I keep track of my beers in a spreadsheet and 2019 was definitely my best beer year ever! Here are some tidbits I extracted. Feel free to share your own! 2019: Different breweries visited: 216 Number of states I had a beer in: 23 Brewery I visited the most: Trillium Brewing Company (Boston): 40 times Unique beers tried: 1,655 Beer I had the most: 25 times - Brandy Candy from Prairie Artisan Ales (this was our single barrel beer Prairie brewed for us) 5 Best beers: Hill Farmstead Ann (2014) Hill Farmstead Double Barrel Damon (2016) Hill Farmstead Anne: Yellow Raspberries Side Project O.W.K. The Answer Jefferson Reserve Bourbon Barrel Aged Phantom Limb Pain Here's to a great 2020! I hope to get closer to my goal of visiting a brewery in all 50 states!
Working on my stats from the Excel sheet I keep. Will have all the numbers down sometime later today.
According to Untappd (they have a "Year in Review" feature; it takes one click): (note, I'm missing a lot of check-ins on stuff I had more than once) Your Year in Beer 1081 Total Check-Ins 712 Unique Beers 166 Different Breweries 77 Different Styles Your Top 5 Most Checked-In Beers So many beers. So little time. Here’s what you really enjoyed drinking. Hello LA by Highland Park Brewery 28 Haze Later by Beachwood Brewing Unbiased Opinion by Modern Times Beer (Green Cheek collab) Good Green by Highland Park Brewery Abaddon by Modern Times Beer Your Top 5 Most Checked-In Styles Were you part of the haze craze or did you stick to more traditional styles? IPA - American Stout - Imperial / Double IPA - Imperial / Double IPA - Imperial / Double New England IPA - New England Your Top Rated Styles Stout - Pastry 4.32 Stout - Imperial / Double 4.31 Stout - Imperial / Double Milk 4.31 Top 5 Most Checked-In Breweries Everyone has favorite breweries. Which were yours? Let’s take a look. Modern Times Beer (240 check-ins) Highland Park Brewery (129 check-ins) Bottle Logic Brewing (81 check-ins) Other Half Brewing (68 check-ins) Smog City Brewing (46 check-ins) Where do you like to drink? Unique Venues 63 States / Regions 2 Countries 1 Top 3 Venue Categories Brewery 27 Venues Bar 5 Venues American Restaurant 3 Venues
No spreedsheet or Untappd stats, but here's what I can glean from the site here: Beer reviews: 547 Top rated beers: King Jjjuliusss (4.76) King OJ Run (4.76) King Julius (4.75) Top rated places: Row 34 (4.69) Machine House Brewing - Central District Taproom (4.65) Tørst (4.58) Missouri beer accounted for 24.61% of my total beer reviews (total, not limited to 2019) Unsure on other categories such as: pictures uploaded, Most Popular Beers reviewed, etc., but I have been able to upload more label photos lately and have 'ticked' several of the Most Popular Beers these past couple weeks.
I am going to skip the rest and report my 5 best new beers (to me). Looks like 2019 was the year of the stout Brooklyn Black Ops 4.65 Toppling Goliath Pseudo Sue 4.54 Fiftyfifty Imperial Eclipse High West 4.54 Summit City Black Russian 4.55 Barley's Bourbon Meyer Stout 4.49 Probably going to crack open Eclipse Joseph Magnus tonight so hoping it makes the list!
Similarly, more interested in my Top 5 of 2019, as follows: 1. Founders - Underground Mountain 4.75 2. Fremont - Coffee KDS 4.62 3. Fremont - BBomb 4.58 4. Treehouse - I Will Not Be Afraid 4.56 5. Lone Pint - Yellow Rose 4.56
Its part of their beer club thing. You can buy a full barrel and add your own flavoring adjuncts. One of the cooler beer club things I've ever heard of
My top 5 of 2019: Hill Farmstead Aaron- 4.8 Founders Mas Agave- 4.78 Southern Tier Nitro S'mores- 4.77 Founders KBS Espresso- 4.73 '17 Bourbon County Reserve- 4.71
Beer Stats of 2019 # Beers 359 # Places 45 Top Rated Beers of 2019 Boiler Brewing You Got Peanut Butter in My Mexican Chocolate 4.58 Jester King La Vie En Rose 4.48 The Lost Abbey Cuvee de Tomme 4.46 Laguntias Willetized Coffee Stout 4.46 Mumford Brewing Bossin 4.40 Top Rated Places of 2019 Jester King Brewing (Austin TX) 4.7 Boiler Brewing (Lincoln, NE) 4.53 Live Oak Brewing (De Valle TX) 4.37 Neighborhood (San Diego CA) 4.29 Tree House (Charlton MA) 4.22 Best Beer Experience of 2019 - Hitting up the new Ormond Garage Brewery with my Dad and my godson (his grandson), and having a flight of beer at Maui Brewing with brunch as I watched the sun rise over Waikiki.
1698 full beer reviews in 2019 from 440 breweries 172 breweries were tried for the first time, 8 of which opened in 2019. Best Beers: Arclight Soursmith Black Raspberry Southern Tier Nitro S'mores Austin Brothers Barrel Aged Sumo Sumatra Dugges / Stillwater - Speyside Cacao Transient Canuckley (TIE) Transient Kentuckley (TIE)
Looks like 555 new beers. Highest rated beer of the year: Weldwerks -- Starriest Night Lowest rated beer of the year: Elevation Beer Co. -- Three Amigos (on tap today) Top rated place: The Cellar in Taos, NM ...the above taken from BA data...
621 Total Beers 471 Unique Beers 406 New Beers Total of 6707.74oz. Translating to 18.3773oz a day. Need to cut back. Beers from 37 different states: The majority of them came from (in order of consumed volume): PA, VT, IA, MA, NY, NJ Most popular styles (in order of consumed volume): IPA, DIPA, APA, NEIPA, Helles Most consumed breweries: Toppling Goliath 491.9oz Lawson's 376oz Tree House 352oz Kane 232oz Three Floyds 212.5oz Most consumed beers: Sip of Sunshine 189oz Pseudo Sue 140oz Kane Sneak Box 128oz Magnify Low Visibility 118oz Von Trapp Natur Helles 112oz Cool Brewery visits: Tree House Aslin Toppling Goliath Equilibrium
After a quick glance, here's what I have: 387 reviews for 2019 Highest rated for 2019 CBS 4.6 BDCS 4.59 Underground Mountain Brown 4.54 Rochefort 8 4.52 Bamburana 4.5 Napa Parabola 4.5 Cafe Deth 4.5 I made a point to buy/try better beers in 2019 and it shows with 26 of my top 50 scores originating in 2019.
Your Year in Beer 499 Total Check-Ins 444 Unique Beers 163 Different Breweries 71 Different Styles Your Top 5 Most Checked-In Beers So many beers. So little time. Here’s what you really enjoyed drinking. M-43 by Old Nation Bourbon County Brand Stout 2019 by Goose Island King Sue by Toppling Goliath Two Hearted Ale by Bells Juice is Loose by Transient Top 5 Most Checked-In Breweries Everyone has favorite breweries. Which were yours? Let’s take a look. Brasserie Cantillon (29) Toppling Goliath (27) Goose Island (26) Side Project (21) Transient Artisan Ales (20) Where do you like to drink? Unique Venues 104 States / Regions 17 Countries 7
In 2019, I; Reviewed 204 new beers Reviewed seven of my top-ten-rated beers, including my new #1; White Elm Single Barrel Bourbon Barrel Aged Stout, a S'mores pastry stout which I rated 4.77 Reviewed only 16 new places. I drink mostly at home Over half of my packaged beer is in 16oz cans vs. bottles Despite once despising the styles, I've really gotten into trying/reviewing IPAs and Sours, mostly from Drekker I reviewed more Drekker beers (28) than any other brewery
According to Untappd; Unique beers; 201 Unique Breweries; 95 Unique styles; 74 Top 5 Check Ins; Pabst Blue Ribbon (go to a lot of shows) 21st Amendment Brewery Blood Orange Brew Free or Die 3 Floyds Zombie Dust Fat Head's Strange Magic Bascule Brewery Erie Ghost Ship Porter Top 5 Style Check Ins; IPA-American Lager-American IPA-Imperial/Dbl Pale Ale-American IPA-Session Top 5 most checked in breweries; Bascule Brewery & Public House Great Lakes Brewing 21st Amendment Brewery Pabst Brewing Co. Fat Head's Brewing Unique venues; 53 States; 5 Top Checked in Breweries; Bascule Brewing & Public House The Brew Kettle (Amherst, Ohio)
