Brooklyn Beer Wins Taste Tournament

A Brooklyn beer has been crowned champion of a 32-beer taste tournament hosted by the Washington Post.

Modeled on the NCAA basketball tournament, five panelists judged the beers in head-to-head, single-elimination matchups, choosing their favorites in blind taste tests.

Brooklyn Lager, crafted by the Brooklyn Brewery in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn, prevailed in the final round last week against another New York beer, Saranac Pale Ale by Matt Brewery in Utica.

The tournament hosts said they sought a wide range of brews for the competition, drawing ultimately from 19 states.

Brooklyn Brewery was founded in 1987 by a former Mideast correspondent for the Associated Press, Steve Hindy, with his downstairs neighbor, a Chemical Bank lending officer, Tom Potter.