Heady Topper #1 on BA

For the polite sake of argument - by your reasoning the brewers of IPA's should be yanking them off the shelves after a few months when they've expired, but that is a widespread problem that we all deal with regularly and that solution is also a bit unrealistic. In an ideal world, yes, but not the one we live in.

And I don't think most tickers have the sense to not tick/review old IPA's, IIPA's or others that go downhill after months in one's closet at home. Gotta get that tick.

 

It's a good looking can!

 

HEADY is #1!

 

I agree. Although I do like see a different color check box for the ones that i have "had" in the ranking lists, instead of just the ones i reviewed.

 

Agreed...

however it seems many BAs seem to think 6 weeks is "getting old" as far as the style goes, and generally I can agree with this, but I'm fairly certain The Alchemist thinks/knows his brew peaks somewhere around this period of time since canning.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

 

You're right, #7 is way too low for Zombie Dust.......

 

Heady is my all time favorite beer, I need another fridge just to store it when I go visit!!

 

I've had exactly one Heady (Which I poured into a mutha-fuckin glass). It was delicious and got me feelin plenty good knowatimsayin. I can honestly say I have no problem with it being #1. However, there are plenty of others that could also be there and I'd take no issue with it.

 

I dont see anything wrong with giving heady a 5 and therefore it being ranked the highest. Some people like reviewing some people could care less like myself. I only review once in awhile and if I think its warrented, either I really like something or its somehthing a lot of people have tried and I may have a different taste for it.

 

I happen to use the hads only and I assign thoughtful scores. In my mind this qualifies as a proper score. I am finding the reactions to the websites recent updates interesting. I guess the almighty reviewers who write shit think they are better than all the rest. Thanks so much for your time and effort. Have a cookie on me.

 

Will be interesting to see if heady will keep its high ranking when 2000 more people review it?

 

I do, but when I did my review I had to look at it. I don't mind sediment, but can't give it a 5 for looks. See you in a month at EBF. Really excited.

 

its not just about writing shit, its about evaulating 5 different numbers that go into a final score.

its a completely different system. if the "had" system let me just choose 1-5 on each of the weighted aspects (appearance, smell, taste, mouthfeel, overall) and shoot out a score it would make more sense to merge.

untill than, as thoughtfull as your "had" reviews are, its still not as accurate as a formal review.

 

Couldn't be because it's really good or anything!

 

Thank god!

 

No one is debating that. But, it's also fair to recognize that all the sudden the "rules" changed. Heady Topper didn't get any better. Westy 12 didn't get any worse. No one changed their opinions of any beers. The Bros changed the algorithm.

 

HT is great, but IMO duet blows it out of the water.

 

Not a big fan of the scoring system. Too many troll accounts doing things like this...

http://beeradvocate.com/user/beers?ba=IPAyForHops

However scores mean jackshit to me.... and jack just left town.

 

I'm well aware of the rating system and I don't necessarily agree that your 3.5 does not equal my 3.5 regardless of how it got there. If you want to think that you are better at this reviewing of beer thing than fine, but I’m not sure how the self-important nobs who have complained about the changes have any more credibility at reviewing beers than my cat.