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I will serve them as they come from the tap. Its not a competition on best production practice its simply what appeals the most to a broad sample of Joe/sphine Public. I really have no agenda in the whole thing other than launching Mollys and Blonde to the market, so who ever wins, wins.

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If you need help with the maths nerding I can do that.

i'll pop along and if you want to pm me contact details or your pr material i'll forward it on to a mate who's a journo

yes yes yes to maths nerding. All help is required, especially of the maths nerding variety!

I think there are two good ways to run the voting.
You will end up with 20 people voting on 5 beers. Each person puts their beers in order of preference.

You can do a Borda count where the top beer gets 5 points, the second 4 ... and last 1

Or you can do a Plurality with Elimination. Where whatever beer gets a majority wins. If no majority exists the least popular beer gets removed and its votes distributed. (this is easier then it sounds)

I think you need to decide the voting method in advance as once you know the votes you can usually pick a voting system that will let your preffered beer win. Pairwise Comparisons with the pair chosen after the voting for example are a great way to rig an election if you know what votes people have made.

I'd have thought the plurality with elimination is the way to do it, since presumably you want a clear winner, not "the best beer on average".