination by 34 votes. It’s our guess Chuckanut owners and the most charming people you’ll ever meet, Will and Mari Kemper, must have paraded through Bellingham offering face masks and showing off their new packaging - beautiful bottles. Only one game yesterday was close, a back-and-forth battle from the opening buzzer to the final growler fill, changing leads several times. Georgetown might consider sitting Manny’s down with their Bodhizafa for a little one-on-one Zen session. Georgetown Manny’s Pale earned its number one seed for many reasons, but it still squeaked by Green Flash with 55 percent of the votes. By claiming the name, this beer helped “put the West Coast on the map,” as Green Flash use to say. ![]() Green Flash’s double IPA is a flag in the sand for the style of beer that helped solidify San Diego as the home of the West Coast-Style IPA. The nice thing about a number one seed is it usually means you have a paddy-cake game the first round. In this contest, Tacoma ruled the day with E9 Brewing securing roughly 59 percent of the vote and a spot in the Second Round. However, hometown heroes status also goes long way - and E9 Brewing is Tacoma’s first brewery. Serving high-gravity and barrel-aged beers to intoxicated masses in Portland during the 1990s is business genius, probably why Hair of the Dog did it. You can’t question Scuttlebutt Amber’s following, and sometimes a following is just what it takes in the Tournament of Beer. Scuttlebutt Ambe rĭespite a late push from Boundary Bay fans, Scuttlebutt Brewing and its large, devoted beer following held the lead, sending their Amber into the Second Round with 54 percent of the votes. Today marks Day Four of the tournament.įirst, we present a recap of yesterday’s action followed by eight new flagships hitting the court today. For three weeks, the 64 will battle March Madness style until the championship game Saturday, April 25. Peaks & Pints took the top 64 voted-in flagships, divided them into four decade regions - 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2010s - and ranked them according to the number of nominations. They were packed with hops at a time America was drowning in a sea of bland domestic lagers. Far from boring, those flavorful brews blew brewers’ and consumers’ minds when they were released. The Peaks & Pints Tournament of Beer: West Coast Flagships celebrates the wonder years of craft beer, championing the pioneering beers that paved the way for the endlessly experimental beers of today. That time, for us, was the 1980s in Seattle when we caught New Wave bands at the Eagle Auditorium in Seattle, punk rocks bands at Gorilla Gardens in the International District, and drank all the Redhook ESB. A time where some brewery helmed by some man or woman had to innovate and actually create these things, and thus change the entire industry forevermore. ![]() Now that they’re ubiquitous, it’s hard to remember there was once a time where double IPAs, bourbon barrel-aged stouts, and extremely flavorful beers simply didn’t exist. Tournament of Beer: West Coast Flagships First Round April 8 ![]()
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