{"id":20244,"date":"2022-07-21T18:02:58","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T06:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=20244"},"modified":"2023-07-18T19:05:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T07:05:26","slug":"medals-and-math-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2022\/07\/21\/medals-and-math-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Medals and math III \u2014 a bonanza of BGONZAs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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These were AIBAs, not BGONZAs, admittedly; it turns out I don’t take many awards night photos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s beer awards night back home in New Zealand. I’ll be tuning in as best I can from over here in Melbourne<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> and doubtless obsessing over various weird little details and patterns once I’ve got the full results. As I’ve tried to make the case here before,<\/span>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span> I think there are a few interesting stories lurking underneath the headline results that get most of the attention on the night, and you can only really find them by crunching some numbers. So let’s quickly do that for the awards that have happened since I got distracted by a<\/em>) moving and b<\/em>) a pandemic, so we’re all caught up and ready for more \u2014 since, as of tomorrow, I’ll have\u00a0five years<\/em> worth of data to play with, which feels like it’ll be a good time to go looking for trendlines…<\/span>3<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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My method here is to work out two scores for each ‘contestant’, to give us a couple of different ways to think about how they performed, in addition to the medals and trophies and championship titles handed out on the night. MPC<\/strong> is a brewery’s medal percentage<\/em>: the proportion of their entries that earn a medal, which is nice and simple and intuitive \u2014 but has only been possible to discern since the Brewers’ Guild started publishing a full catalogue of entries (not just winners<\/em>). PPE<\/strong><\/span>4<\/sup><\/a><\/span> takes those medals, assigns a gold 3 points, a silver 2, and a bronze 1, and then figures out an entrant’s\u00a0points per entry<\/em>. Higher is better for both, and they do correlate to an extent, but they also measure different kinds of success. An MPC of 100 is obviously impressive, but if all those medals were bronze for a PPE of 1.0, you might be less happy with your performance than a brewery who had a much shinier medal haul, even if a few beers missed out.<\/span>5<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Last year’s results, for breweries who entered ten or more beers (which weeds out the statistically-noisier end of things but still covers half the breweries and 80% of the beers), look like this:<\/span>6<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Performance at the 2021 Brewers’ Guild of New Zealand Awards<\/h4>\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\n\t\n\t\n\t
Brewery<\/th>Entries<\/th>MPC<\/th>PPE<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Behemoth<\/td>55<\/td>47.3<\/td>0.64<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lion<\/td>36<\/td>69.4<\/td>1.28<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Garage Project (Champion Large Brewery)<\/td>35<\/td>77.1<\/td>1.43<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
McLeods (Champion Medium Brewery)<\/td>26<\/td>69.2<\/td>1.19<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kainui<\/td>25<\/td>32<\/td>0.36<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Deep Creek<\/td>24<\/td>62.5<\/td>1.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Boneface<\/td>23<\/td>47.8<\/td>0.78<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kerer\u016b<\/td>21<\/td>61.9<\/td>1.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Emerson's<\/td>21<\/td>57.1<\/td>0.95<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
D.B.                                                         <\/td>21<\/td>38.1<\/td>0.62<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mount<\/td>21<\/td>19<\/td>0.19<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunshine<\/td>20<\/td>60<\/td>0.95<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fork & Brewer<\/td>20<\/td>35<\/td>0.45<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Three Sisters (Champion Micro Brewery)<\/td>20<\/td>30<\/td>0.45<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Urbanaut<\/td>20<\/td>30<\/td>0.35<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Double Vision<\/td>19<\/td>52.6<\/td>0.63<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Eddyline<\/td>19<\/td>42.1<\/td>0.53<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Altitude (Champion Small Brewery)<\/td>18<\/td>66.7<\/td>1.17<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aotearoa (a.k.a. Mata)<\/td>16<\/td>56.3<\/td>0.88<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Good George<\/td>16<\/td>56.3<\/td>0.88<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Three Boys<\/td>16<\/td>50<\/td>0.75<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Shining Peak<\/td>15<\/td>73.3<\/td>1.13<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lakeman<\/td>15<\/td>46.7<\/td>0.60<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sprig & Fern<\/td>14<\/td>50<\/td>0.71<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Parrotdog<\/td>14<\/td>35.7<\/td>0.71<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Beer Baroness<\/td>13<\/td>69.2<\/td>1.15<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8 Wired<\/td>13<\/td>46.2<\/td>0.77<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Brave<\/td>12<\/td>83.3<\/td>1.33<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Panhead<\/td>12<\/td>58.3<\/td>1.17<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bach<\/td>12<\/td>50<\/td>0.83<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sawmill<\/td>11<\/td>72.7<\/td>0.82<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fortune Favours<\/td>11<\/td>63.6<\/td>0.82<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Liberty<\/td>10<\/td>80<\/td>1.00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
North End<\/td>10<\/td>70<\/td>1.20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Waitoa<\/td>10<\/td>60<\/td>0.90<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ChinChiller<\/td>10<\/td>60<\/td>0.70<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

Behemoth entered more beers than any brewery by a considerable margin \u2014 indeed, more than I’ve ever seen and quite likely the most ever, full stop \u2014 and did really quite poorly for it. Their MPC and PPE are both well under the competition average\u00a0and<\/em> a precipitous drop from their performance in previous years. Given that this seems to coincide with them opening their own brewery and moving (some? most?) production in-house when previously their beers were produced under contract, they can’t be happy with that. Other breweries experienced some noteworthy swings of fortune, particularly 8 Wired, whose MPC dropped into the 40s after always reliably being in the 70s, and Parrotdog, a recent Champion Medium Brewery (in 2018)\u00a0whose numbers have oscillated pretty wildly of late.<\/span>7<\/sup><\/a><\/span> Three Sisters, who took the title in the new Champion Micro category, also fared conspicuously poorer in MPC\/PPE terms than the three larger champions.<\/p>\n

Speaking of which, Garage Project<\/span>8<\/sup><\/a><\/span> took out their championship category in pretty spectacular fashion; their PPE is the best among breweries who entered 10 or more beers<\/span>9<\/sup><\/a><\/span> and their MPC likewise ranked very highly, outdone only by Brave and Liberty (about whom much more in a moment…) and three minor entrants. Entering that many beers and keeping your scores that solid \u2014 and here applause should also be directed at Lion (another previous title holder) and McLeod’s (Champion Medium Brewery in this run) \u2014 demonstrates some pretty outstanding product and<\/em> self-awareness, since it’s always up to the breweries to submit their own stuff and try to put their best foot forward.<\/p>\n

Now then, pushing our Spreadsheet Time Machine further back into the past, you may recall that the 2020 awards didn’t happen \u2014 because, well, you know \u2014 but the results for 2019 look like this:<\/p>\n

Performance at the 2019 Brewers’ Guild of New Zealand Awards<\/h4>\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\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Brewery<\/th>Entries<\/th>MPC<\/th>PPE<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
D.B.                                                         <\/td>35<\/td>20<\/td>0.26<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Garage Project<\/td>34<\/td>67.7<\/td>1.03<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lion (Champion Large Brewery)<\/td>33<\/td>75.8<\/td>1.21<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kerer\u016b<\/td>30<\/td>53.3<\/td>0.87<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Emerson\u2019s<\/td>26<\/td>50<\/td>0.85<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Parrotdog<\/td>25<\/td>56<\/td>0.96<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Black Dog<\/td>23<\/td>56.5<\/td>0.74<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Boneface<\/td>22<\/td>86.4<\/td>1.32<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fortune Favours<\/td>22<\/td>13.6<\/td>0.14<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fork (Champion Small Brewery)<\/td>21<\/td>57.1<\/td>0.86<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Deep Creek<\/td>20<\/td>55<\/td>0.80<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sprig & Fern<\/td>20<\/td>35<\/td>0.50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Behemoth<\/td>19<\/td>84.2<\/td>1.37<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8 Wired<\/td>19<\/td>73.7<\/td>1.32<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Moa Brewing<\/td>19<\/td>52.6<\/td>0.84<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Good George<\/td>17<\/td>70.6<\/td>1.18<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Choice Bros<\/td>17<\/td>52.9<\/td>0.82<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tuatara<\/td>17<\/td>35.3<\/td>0.59<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sunshine<\/td>16<\/td>81.3<\/td>1.31<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Townshend<\/td>16<\/td>50<\/td>0.75<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Baylands<\/td>16<\/td>43.8<\/td>0.56<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lakeman<\/td>16<\/td>43.8<\/td>0.56<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Asahi (NZ)<\/td>16<\/td>37.5<\/td>0.44<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Heyday<\/td>15<\/td>66.7<\/td>0.87<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Panhead<\/td>15<\/td>66.7<\/td>0.87<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
McLeods<\/td>15<\/td>53.3<\/td>1.20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sawmill<\/td>14<\/td>57.1<\/td>0.64<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Altitude<\/td>13<\/td>23.1<\/td>0.23<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Three Boys<\/td>12<\/td>91.7<\/td>1.75<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Double Vision<\/td>12<\/td>66.7<\/td>1.08<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cassels<\/td>12<\/td>58.3<\/td>0.92<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Liberty (Champion Medium Brewery)<\/td>11<\/td>100<\/td>2.18<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Renaissance<\/td>11<\/td>36.4<\/td>0.55<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rhyme and Reason<\/td>11<\/td>36.4<\/td>0.45<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Southpaw<\/td>11<\/td>36.4<\/td>0.64<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Epic<\/td>10<\/td>50<\/td>0.80<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Crafty Trout<\/td>10<\/td>10<\/td>0.10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

Here, the real standout is buried on the fourth page of the table. Liberty<\/span>10<\/sup><\/a><\/span> took the Champion Medium Brewery title in even more spectacular fashion, which I don’t recall being heralded anywhere near strongly enough at the time. Winning medals for every single beer they entered they entered that year, they also got the highest PPE of any brewery entering ten or more beers that I’ve ever seen, by a significant margin (2.18, when the previous best was 1.7).<\/span>11<\/sup><\/a><\/span> Eleven beers is also easily the fewest entered by anyone snagging a champion title, which demonstrates even more of that self-awareness I was praising the 2021 champions for.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Lion took the Champion Large Brewery title for 2019, with MPC and PPE scores only slightly behind what Garage Project would later get in 2021.<\/span>12<\/sup><\/a><\/span> Most striking to me, though, is the comparison between the members of New Zealand’s long-running duopoly;<\/span>13<\/sup><\/a><\/span> D.B.’s results look absolutely dire up against Lion’s. There’s some variation in which sub-units are counted in or out of the parent company for the beer awards from year to year (Tuatara was under the D.B. banner in 2021, but stood alone here \u2014 and slightly outperformed its parent) , but the pattern is strong and consistent: Lion trounces D.B. over and over, to the extent it must cause glee in one boardroom and occasionally raised voices in the other.<\/p>\n

And that’ll do for now. I haven’t been swimming in this data as much as I did in previous years, so I’m sure there’s a lot I’m overlooking, but I’ll add tonight’s results to the mix and see what makes itself visible. Your observations are welcome, as ever. It’s always an interesting night in the beer business, and I’m sorry I can’t join it in person. I’ll just be over here, with my spreadsheets.<\/p>\n

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It’s beer awards night back home in New Zealand. I’ll be tuning in as best I can from over here in Melbourne and doubtless obsessing over various weird little details and patterns once I’ve got the full results. 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