BeerAdvocate Scores on Beer Packaging?

If more brewers showed the BA score then it would save me some hassle when beer shopping. Sometimes cell coverage is crap in the store, and I can't lookup scores.

 

Stone has used BA and Rate Beer scores on their IPA case packaging for years here in CA.

 

That should say the Bro's rated it 100 not Beer Advocate. That's a single persons review not a communities total score, very misleading advertising from Stone.

 

The RateBeer 100-scale scores are simple percentiles. An equal number of beers score a 99 as score a 50 as score a 1; of course bottle shops will only ever publish the high numbers. The old BA system artificially (but algorithmically) attempted to mimic human scores in the wine-rating world (with very few scores in the high 90s or below, say, 70). So while both systems maxed out at 100, the scales were radically different. All actual RateBeer ratings are done on a scale of 0.5 to 5.0 in 0.1 point increments. The real number to which you should pay attention is the Bayesian weighted average for each beer; the percentiles are mainly just for shelf tags. RateBeer users actually are much tougher graders than are BA or Untappd users. I estimate that the average beer here gets rated almost half a point (10%) higher than at RateBeer.

 

My only point was that the 1-100 scale has way more 100s, and that it makes more sense to use the higher score in marketing.the average consumer doesn't know about the rating websites, but they a 100 rating might be enough for them to try something.