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"sbillings":remuh6ip wrote: I look forward to the warm glow of schadenfreude [/quote:remuh6ip]

I haven't tried that; is it a Schneider beer?

"rebel":22dxpcp6 wrote: If for example MM Imperial stout wins overall it is the best beer and stout in Ireland. No need to give two awards.A lager is unlikely to win but something like Porterhouses Herbsbrucker get best lager and only finishes 10th, it is still better than H or other macro rubbish. get the ordinary punter drinking the best craft lager.[/quote:22dxpcp6]Point taken. But on the other hand I would have [i:22dxpcp6]real[/i:22dxpcp6] trouble trying to meaningfully arrange even a top three of the lagers in that list. Plus, not all categories are equal. You'd have to ignore the wheatbeers, and I'd rather be encouraging brewers to make these rather than lager.