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The Craft Beer League challenges participants to select the 6 Craft Beers that will have the largest percentage increase of retail sales over the previous week.
The current Craft Beer League season will run for 8 weeks from May 11 thru July 6. Leaderboards will list weekly scores as well as season totals.
Be sure to download the Fantasizr mobile app on Android and IOS. That way 250 Craft Beers will always be at your fingertip.
Comments are always welcome. Tell us what you like/dislike about the game and tell us what new craft beers you may have discovered.
Scoring
The Craft Beer League Rules
- Lineups (your 6-pack) will be locked on Mondays at 9pm ET. You may make as many changes as you'd like up until that time.
- Results from the prior week will be updated on Tuesday afternoons and scores will be updated.
- Points for each beer are calculated on where each beer ranks among the 250 Craft Beers based on their percentage increase in retail sales over the prior week.
- Your team score for the week will be the sum of the points for each beer in your 6-pack.
Name | Points | Total |
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Week 8 Highlights and Season Finale!
With Week 8 now complete The Craft Beer League season has come to an end. Congratulations to Jersey Suds, our season winner with a total of 7,310 points for the 8 week season. Checkout the LEADERBOARD on the Fantasizr website to see the Final list of the Top 50 teams for this season. Also, Congratulations to our Week 8 Winner "~ Top of the Hops ~" with 1,090 points. The Top 25 Week 8 Scores can be found in the table below.
So what's next? How about another season (coming soon) with some new craft beers as well as many of your favorites from this season. Look for details shortly via email and social media.
Team | Points |
~ Top of the Hops ~ | 1090 |
brand recognition | 1064 |
Suds Sister | 1052 |
Week 7 HIGHLIGHTS
Week 7 is now complete and just one more lweek remains in the current Craft Beer League season. The total Craft Beer category was up 5.10% from the previous week - the first week over week increase isince Memorial Day. Suprisingly, only 180 of the 250 beers in The Craft Beer League increased their weekly retail sales but some were quite significant. Congratulations to our Week 7 Winner "The Ale Storms" with 1,253 points. The Top 25 Week 7 Scores can be found in the table below. Be sure to checkout the LEADERBOARD on the website to see the Top 50 teams going into the final week of the season.
Team | Points |
The Ale Storms | 1253 |
Portland Brewers | 1107 |
Oumuamua | 1053 |
Wish you were beer | 1043 |
Beerly Legal | 1025... |
Week 6 HIGHLIGHTS
The Craft Beer category was down 1.55% from a week ago but that did not stop 206 of the 250 beers in The Craft Beer League from increasing their weekly retail sales. Congratulations to the Week 6 Winner "onepintatatime" with 1,176 points. The Top 25 Week 6 Scores can be found in the table below.
Team |
Week 6 Points |
onepintatatime | 1176 |
Jersey Suds | 1093 |
Crafty Frootz | 1086 |
wish you were beer | 1071 |
Iron City Lights | 1068 |
TheSpeccaList | 1064 |
Turtlenecks&Chains | 1029 |
fear no beer🍻 | 1003 |
Wish you were beer | 993 |
Gergster | 988 |
Buttchuggers Anonymous | 981 |
Old Bastard | 961 |
MIiller High Life | 954 |
One More | 928 |
Turn Down For Wort | 922 |
The Big Starfish | 906 |
pint and puppies | 900 |
The MBA | 886 |
The Mai... |
Week 5 Highlights
Congratulations to ROLLING HOPS, the top scoring team in Week 5 with 1,276 points!
Going into Week 5 there were 6 beers that had increased their weekly retail sales each week over the first 4 weeks of the season. Only 1 of those did it for a fifth straight week. Congratulations to New Glarus Spotted Cow Ale - their 1.45% increase in sales in Week 5 gives them 5 consecutive weeks of increasing sales and was good for 172 points this week.
Here are the Top 10 teams for the season with 3 weeks remaining. Good luck to all the rest of the way!
Top Teams |
Points |
1. brand recognition |
4,599 |
2. Jersey Suds |
4,500 |
3. Bock to the Brewture |
4,445 |
4. MikeyV |
4,425 |
5. Brew! Brew! Brew! |
4,352 |
6. fear... |
With Week 4 now complete we are half-way through our 8-Week season. Be sure to check the LEADERBOARD to see the Top 50 teams after 4 weeks. If you are one of them - Congratulations, keep it up the last 4 weeks. If you are not, just know things do trun quickly with The Craft Beer League and it is not unusual to gain hundreds of points in a week or two.
Did you join after the season started or just had a bad week early on? Every week is a new challenge to "win the week" and set your own Personal Best high score in pursuite of the Perfect 6-Pack (Score of 1485). Checkout this High Scores below for Week 4.
Team | Points |
Alessio’s Fam | 1150 |
Shady Beer Guy | 1108 |
fear no beer🍻 | 1103 |
brand recognition | 1093 |
Crafty | 1081 |
Beasts of... |
Wow! 15 Teams broke the 1,000 point mark in Week 3! Were you one of them? Congratulations to the high scorers for Week 3 below. Be sure to check the LEADERBOARD (only available on Fantasizr web) to view the Top 50 teams through Week 3 of the season.
Team | Points |
pint and puppies | 1141 |
Rolling Hops | 1117 |
BassMasters | 1106 |
Beerly Legal | 1099 |
Turn Down For Wort | 1096 |
Bock to the Brewture | 1091 |
sours and stouts | 1090 |
Eric | 1084 |
3D Malt | 1079 |
SummerAle | 1058 |
Corona Beer | 1054 |
Mike ICLD | 1053 |
Dobbsman Dunkelweizens | 1048 |
Brew! Brew! Brew! | 1041 |
Magic six | 1034 |
Week 2 saw 3 teams break the 1,000 point mark for the week! Congratulations to our Top 10 teams for Week 2 (below). Regardless of what you scored there is always the challenge to set a new "personal best" each week. Be sure to reference the LEADERBOARD (only available on Fantasizr web) to check the Leaders through Week 2 of the season.
Top Teams Week 2 |
Points |
Top Teams - |
Points |
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1297 |
2008 |
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1107 |
1894 |
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1004 |
1802 |
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973 |
1792 |
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937 |
1738 |
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931 |
1737 |
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929 |
Week 1 turned out to be a victory for Victory Brewing Company! While total craft beer sales were relatively flat from previous week (-0.17% vs. LW) Victory Brewing's SOUR MONKEY SOUR BRETT TRIPEL ALE and GOLDEN MONKEY saw big sales increases, up 72.13% and 65.04% vs previous week. These were the top 2 gainers for the week. Did you have them in your 6-pack? The perfect 6-Pack fpr Week 1 is below.
CBL Week 1 | %Chng vs. LW |
Rank | CBL Points |
VICTORY SOUR MONKEY SOUR BRETT TRIPEL ALE | 72.13% | 1 | 250 |
VICTORY GOLDEN MONKEY | 65.04% | 2 | 249 |
OSKAR BLUES CAN O BLISS IPA SERIES | 36.93% | 3 | 248 |
FLYING DOG THE TRUTH IMPERIAL IPA | 28.03% | 4 | 247 |
TERRAPIN HI 5 IPA | 27.43% | 5 | 246 |
THE SHED MOUNTAIN ALE | 25... |