![]() ![]() For example, there was no South Central site in 2019, Minneapolis did not host a First-Round judge center in 2017 because it was the host city for Homebrew Con that year, and Milwaukee has alternated with Chicago as a First-Round judge center. That’s a three-year average of 708 entries per judge center per year. There are a few reasons why some judge centers tend to attract more entries than others:Īll but three sites have had more than 650 entries in the past three years across 12 or 13 regions. What stands out here is that there is solid representation across all First-Round judge centers. Despite the fact that judging locations, the Homebrew Con location, and NHC category groupings change every year, it’s still valuable to examine.įirst, I broke out the total entry count by region. RegionĪs a final area to analyze, I looked at overall entry counts across the competition over the last three years. Specifically, the Southeast and Mountain West tend to send fewer entries relative to their percentage of AHA membership, whereas the Southwest and Great Lakes send more. That said, a few regions participate more than you’d expect based on the number of members in that region, and others participate a bit less. First, NHC tends to draw entrants from all parts of the country in line with the number of AHA members in that region. I’ve used the 10 standard Federal regions as a basis for dividing up the states, with International added as an 11th region. The graph below shows NHC entries by region compared to AHA membership around the country. But what does regional participation look like? OK, we’ve established that number of entries broadly translates into number of medals won. ![]() Quality still wins in a battle of attrition, so don’t presume that larger homebrewing states will necessarily win, or that states geographically nearer the Final Round will have an advantage. That’s more than all other states but three.Īlthough number of entries broadly translates into number of medals won, you’ll notice that Colorado (4 medals) and Texas (3 medals) did not make the cut, while Ohio, Arizona, and Washington all nudged their way into the top five. However, Arizona homebrewers took home 5.88 percent of all NHC medals. Arizona ranked 26th in overall entry count with 101 entries, accounting for just 1.1 percent of all NHC entries. Who did over-perform? It’s worth highlighting Arizona. California, New York, and Pennsylvania accounted for 26.4 percent of all NHC entries and took home 27.5 percent of all NHC medals. No top-entry-count state greatly over-performed this year. While some of the top entry count states made the cut, you’ll notice a few did not: Stateįor these leading states, it’s clear that medals are geographically widely distributed across the country. Here are the top five states by medal count. However, we see that number of entries does not necessarily correlate to number of medals. It’s reasonable to conclude that the top five states for entrants and entry count would win the most medals, as they’d have the greatest odds of winning based on percentage of entries in the competition. Here are the top five states by entrant and entry count. ![]() The best predictor of the number of medals a state wins is how many beers were entered from that state, without considering which categories entries were entered in to. As we see this year, there is no relationship between distance from the event and the likelihood of winning. Statesįirst, let’s dispel a common myth: that some states have an advantage at NHC due to their geographic locations. The category data do not directly compare one year to the next because of changes in groupings, but we can still learn much from analyzing it. some people may have moved), but the trends should nonetheless closely reflect reality. The specific numbers may not be 100 percent accurate (e.g. I’ll begin with the caveat that the geographic data presented here is what we have when we open the competition, not the data at the end of the competition. It’s also time for a recap of the National Homebrew Competition (NHC), the largest beer competition in the world! You can find the full list of 2019 NHC winners here. It’s August, the time of year to think about which refreshing summer fruit beers to cool off with, whether rosé beers should be year-round, and what the difference is between low-calorie and low-alcohol beer. ![]()
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