Lew Bryson wrote:

> "Bill Bradley" > wrote in message
> news:32T%e.7446
>
>>Who the heck voted Bigfoot the best Barleywine? Unless this batch was
>>spectacularly better than previous years I don't know how they'd crack
>>top-10.
>
>
> Ah, that would be blind tasters who didn't see what the label was on each
> beer, poor *******s, and only had taste and smell to go on, instead of years
> of finely honed opinion and prejudgment.

Oh come on. I rather like a number of Sierra Nevada's brews, but I
know I am not alone in having found Bigfoot a rather unpleasant
experience in Barleywine. Although Heavyweight's Old Salty was not
represented, Weyerbacher and Old Dominion were (were Blithering Idiot,
Millennium or Insanity entered? They only list the breweries not the
particular beers) and I have had difficulty finishing previous years'
Bigfoots at all, to the point that I avoid them on principle, but this
years would have to be bloody spectacular to beat those two breweries,
and they didn't even place! Sorry I've "only" tried about a hundred
different brews this year (Bigfoot '05 not having been one of them) but
I have a hard time buying that as a gold medalist.

Bill