Beer Polls: The final results were predictable and surprising

In the week between Christmas and New Year’s, the Crew put out a series of beer polls (you can find them here, here, and here) to see if all of you would vote differently than the readers of Albuquerque The Magazine in its Best of the City awards. In four categories, our readers and theirs were on the same page. The rest, well, no, often not even close.

To break it all down, we are listing all the pertinent info — total votes, winners, runners-up, and a reminder of the magazine winners. As always, these polls (or any polls) are hardly scientific proof of anything. There were even some accusations flying between the breweries that there was some ballot-stuffing going on, particularly in the last set of six polls. Next time around, if we ever do this again, we will make sure to activate the “one vote per IP address” option. If you scroll all the way to the bottom you will see the tallies o

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