Your Highest Deviation?

For me it’s corona light, +73% lolol. Highly underated summer/beach beer

 

Mine is bud light +99.5%
Opposite direction is New Belgium's Rampant IIPA, -73.6%

 

Hermitage Fruit Crate Pumpkin +30

Because I rated it 3.38 and it got savaged otherwise

Founders ReDANKulous -63

I may have had a bad batch, it was a drain pour

 

Highest is Ed Hardy Premium Beer at +96.2%
Lowest is Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier Marzen at -45.6%

 

Positive is Onward and Upward from Pike 51 at +45.57, but there is one only one other review. Of a beer people actually drink, it's Asahi Super Dry at 43.9

Negative is Keweenaw Widow Maker, infected, at -66.4. Lowest in the condition as intended was Sam Adams Third Voyage at -53.8

 

39.8 -- Trader Joe's Josephs Brau Vienna lager. Sadly, no longer available through TJ's.

FWIW -- I have 7 rDev ratings in the 30s -- almost all Lagers of various style.

 

Hopworks Abominable Winter Ale Gin Barrel: +35.7%
I remember nothing about this beer and I do not like gin, so I can’t account for this disparity on any level.

Hair of the Dog Ruth: -43.7%
Was totally flat, which for me is a cardinal sin when it comes to beer.

Both Oregon beers FWIW

 

I love that this beer simultaneously made an impression on you and didn’t make an impression on you.

 

To be fair, only two people rated it and the other one gave it a 1.67. My 3.5 rating seemed pretty reasonable.

 

Highest: Coors Light +44%
Lowest: Redhook Longhammer -39%

Coors light on a hot summer day isn’t horrible.
I actually liked Longhammer. Must have rated it a long time ago.

 

This little exercise has proved educational for me. My 4 highest rDevs are all NA beers, probably because I rate them 'to style' rather than likability. Those 4 range from 28.2 to 49.8 (Peroni Libera 0.0). The highest standard beer is Henry Weinhard's Private Reserve at +27%.

Interestingly, my most negative rDev is also an NA beer, Brew Dog's Hazy AF at -69.7%. I don't remember that beer, but it must have been a freaking mess.

 

"To-style" as in the Low Alcohol Beer category BA has, or to-style as in the style the brewery is trying to emulate?

 

To the style that the brewery is trying to emulate, but with the reservation that any NA version of a standard style is probably not going to be the real thing. The exception there is the Guinness 0.0 since it does come close to emulating its daddy.

 

Lol! I have not paid that much attention to it until you brought it up. I have a bunch of 20%+ ones and they are mostly Czech and German lagers. Makes sense though because the average BA reviewer underrates those beers by a wide margin. It continually amazes me how so few BA reviewers don't think there any any word class German or Czech lagers.

 

Bud Lite Lime 3.17 (+44.7%)

It was one of my first reviews about two weeks after I joined BA, 16 years ago.

I also tend to rate just about anything from Sam Adams higher than the average, as well as most German style beers.

 

My highest is 52.4% For Boundary Bay key Lime sour. Hurricane Malt Liquor gets a 52%. I have 7 beers of a 40+%rDev, and another 10 of 30+.

On the other hand -70.4% for New Belgium Lips Of Faith - Coconut Curry Hefeweizen. Nightmare fuel, that stuff. Another 5 beers got -60+%.

 

My highest is Miller Lite at 3.74 / +66%. I try to rate to style. For what it is, I think it’s pretty solid.

I have a few that are -20% but nothing very notable, mostly international beers from my travels. For example I rated Lotte Liquor - Krush Ice Blast Lager a 2.26 / -21.5% (South Korea).

Interestingly, both are “Light Lagers” on BA, perhaps this style just tends to be very polarizing?

 

To the positive: +38.6% for Cervecería Nacional Dominicana Presidente. Surprisingly delightful adjunct lager made in the DR that doesn't seem to get the respect (I think) it deserves. (https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/912/2910/)

To the negative: -43.0% for Xingu Black Beer. Easily one of the worst beers I've ever had, but a lot of folks seem to like it just fine.
(https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/2480/1314/)

 

+99.5% is pretty darn impressive. I just checked and to my shock I’ve never rated it.