Cantaras juleøl 2026

How it works

An evening around the table

1. Open a table

   Someone hosts. Their phone shows a QR code and a 6-character code for dim kitchens and dead cameras. The others scan or type it, and you are at the same table.

2. Locked blind reveal

   Everyone scores on their own phone. Nobody sees anything until the last person has scored. Then the dice are unwrapped on every phone in the same second, no reloading, along with what people wrote about the beer. No anchoring on whoever shouts first.

3. Duels on the side

   After two beers: which was better? The answers build a separate ranking on the side that does not care how generous you are with the dice. The official ranking is the dice.

4. Blind pour

   The host pours one of the beers on the table without saying which. The others guess, and the answer comes out when the last guess is in.

All through Advent

The tasting is a season, not an evening. There is something to play for all the way.

1. Cantara against Rebel

   After the consent step you pick a team: Cantara, Rebel or both. Tap a team to see who plays for it. The ranking can be shown per team, each team gets its own winner in the finale, and the team of the year is decided by scores per head, so a small team can beat a big one. Want a team of your own? Ask the organisers.

2. Tip the podium

   Which three beers make the podium? Tip gold, silver and bronze, and change your tip as often as you like until the last day begins. Nobody sees the tips before the finale, where the tipster of the year is named.

3. The advent calendar

   The home screen is an advent calendar. Every day you taste opens a door, and it keeps count of days in a row. While you sit at a table, it stays at the top until the host closes it. "I kveld" is the wall for the whole house: who is tasting what right now, with a cheer and an emoji for the others, but never their dice.

4. The finale on 23 December

   At 18:00 the star lights up. Cantara's juleøl 2026 is named, with the duel ranking beside it, each team's own winner, the tipping league and the season's awards.

Make it yours

Everything here is optional. The dice and a glass are enough.

1. Every beer has a page

   Tap a beer anywhere: the label, its place in the list and the spread of dice, the duels, the tags people gave it, and their tasting notes without names. Taste first, read afterwards: the notes open once you have rolled yourself, and only once three people have tasted the beer. Beers from the archive have their page with the votes year by year.

2. A photo of the label

   Snap the label before you taste, if you like. The photo is made smaller and stripped of location and camera data, and the others see it once an organiser has approved it. The first approved one becomes the beer's picture.

Baubles on the tree

• First Blood Your first tasting of the season
• Full Week Tasted on seven days in a row
• Explorer Rated a beer fewer than three others had tasted
• Lone Wolf Used all your solo days
• Social Butterfly Tasted with ten different people
• Contrarian Furthest from the crowd, on at least ten beers
• Advent Rated every day from 1 to 23 December
• Sommelier Predicted the group average within half a point, ten times
• Closing Time A rating on 23 December
• Blindsmaker Named the beer in a blind pour three times