The Beer Cartel polled 6,500 craft beer drinkers in Australia over a wide ranging set of preferences and came up with some results that you can see summarized below:
It is great to know what the top three breweries in Australia are so I can be on the lookout for them. I understand that it is a bit of a popularity contest but it makes for a good starting off point for the beer traveler that may be heading there.
This link will send you to the full results and though nothing leapt out as an outlier or statistically questionable, it is interesting to look at each question and theorize how the survey would come out if answered by American craft beer drinkers.
The questions that I wish would get asked to a group (maybe by the fine number crunchers at FiveThirtyEight) are the following:
The Best State for Beer – I am so done with the meaningless Best Beer City interwebs vote
The Best Country Brewing Beer – I assume that we would vote ourselves # 1 but who would win the horserace for the silver and bronze?
Can vs. Bottle preference – bottles won comfortably but 40% expressed no winner.
In addition to hoping that a similar survey can be done here, I hope the Beer Cartel will do this again next year to see if anything has changed.