2000 Swill-Off

The Wizard’s first ever Swill-Off was held in conjunction with the club’s 2000 summer picnic. The idea was simple – compare and contrast some of the most popular commercial beers of today.

Judging was done in a blind tasting by six different judges. AHA score sheets were used as a means of guiding the tasting and were used to collect comments about the individual beers. The overall score is the summation of the six judge’s ordinal rankings.

The Gold Medal went to Ballantine Ale, the silver medal to Moslon Canadian and the bronze went to Budweiser. It is most interesting the Gold Medal beer, Ballantine Ale, was an ale while all the other beers sampled were lagers. Was the club showing a preference for ales or was it just a better beer? After a brief discussion the judges concluded it was, in fact, the best of the lot.

Finally, our apologies to those who didn’t score as well as they might have. Better luck next time.