Beer Rating Etiquitte (backlogging)

Are your previous ratings to the same rating scale as the Beer Advicate reviews? If so, I don't see a problem. You can't rate multiple vintages though so pick one Darkness year to input a review, just make sure you state what year it was.

 

I find my personal tastes change over time. Kind of like with food as well. Used to be able to eat super hot spicy foods, now I don't care for them as much. Hated brussel sprouts, now love them. Beers I used to think were very good, I don't care for now and vice versa. But then again, anyone's rating on this board is merely a snap shot in time of what they had in front of them and what and how they rated it. If a beer went through a significant change in some way between the time you drank and reviewed it and now, putting the review up now probably wouldn't have a lot of value - other than posterity.

 

If it is on a 5 scale then I don't see why not. I guess any scale would be fine, assuming you can do basic math.

 

It's fine. People bring their lists from other sources here, and take their BA lists to other places (Untappd, RB) regularly. It's just electrons, they'll make more.

 

I'd say to throw them all up there, but then again the ratings don't mean much to me.

 

I don't see any problem with bringing over your old ratings. You drank the beers, you rated them, why should it matter what site you were a member of at the time?

 

I would add "Reviewed from notes taken on [Date]" to those reviews, if for no sake but your own. I think it's sort of rare for people to actually read through other peoples reviews, but this way if they do, they will know approximately what batch you had and when you drank it. Beer changes, so that's helpful information. I do this occasionally from hand written notes, so I see no difference doing it from notes on another website.

 

Completely acceptable but don't go from memory.

 

Beer Advocate frowns on rating beers from memory but if you have your reviews written down then go for it.

 

I do this. I'll write reviews up & mean to input them in a timely manner. Some times there's a rather long delay.

 

Just remember BA is not a 0-5 scale. It is 1-5. 3 is the middle, not 2.5.
I've been called out over this and had to correct the other person, politely.

Generally, electrons are neither created nor destroyed.
(Technically they will change form by nuclear and quantum reactions)