Top Rated Brewery List?

I don't think so, It would just be another "round up the usual suspects" list.

 

Nah

 

Nailed it

 

I think he might be referring to Top Breweries by overall quality and rating, not just the beer. Obviously a generic "Top Breweries" list would be boring but beer quality (and hype) are just one piece of the puzzle.

A weighted list that values service, selection, and overall quality, among other things, would be interesting IMO.

 

It'd be of no interest to me (I don't look at the top beer lists either), but, why not?

 

As I said in post #2 "round up the usual suspects"

 

I guess I was thinking of a "Top Places" list, but only for breweries. A list where beer quality is important, but so is service, atmosphere, location, accessibility, selection, etc...

For example, a brewery like Other Half would be up near the top in quality, but location and accessibility wouldn't.

Taking EVERYTHING into consideration would create a different list than simply who has the most hyped beers.

 

Yale terrace x 10

 

In my mind what you just described is what occurs with a Places rating here on BA. You can do a search of 'breweries only' by state and click on the Score column header and rank the resulting list of breweries. Here's one for New Hampshire. https://www.beeradvocate.com/place/list/?start=0&s_id=NH&brewery=Y&sort=avg (You can probably do a search of all the USA breweries too, but that may overwork the search feature.) It may need to be 'handicapped' somehow to adjust for the breweries that have a low number of ratings that happen to result in an overall 4.63 and topping the list and may not be as good as that score, but maybe it is.

 

Here's the problem with doing this; you will get the breweries that produce the most sought after beer at the top of the list regardless of how good the brewery experience is.

 

I do this kind of search whenever I travel (which is often thanks to work). I sort by number of ratings and then cherry pick the higher rated breweries.

 

Sure, why not, the more information I have the more choices I've got.

 

It’s a pretty damn good idea, just because you can rate popularity in terms of how many ratings they get and, more importantly, rate in terms of how high their ratings are. I like it.

 

But what about rating them in terms of

A) how many ratings their beers get (indicating how much people want to try/rate their stuff)

B) how well their beers rate in terms of an aggregate score

I think that gives a better idea of what they are as a brewery more than a “place rating”. For instance, I enjoy Three Floyds’ beer and would give them at least a 4 to 4.25 as a brewery, but my place rating is low because the one time I was there that wasn’t a Dark Lord Day, I hated the place.

 

How about ranking breweries by time frame based on their genesis- Older, Kinda New, New (grouped into periods of years, more categories can be added). That way, you get the usual suspects and then some.