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Drink up: Beerdrinker of the Year

Published November 20, 2008 at 3:06 p.m.

So the Wynkoop Brewing Company is selecting their 13th annual Beerdrinker of the Year, and, naturally, you're wondering if you'd make the cut. Funny, we were wondering that about you, too. Was it the fact that your living room is plastered in old Beer Wolf posters? Or was it the towering presence of your decades-old pyramid of Blatz Cans? Or was it something else - something, perhaps, like one of Club Hoppin's Five Unofficial Criteria for Judging the Beerdrinker of the Year:

1. You have a flowering hop vine tattooed on your neck - wait, we actually think that's a really good idea. Don't steal it.

2. Not only can you pass a blind taste test between Miller High Life Light and Miller High Life, but you also can correctly identify which end of the truck each rode in on and what brand of shoes the deliverymen were wearing.

3. When you walk into a bar, birds start chirping and a single ray of sunshine pierces the gloom. Even if there are no birds around. Or windows.

4. You passed out malted milk balls at Halloween - that you made at home with two-row Briess Caramel.

5. If someone utters the word Belgium, you shake uncontrollably and try to drink their face.

The 2009 Beerdrinker of the Year wins free beer for life at Wynkoop Brewing Co. and $250 of beer at their local brewpub or beer bar. They also brew a special beer with Wynkoop head brewer Andy Brown, which is served at the 2009 Beerdrinker of the Year National Finals in February. Entrants have until Dec. 31 to e-mail their resumes to beerdrinker@wynkoop.com for consideration.

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