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Table Of Results | A Little Bit About Beer
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mauditeThe Spring Festival Of Small Breweries

Our inaugural Spring Festival Of Small Breweries on Friday April 15, 2005 was well attended by both the serious and curious. There were thirty-five craft brews from which to choose. With a stellar line up of interesting beer, some of the standard fare was passed over by the crowds intent on sampling the new and untried.

  • Unibroue Maudite finished at the head of the pack with a new record median score of 45 out of 50. McAuslan has already received a lifetime achievement award so we won't bother with an Award Of Excellence for finishing second with a rating of 44 on their hall of fame quality St. Ambroise Oatmeal Stout. Perennial favourites C'est What Coffee Porter, Blanche de Chambly, Denison's Weissbier, St. Ambroise Apricot Wheat, and Mill St. Tankhouse Pale Ale all received scores of forty or more but did not qualify for placing as they were not rated by enough tasters to be considered.
  • As usual, little fault was found in the thirty-five sampled with none scoring under thirty-one. As one taster put it, "Although... came last, it - and everything else - is head-and-shoulders better than anything available anywhere else in Ontario."
  • The Most Curious award for the most tasted beer goes to Durham Blak Katt. The Scotch Irish Corporal Punishment gone AWOL and renamed Captain Cascade and Black Oak Double Chocolate Cherry Stout were close behind in interest. All three scored a solid 37 finishing tied for fourth (along with four others).

Cheers!
Median scores for beers with at least 22 samples rated in rank order
Looks
Aroma
Flavour
Finish
Likeability
Total
Samples Rated

out of 4
out of 6
out of 22
out of 8
out of 10
out of 50

Unibroue Maudite
4.0
5.0
20
7.0
9.0
45.0
26

St. Ambroise Oatmeal Stout
4.0
5.0
19.0
7.0
9.0
44.0
22

Scotch Irish Sargent Major
3.0
4.0
18.0
6.5
8.0
39.5
26

Durham Blak Katt
3.0
4.0
17.0
6.0
7.0
37.0
45

Scotch Irish Captain Cascade
3.0
4.0
17.0
6.0
7.0
37.0
44

Black Oak Double Chocolate Cherry Stout
3.0
4.0
17.0
6.0
7.0
37.0
43

Trafalgar Belgian Ale
3.0
4.0
17.0
6.0
7.0
37.0
37

Denison's Dunkel
3.0
4.0
17.0
6.0
7.0
37.0
37

Unibroue Ephemere Apple
3.0
5.0
16.0
6.0
7.0
37.0
32

King Dark Lager
3.0
4.0
17.0
6.0
7.0
37.0
23

C'est What Al's Cask Ale
3.0
4.0
16.0
6.0
6.5
35.5
26

Wellington Iron Duke
3.0
4.0
16.0
6.0
6.5
35.5
22

Neustadt 10W30
3.0
3.0
17.0
6.0
6.0
35.0
28

Headstrong Pale Ale
3.0
4.0
16.0
5.0
6.0
34.0
37

Church Key Cranberry Maple Wheat
3.0
4.0
15.5
5.0
5.5
33.0
36

Granite Bitter
3.0
3.0
14.0
6.0
7.0
33.0
31

F&M Stonehammer Dark
3.0
3.0
16.0
5.0
6.0
33.0
29

True North Altbier
3.0
3.0
16.0
5.0
6.0
33.0
27

F&M McLean's Pale Ale
3.0
3.0
15.0
5.0
6.0
32.0
33

Cameron's 266 Dark
3.0
3.0
15.0
5.0
6.0
32.0
33

Neustadt Scottish Ale
3.0
3.0
15.0
5.0
6.0
32.0
29

Amsterdam Spring Bock
3.0
3.0
14.5
5.0
6.0
31.5
28

Church Key Chocolate Porter
3.0
4.0
14.0
5.0
5.0
31.0
29

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