Do you drink 'Outstanding' beers on average?

Considering my standby beers are Schlafly's IPA's, SNPA, Sierra Nevada Stout, Founder's Porter, and Stone IPA. I would say yes.

 

Love this. Totally with you.

 

I don't think it seems skewed at all, and I think you answered your own question as to why in your post. A lot of craft beers are actually really good. It's not easy to brew a good beer, but it's easy to spot a bad one. Nobody is going to invest the money, go through the labeling process, scale up production, find distribution, etc. for a beer that hasn't been vetted by a group of knowledgeable people who think it's a really good beer.

The rating system doesn't really account for the fact that you're likely never going to encounter a 1 or 2 unless it's been stored incorrectly, the rater is unfairly grading a style they just don't like, or you're trying your neighbor's first batch of homebrew he's making with the kit he got for Christmas.

 

for drinking at home, if it isn't outstanding, I'll likely go find something that is.
Life's too short.

 

For me personally, I just drink really good beer. I'm fortunate to live five minutes away from Beachwood Brewing, a thirty minute drive and I can hit an absurd amount of craft beer bars, breweries and tap rooms, and in two hours I can be in San Diego.

As a result, pretty much, unless I'm trying something new, everything is just an outstanding beer. At least for me.

 

The chart made my afternoon.

 

Yes, I drink a lot of Pipeworks.

 

90% of my beers are 4.0 rating or higher.

 

Yes I do. I only buy beers that got a 90 or higher whenever I go out of town to my favorite liquor store. I'll buy whatever when I buy local.

 

What seems to happen with the styles is that some are less popular and so average lower ratings (lower parts of the scale in use) across the board. Some of those styles (e.g., Pilsner beers) are said by many brewers to be more difficult to get right than are the ales characterized by big bold flavors. Also folks who are newly engaged tend to favor the big bold flavors as it takes a while to train the palate to appreciate the flavors and complexity of other styles. Perhaps it would be worth looking at ratings of styles as a function of amount of time spent in reviewing, sampling, etc.

 

If it is a 1 to 5 scale, 3 is dead center.

 

Do you check reviews before purchases, or else usually by beers from respected brewers or hyped up, popular beers? if so then you're like me, you're buying beers that you'll probably like. i imagine only people who buy lots of beer randomly with no regard to score or personal taste would have an average score that's, well, average. it makes perfect sense that your average score is high because if you're buying beer that's widely considered to be above average.

 

You guys are worse than record collectors! Trust me, I am one

 

I pretty much just drink world class beer

 

No, because zero is not a possible score.

 

With all the outstanding choices out there, life is too short to drink average beer. It's really not that hard to drink outstanding beer on a regular basis, even with a budget. Granted, it'll never be a BudLight budget