Beer review pet peeves

Maybe OE and Tokay are the thing for you uptown sippers, but passin' bottles round an oil drum fire give me Colt and Mad Dog every time

 

The thing about you is, you never just come out and say what you really think.

 

You just jealous that you can't even grow a neckbeard.

 

Purely mathematically, I believe that the overall rating can exceed the average of its components. I've rated some beers that way - particularly in the case of an obscure style (where I give "style points" for brewing it). But the review should explain why. Just an example (without verifying), I may have rated a beer 4.25/4.25/4.25/4.25/4.5, but if I have, then I've explained why. I agree that some of the ratings make no sense. On BA (as opposed to Untappd), I believe we have the responsibility to explain our ratings.

 

I don't really read a lot of reviews except those that get payed on the forums. My biggest pet peeve is when they're the length of a damn novella. Get to the Damn point!
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On the issue of overall, I find myself more often giving a lower overall than the individual attributes would suggest. To me, there's a lot of beers that hit the technical specs fine but then don't really pull it all together into something all that excellent.

Lots of ipas, especially, that I give a 4-4.5 on the first four criteria but overall, 3.75 to me

 

I will rate the overall lower than the other ratings might indicate if I think the beer was overpriced, not what it was advertised to be, etcetera. And, I mean, honestly, who cares?

 

It’s not a hobby, it’s a lifestyle!

 

Can you explain what makes it objectively mediocre? What beer would objectively be the “best to style” malt liquor?

@Resistance88

 

I drank colt 45, Magnum, hurricane, stack, st ides, schlitz , earthquake, 211, 211 black , oe800 and so many others , but nothing compared to OE800 in my opinion based on what was going on around me( city i was in, people i was around etc. . )

I guess Everything it makes you feel at the moment.

Sometimes the same beer has been a 3 that was a 5 at another moment in my world.


I don't rate beer anymore and really don't care to, there's so much other shit I'd rather do with my time .

I either like it or i don't and im not gonna be a dildo and write about it .

 

BA score is the average (with weight to certain components) of my score. My score for the overall category is my overall impression of the beer.

I don't really have any beer review pet peeves since I hardly read reviews anymore. The only thing that I really dislike is non-descriptive reviews. Either take the time to convey your experiences in all five categories, or simply stick to applying only a rating.

 

The “overall” category score can sometimes be higher or lower than the individual attributes scores because beers can be more or less than the sum of their parts. Why this would bother anybody is beyond me.

 

One thing I do notice with reviews sometimes — and I may have even been guilty of this when I started reviewing — is when people describe a beer’s mouthfeel as “dry.” Nope, I don’t buy it. You beer definitely felt wet. If you mean dry in that it lacked lingering sweetness, that’s taste, not mouthfeel.

Good things to describe in mouthfeel include the weight of the feel (heavy, thick, full, light, thin, medium-bodied), the carbonation (fizzy, still, flat, lightly-carbonated, over-carbonated) and other touch adjectives (slick, oily, milky, silky, pillowy, gritty, sticky, etc).

 

My pet peeve is not enough people writing reviews.

 

for beers like BBT i see this a lot, a buncha 5 rstingz with 0 description
I just imagine a buncha hypebois giving out 5s just cuz they feel like they had to

 

I use “dry” as it pertains to mouthfeel as a relative term. If a beer “finishes dry,” to me that means it almost evaporates off the palate (as opposed to a heavier beer that lingers and coats the palate). Maybe I’m misusing the term but it’s the best way I can describe the feeling—and it’s not a flavor or taste, but a feeling. In my mouth. A mouthfeel, if you will.

 

"Great beer...but not worth the price of admission"

Since when did price point become a ratable beer attribute??? This is 100% a consumer problem. So you paid big money for one of them fancy beers and what the heavens above did not open for you!?!? There is a market for those Anchorage beers...maybe it's just not you Brodie!

There is another fairly well known BA who will automatically deduct .25 from the overall score if there is no BB dating on the product. So now we are factoring in packaging too? smh

 

that's why reviews are stupid. they're just opinions, no one cares

 

I'll defend putting the overall score higher than any of the other categories.
As an example, let's say a beer got 4s in Look, Smell, Taste, and Feel, then you get to Overall. Everything's good, no gripes. Maybe no single area quite reached that 4.25 threshold, but was better than just a 4. When it all comes together it's clearly better than just a flat 4 average. There's only so many ways to differentiate with 0.25 increments and this has worked pretty well for me. I'll usually submit my score, then go back through my most recent 50 beer scores and make sure it accurately slides into place vs them. Is this 4.05 better than the last few 4.02s? Was it not quite as good as the last 4.07? I'm usually pretty happy with my final number.