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\"Neon<\/a>
Statistically-nicely done, ParrotDog<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Last weekend gave us a fresh round of #BGONZAs<\/a> \u2014 the Brewers’ Guild of New Zealand Awards.<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span>\u00a0Continuing the new practice they started last year, the Guild has provided us not just with a list of who\u00a0won<\/em> what, but a full accounting of who\u00a0tried to<\/em><\/a>. So, like I did last time<\/a>, I spent an oddly-enjoyable afternoon spreadsheeting and pivoting and entabulating the results and present them now for a little look behind the curtain at how the newly-expanded list of “Champions” are crowned, and to ponder the many different ways there are in which to succeed, and to fall short. There’s a lot<\/em> going on \u2014 the awards, after all, cover most of the industry \u2014 but I think there’s a lot of interesting little details lurking.<\/p>\n

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My method is just as it was for 2017: ignoring ciders and packaging-related entries, I calculated two scores for each brewery<\/span>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span> \u2014 their Medal Percentage (MPC)<\/strong>, and their Points Per Entry (PPE)<\/strong>. MPC is the proportion of all beers entered that earned any kind of medal at all.<\/span>3<\/sup><\/a><\/span> This year, the overall MPC is 58% (up from 52% last year, which was apparently an increase on 2016), and roughly half the breweries did that well or better, and half fared worse. PPE, on the other hand, assigns 3 points for a gold, 2 for a silver, and 1 for a bronze,<\/span>4<\/sup><\/a><\/span> then divides that by how many beers were entered. As it was last year, a PPE of 1.0 or more put a brewery in the top third, performance-wise. If we then restrict ourselves to breweries who entered 10 or more beers \u2014 which avoids the noisier data from the smaller players but still includes all of this year’s Champions (but one, which we’ll get to) \u2014 the results look like this:<\/span>5<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Performance at the 2018 BGONZAs, for breweries with 10\u00a0or more beers entered<\/h4>\n

n = number of entries, MPC = medal percentage, PPE = points per entry, G\/S\/B = individual medals<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Brewery<\/th>n<\/th>MPC<\/th>PPE<\/th>G<\/th>S<\/th>B<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Lion<\/td>39<\/td>64.1<\/td>0.97<\/td>4<\/td>5<\/td>16<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ParrotDog<\/td>17<\/td>76.5<\/td>1.41<\/td>4<\/td>3<\/td>6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
D.B.<\/td>25<\/td>60<\/td>1.12<\/td>3<\/td>7<\/td>5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
McLeod's<\/td>17<\/td>76.5<\/td>1.47<\/td>3<\/td>6<\/td>4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8 Wired<\/td>14<\/td>71.4<\/td>1.5<\/td>3<\/td>5<\/td>2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kerer\u016b<\/td>21<\/td>57.1<\/td>1.05<\/td>3<\/td>4<\/td>5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Garage Project<\/td>33<\/td>72.7<\/td>1.06<\/td>2<\/td>7<\/td>15<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Liberty<\/td>15<\/td>86.7<\/td>1.6<\/td>2<\/td>7<\/td>4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Behemoth<\/td>16<\/td>81.3<\/td>1.38<\/td>2<\/td>5<\/td>6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fork<\/td>17<\/td>52.9<\/td>0.94<\/td>2<\/td>3<\/td>4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sawmill<\/td>14<\/td>64.3<\/td>1.07<\/td>2<\/td>2<\/td>5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Three Boys<\/td>12<\/td>50<\/td>0.92<\/td>2<\/td>1<\/td>3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Boneface<\/td>12<\/td>41.7<\/td>0.83<\/td>2<\/td>1<\/td>2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Boston Beer<\/td>19<\/td>21.1<\/td>0.42<\/td>2<\/td>0<\/td>2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Panhead<\/td>14<\/td>78.6<\/td>1.57<\/td>1<\/td>9<\/td>1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Emerson's<\/td>24<\/td>79.2<\/td>1.17<\/td>1<\/td>7<\/td>11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
North End<\/td>10<\/td>90<\/td>1.7<\/td>1<\/td>6<\/td>2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Deep Creek<\/td>25<\/td>52<\/td>0.76<\/td>1<\/td>4<\/td>8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuatara<\/td>18<\/td>61.1<\/td>0.89<\/td>1<\/td>3<\/td>7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Altitude<\/td>13<\/td>53.8<\/td>0.92<\/td>1<\/td>3<\/td>3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunshine<\/td>12<\/td>50<\/td>0.92<\/td>1<\/td>3<\/td>2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rhyme and Reason<\/td>13<\/td>53.8<\/td>0.85<\/td>1<\/td>2<\/td>4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lakeman<\/td>13<\/td>46.2<\/td>0.77<\/td>1<\/td>2<\/td>3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Moa<\/td>17<\/td>41.2<\/td>0.59<\/td>1<\/td>1<\/td>5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Boundary Road<\/td>13<\/td>30.8<\/td>0.54<\/td>1<\/td>1<\/td>2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Heyday<\/td>11<\/td>63.6<\/td>0.82<\/td>1<\/td>0<\/td>6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aotearoa (Mata)<\/td>10<\/td>60<\/td>0.8<\/td>1<\/td>0<\/td>5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Harringtons<\/td>14<\/td>57.1<\/td>1<\/td>0<\/td>6<\/td>2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dr Rudi's<\/td>10<\/td>70<\/td>1.1<\/td>0<\/td>4<\/td>3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sprig & Fern<\/td>21<\/td>47.6<\/td>0.62<\/td>0<\/td>3<\/td>7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fortune Favours<\/td>17<\/td>41.2<\/td>0.53<\/td>0<\/td>2<\/td>5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Renaissance<\/td>12<\/td>41.7<\/td>0.58<\/td>0<\/td>2<\/td>3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Eddyline<\/td>12<\/td>33.3<\/td>0.5<\/td>0<\/td>2<\/td>2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

The Guild made significant revisions to the awards this year, expanding the amount of “Champion” titles handed out \u2014 Champion New Zealand Brewery was split into three tiers based on production volume; Champion New Zealand Exhibitor was added, to recognise the best performance in “batting average” terms; and the new Champion Beer trophy was created, a sort of “Best In Show” by way of a taste-off among the trophy-winners from the eleven style categories.\u00a0I’m broadly in favour of the changes that were made, but I do think they went under-explained both in the Guild’s published materials and on the night.\u00a0So, just in case anyone wants reckons<\/em> with their data,\u00a0I’m going to go over the category winners and offer my observations.<\/p>\n

Champion International Brewery: Sam Adams<\/h4>\n
\"Boston<\/a>
Boston Beer HQ, around the time they last exported to NZ<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

No changes were made to how this category was awarded, or<\/em> who it was awarded to: the Boston Beer company got the gong, as they have in every year except\u00a0two<\/em>.\u00a0This, despite them once again being dead last on my table in performance terms \u2014 and in the bottom fifth among contestants of any size \u2014 entering 19 beers and only getting medals for 4 of them. Especially given that they have hardly any presence in the local market, I think it’s a shame (and also oddly pathetic) that they keep jamming our awards, and I wonder how many other international breweries aren’t bothering to enter\u00a0because<\/em> it’s basically guaranteed they won’t win a headline championship. Literally only two other overseas entities were in the running this year: Paradise Beverages (makers of Fiji Bitter, who entered three beers and struck out completely) and Pirate Life<\/span>6<\/sup><\/a><\/span> (which put in five beers for a very-respectable MPC of 60 and PPE of 1.2). The Guild should do more to encourage wider international participation, and changing the criteria for this category to make it more competitive would be a great start \u2014 the new Champion Exhibitor title could be the model for that…<\/span>7<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Champion New Zealand Exhibitor: Bach<\/h4>\n
\"Bach<\/a>
Bach Witsunday. (Home, with sunny day.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After going on about “batting averages at the beer awards”<\/a>, you can imagine how chuffed I was that the Guild included a category just for that, celebrating the entrant with (in my terms) the highest PPE for their beers. The only extra criterion was that medals had to be earned in two different trophy classes, and that’s what gave the gong to Bach (PPE 1.83) over Craftwork \u2014 who entered just one beer and got a silver for it, and thereby a PPE of 2.0.<\/span>8<\/sup><\/a><\/span> Bach beers\u00a0are<\/em> reliably excellent,<\/span>9<\/sup><\/a><\/span> and I think this is a great addition to the awards on offer: this is a genuine, readily-understood sense of excellence worth celebrating. The Guild probably should tighten up the criteria a\u00a0little<\/em>, though; it wouldn’t seem right for a brewery to win it with just two beers ahead of an almost-as-good performance from someone like Bach, who entered six. Perhaps a five-entry minimum could be written in \u2014 I’d even entertain the idea that it should be as high as 10<\/em>. That would still leave a third of all breweries in the running, and it’s hard not to be particularly impressed by a performance like North End’s \u2014 an MPC of 90 and a PPE of 1.7, only two places behind Bach overall.<\/p>\n

Champion Large NZ Brewery: Lion<\/h4>\n
\"Lion<\/a>
Lion, king. (This beer itself, not so much.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If the Championship hadn’t been split into three volume-based tiers, Lion would’ve been the outright winner. They and ParrotDog both won four golds, and Lion had two more silvers, which breaks the tie in their favour. There’s always an inevitable minor wailing from some circles when a “macro” wins one of these things,<\/span>10<\/sup><\/a><\/span> but it’s important to remember that these are the\u00a0beer awards<\/em>, not the\u00a0craft beer awards<\/em> \u2014 even if we could agree on a criteria to split off the latter, and even if we wanted to, this ain’t it; these are, quite rightly, open to all comers. If you don’t think there’s merit in style categories like “New Zealand lager”, where the largest companies traditionally fare particularly well, or if you think their bigness is automatically a mark against them, then you just might be a snob.<\/span>11<\/sup><\/a><\/span> And anyway, “large” is defined here so as to include more than just\u00a0the traditional triopoly of Lion, D.B., and Independent;<\/span>12<\/sup><\/a><\/span> I don’t have a\u00a0list<\/em> of who was in the running at this level (more than two million litres annual production), but the Guild tell me there were 13 breweries. Some of those will be sub-units of the “big three” (such as Panhead, Tuatara, and Boundary Road), but there’ll be at least a few “craft” \/ “independent” breweries at that scale, also.<\/p>\n

Champion Medium NZ Brewery: ParrotDog<\/h4>\n
\"ParrotDog<\/a>
ParrotDog. Best. (Bitter.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

ParrotDog<\/span>13<\/sup><\/a><\/span>\u00a0were decisively in second place overall, so they were the clear winners in this production tier \u2014 and combined that with a very impressive performance in terms of MPC and PPE; they’re sixth on my table in both of those columns. There were apparently 34 other breweries at this level, but the way the results came down don’t give us any clues about who’s “medium” and who’s “large” \u2014 you can see that competition is pretty fierce among these top two tiers, though.<\/span>14<\/sup><\/a><\/span> If D.B., McLeod’s or 8 Wired had just one<\/em> of their silver medal beers instead win a gold, they’d have taken a title. The other interesting thing about ParrotDog’s result, from my perspective, is that they had the second-best\u00a0improvement<\/em> over their 2017 results of all the breweries in the ten-or-more-entries set that I focus on; their MPC was up 23 points, while most breweries didn’t change by more than 10 points, up or down.<\/span>15<\/sup><\/a><\/span> The often-cited story about how their new brewery is doing them good<\/a> certainly gets some support from the numbers.<\/p>\n

Champion Small NZ Brewery: Fork<\/h4>\n
\"Bar<\/a>
Fork, ampersand, refraction<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Most of the local breweries \/ companies \/ entities contesting the beer awards count as “small” (less than a hundred thousand litres annual production): 59 out of 96. Adding in a Championship just for them makes all the sense in the world \u2014 especially if the cutoff is set at a level that lots of winners will soon outgrow and ‘graduate’ into the next tier. Fork’s MPC and PPE are at the competition-level average, but their medal haul is pretty amazing; they’re 10th on the overall table and \u2014 you know, just for example \u2014 thoroughly kicked Boston Beer’s ass no matter how you look at it. It’s definitely a performance that deserves of a round of applause and some silverware, and a worthwhile way to direct some public attention.<\/p>\n

Champion NZ Beer: Moa Southern Alps<\/h4>\n
\"Cover<\/a>
I haven’t drunk a Moa beer since this fucking thing<\/a>, so I don’t have many photos to use here<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Finally, the “Best in Show”. Each of the eleven trophy-winning beers were in the running for this, and Moa’s White IPA came out on top. I don’t have any\u00a0data<\/em> to talk about for this, given the nature of the competition.<\/span>16<\/sup><\/a><\/span> My complaint is more conceptual than that; I can’t really make sense of how a given IPA might be a better IPA than some other lager is a lager.<\/span>17<\/sup><\/a><\/span> There’s also the practical concern that the winner of this title might soak up disproportionate media coverage, given the shallow understanding of just what beer styles even\u00a0are<\/em> among the general public and the media. I’m not sure that has actually eventuated, here \u2014 coverage in general seems pretty light, to me, and only peppered with the usual<\/em> small confusions that the industry usually gets \u2014 but that’s more through luck than planning. Geoff Ross, at least, didn’t seem to convince anyone at the newspapers, or the stockmarket, with his nonsensical assertion that the win was “a reflection of the momentum Moa has in the market”<\/a>. This result is an outlier, for them; their performance this year was significantly down on 2017’s figures, with their MPC tumbling by 20 points.<\/p>\n

And…<\/em> that’s about all I have to say about that. For now.\u00a0It’s nice to get the numbers out of my head for another year, and time to read some philosophy homework, like I should’ve been doing all day. My working spreadsheet is here<\/a> \u2014 let me know if you find a mistake or any interesting patterns I’ve missed.<\/p>\n

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Last weekend gave us a fresh round of #BGONZAs \u2014 the Brewers’ Guild of New Zealand Awards.\u00a0Continuing the new practice they started last year, the Guild has provided us not just with a list of who\u00a0won what, but a full accounting of who\u00a0tried to. 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