How many beers have you rated?

1279 rated with 1142 of those reviewed.

 

None, life's too short.

 

Just started recently here, just hit 100...had almost 600 ratings on another site, but I don't use that one anymore...it's BA or nothing!!!!!

 

1222 though i`ve had much more

 

Getting close to 7,000.

 

I started rating here exclusively and now use Untappd and then enter the scores from there onto here now. I try to keep current but sometimes go weeks without entering on here.

 

As of now: 2466.

 

Yeah but you didn't come to that conclusion until Oct 2012.

 

Yay!

I'm just creeping up to number 2300.

 

Review > Rating

 

As of now: 2475.

 

I rate not so much to remind myself of whether I liked the beer (can always remember that), but to remind myself of the beer's flavor profile.

 

A few. There use to be a guy named Buckeye Nation, greatest reviews on this site. They were like fucking stories.

Cheers!

 

Every review is a rating, but not every rating is a review. I only started doing reviews, because back in the day you had to review to keep a list. After cranking so many reviews (mostly with a 250 word minimum), I was kinda happy to just do a quick rating, and not have to take notes all the time at the bar. Now I often enter a quick score on Untappd, and then transfer it over here later. I still do some reviews, but I like just being able to rate. My score for a beer will be the same, whether a review or a rate, so I don't feel a rate has any less value than a review.

 

Before rating using the Beer Advocate 1-5 scale I would simply take notes on a beer's characteristics, placing it all down longhand in a pocket notebook (and sometimes transcribing those to a Word document or the like.) But I would seldom rate on any type of scale.* Maybe tack on a thought in passing such as: "Not bad" or "Worth a repeat visit."

*Around that time, I had professional brewer / beer judge friends who developed their own shorthand rating scale:

1. I would drink this again.
2. I would seek this out.
3. I would neither drink this again -nor- seek it out.
4. I would not drink this if it were handed to me as a kind gesture.

3 was pretty common for them, but 4 was so rare that I don't think they ever actually used it, since they considered it bad form to turn down something which was offered in friendship.

 

I'm only in the 60's, but I also haven't reviewed anything from (more than a couple weeks) before I joined.

I like the ratings, because it keeps track for me. Simpler than trying to remember what I liked and didn't.

 

~550 in a year and a few months. Slowing down to enjoy my highest rated for a bit.

 

Uh-oh! You're catching up! I better get to ticking!

 

Go for it, fellow Poobah.

 

Beer is a beverage. Beer is also a cultural concept. I'm uninterested in beer as just something to drink, or as simply a means of acceptance. These needs are satisfied via other means.

Beer has a range of qualities including sensual, experiential, social, and others. I do enjoy it for all of these qualities, to varying degrees, but most enjoy it for its sensual qualities.