# Beer Madness, The Elite 8 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [May 10, 2008, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-madness-the-elite-8/448762 "2008-05-10T00:24:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ender\_Will](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Ender\_Will](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ender_Will)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2008, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-madness-the-elite-8/448762/21 "2008-05-12T23:45:34Z")
Best Sellers: 4 Rolling Rock Bargain Basement: 9 Killian’s Irish Red Import: 8 Guinness Craft/Microbrew: 10 Anchor Steam Ale Blue Moon’s brewed by Coors. Doesn’t that DQ it from “craft/microbrew” contention? ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-madness-the-elite-8/448762/22 "2008-05-13T00:49:12Z")
[QUOTE=Ender\_Will] Blue Moon’s brewed by Coors. Doesn’t that DQ it from “craft/microbrew” contention? [/QUOTE] Many of the original beers in the craft/microbrew category are actually brewed by larger brewing companies. The list I used to make the original list divided the beers in 4 categories, popular/general, import, craft/microbrew and fortified/malt. For the purpose of this contest, I divided the popular into 2 categories and did not included one with the fortified crap, the best seller only ranks 54th in sales. Blue Moon Brewery is actually a division of Coors and it’s products are listed in the craft/microbrew category. Coors also brews Molson in Canada and imports it into the US. ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-madness-the-elite-8/448762/23 "2008-05-13T02:44:59Z")
[QUOTE=Jas09] **MikeG** : I’m confused… if Guinness is the “finest beer ever brewed by man” (which I agree with, BTW), why did you vote for Bass? [/QUOTE] How the hell did that happen?!?!?! Emailing my favorite mod to see if anything can be done, I swear I checked that three times! ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-madness-the-elite-8/448762/24 "2008-05-13T12:48:09Z")
[QUOTE=MikeG] How the hell did that happen?!?!?! Emailing my favorite mod to see if anything can be done, I swear I checked that three times! [/QUOTE] I’ll change your vote to Guinness when I tabulate the results. Thanks to those that voted in the Elite 8, I will count the votes and post the final 4 tonight. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-madness-the-elite-8/448762/25 "2008-05-13T23:21:59Z")
Official results for the Elite Eight: Best sellers: 11 Yuengling 13 vs. 4 Rolling Rock 6 Bargain Basement: 9 Killian’s Irish Red 15, 13 Rainier 4 Imports: 8 Guinness 12, Bass Pale Ale 7 Craft/Microbrews: 10 Anchor Steam Ale 13, 4 Blue Moon Belgium White 6 The final 4 will be posted soon. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beer-madness-the-elite-8/448762.md?page=1)