Est. 2020 · friendship, weird beer & questionable judging
BEER
FESTIVUS
Six years of weird imports, homebrews, grudges, ties and excellent bad ideas — preserved as a tribute to the people who keep doing this.
Six years of weird imports, homebrews, grudges, ties and excellent bad ideas — preserved as a tribute to the people who keep doing this.
Before the medals, formulas and arguments about ties, there are the people who keep showing up with something strange. No power-ranking order here — just the full cast and their contribution to the cellar.
Pick a name for the year-by-year history. Rankings live further down the page where they belong.
Every year gets its moment: the original lineup, the podium beers and the exact ties that caused the arguments. This is the official history — not an excuse to bring boring beer next year.
Five quick multiple-choice questions pulled from completed Festivus history and the sort of group lore nobody should have retained. Current-year secret selections are never used.
Every round is five mixed questions. The game remembers recent rounds, spaces similar history apart, and avoids repeating a question until you have worked through a lot more bad decisions.
Exact same beer: no good. Same brewery, clearly different beer: fair game. A different year/vintage or minor variation of the same base beer is now treated as a near-repeat and blocked by default — questionable cases can go to Ephor review.
Start typing the beer or brewery. Search all 146 cleaned historical entries and flag exact or related matches.
❌ Exact beer — previously entered, so don't bring it again.
⛔ Near-repeat — another vintage/year or minor variation of the same base beer has appeared. Blocked by default; genuinely distinct cases can request Ephor review.
✅ No match — no historical match found in the current archive.
Yes, there is still a leaderboard. No, it is not the point. The score now rewards total contribution across the years instead of letting a tiny sample size become a dynasty.
The actual heart of the site: every official beer plus the two special appearances, searchable by beer, brewery, style or competitor. Entries stay in drinking/day order; results are preserved without becoming the organizing principle.