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Basketball World Cup of Beer: Round 2 – Part 2

August 12, 2014

BWCB Opening Ceremony
It’s the knockout stages of the 2014 Basketball World Cup of Beer. If you are super late to the party, each of the 24 nations in the FIBA World Cup of Basketball is represented by a beer, we round them down using a format like the big one in Spain to decide the best. We had a rough Group A, a so-so Group B, an elite Group C, and a perfectly fine Group D. Now we’ve reached the business end of proceedings.

Yesterday Ozusjko, Admiral Benson, 8 Wired Superconductor DIPA, and Sierra Nevada Torpedo IPA booked their places in the quarter finals. Today we find out who will join them in the elite eight. Here are the match-ups:

Al-Ahram Stella (Egypt) vs FIX (Greece)
Alhambra Reserva 1925 (Spain) vs Old Harbor Kofresi Stout (Puerto Rico)
Sinebrychoff Porter (Finland) vs Lasko Dark (Slovenia)
Efes Malt (Turkey) vs Little Creatures Pale Ale (Australia)

Time to turn 8 into 4…

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Al-Ahram Stella (Egypt) vs FIX (Greece)
A beer that is drinkable vs a beer that is inoffensive. Either of these beers making the quarter finals seems nuts but such is the draw FIBA made for the actual World Cup and we were the ones dumb enough to follow it. Al-Ahram has smidgen of bitterness to make it stand out and progress.
Winner: Al-Ahram Stella Egypt

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Alhambra Reserva 1925 (Spain) vs Old Harbor Kofresi Stout (Puerto Rico)
In the home team’s corner: A beer wholly devoid of imagination. In the visting corner: A ridiculously good beer. Move along.
Winner: Old Harbor Kofresi Stout

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Sinebrychoff Porter (Finland) vs Lasko Dark (Slovenia)
This is pretty much the perfect scenario for Lasko Dark. It goes down to a beer that’s far superior and in a manner that is in no way embarrassing. Lasko Dark is a fine beer, Sinebrychoff Porter is an exceptional one.
Winner: Sinebrychoff Porter (Finland)

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Efes Malt (Turkey) vs Little Creatures Pale Ale (Australia)
Ahahahahahahahahaha…oh wait this is an actual match-up? Little Creatures, yeah, yeah that’s all we can say…umm this could upset people, gotta think of something, oh yeah Zoran Planinic.

And there you have it, the field for the quarter finals is set. We’ll have the first two on Thursday and the last pair on Friday.

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