World Cup Beer Sweepstake: The Big Draw

We managed to get 64 names down to take part in the World Cup Beer Sweepstake so we’ve got two separate competitions running, both with the chance to win free beer. The first 32 names who entered are playing for a year’s subscription to myBrewerytap’s 52 Week Beer Club. The second 32 are playing for a box of beer each from Ales by Mail, Adnams Brewery and Highland Brewing Company.

The same rules apply for both: everyone gets drawn a team and they have to find a beer from that country then drink it and write a blog about it. You can only win if you write a blog – no blog, no win, simple. And you can only win the beer if you can get it delivered somewhere in the UK, I’m afraid – if you can’t then the prize is forfeited to the closest runner-up (but you are playing for fun, not free beer, right). There are a number of guys who are happy to take guest posts, you can contact them yourself, don’t be shy – Andy, me, Chunk, Baron Orm, Robbie, Peter Olding and probably some others.

No rules about what the blog post is – it could be 50 words or 1,000 words, pitched any way you want – except that it needs to involve the searching and (hopefully) finding of a beer from the country you are drawn and then the drinking of it. Feel free to put in some other links to the beer - drink it while your team play, add some beer facts about that country or a food and beer link, for example.

I drew the names and posted it to youtube. I had the players in one bowl and the teams in the other – it was the fairest way we could think of and you’ll just have to trust that I didn’t cheat. The camera died just as I finished the first draw, cutting off the final name. Here’s who is paired with each team, in alphabetical order. And yes, I am aware that I look stupid while doing this but I’m trying not to look in the bowl.

Beer Sweepstake One

Andy Mogg   -   Nigeria

Arfur Daley  -   Spain

Baron Orm  -   Chile

Blair  -   Holland

Bob Arnott  -   New Zealand

Chris Barron  -   Italy

Chris King  -   Algeria

Chris McBride  -   USA

Ed Davies  -   Cameroon

Edward Wray  -   Brazil

Ian Powell  -   South Korea

Josh Christie  -   Ivory Coast

Kenny Hannah  -   Uruguay

Lee Bacon  -   Portugal

Lois Carter  -   Germany

Marc Stewart  -   Mexico

Mark Charlwood  -   Australia

Mark Dredge  -   North Korea

Mark Fletcher  -   Slovenia

Matt Taylor  -   Japan

Mitch Adams  -   Denmark

Nick Fenwick  -   France

Nick James  -   Argentina

Peter Olding  -   England

Reluctant Scooper  -   Paraguay

Richard Mackney  -   Ghana

Scott Edwards  -   Serbia

Sean Nordquist  -   Honduras

Simon Smith  -   Slovakia

Simon Tucker  -   South Africa

Steven Pejica  -   Switzerland

Uncle Wilco  -   Greece

Beer Sweepstake Two

Andrew Smith  -   USA

Andrew Todd  -   Paraguay

Andy Mackay  -   Serbia

Ben Steel  -   England

Benn Glazier  -   Brazil

Billy Clark  -   Italy

Calum Robertson  -   Ghana

Chris Kay  -   Greece

Chris Routledge  -   Cameroon

Dan Lloyd  -   Uruguay

Dan Pubs of Manchester  -   Nigeria

David Lozman  -   North Korea

Graeme Hood  -   Slovenia

James Allen  -   Ivory Coast

John Corcoran  -   New Zealand

Katherine Simmons  -   Japan

Mario Rubio  -   Denmark

Mark Jackman  -   France

Matt Stokes  -   Germany

Mike Biewer  -   Australia

Mike Box  -   Argentina

Oliver Dimsdale  -   South Africa

Richard Marriott  -   Portugal

Robbie Pickering  -   Holland

Roger Williams  -   Mexico

Sam Hill  -   Spain

Simon Reid  -   Chile

Steve Larson  -   Honduras

Steve Owen  -   South Korea

Steve Williams  -   Slovakia

Stuart Ross  -   Algeria

Will Miller  -   Switzerland

The competition is now live so go and find the beers! The deadline is the day of the World Cup Final – Sunday 11th July – and you need to have posted on or by then. Good luck (especially those with North Korea, Paraguay, Honduras and Ghana!).

Now if anyone knows of anywhere which stocks any North Korean beers, then please let me know!