Using BeerAdvocate Data to Make Beer Predictions

@Junior there is some wisdom here. When looking to purchase an unknown, I am more likely going to look at specific reviews (users who's palate aligns with mine) vs the score to see what was said about that beer or who rated it and how. I find that my taste/preferences tend to line up with some others on the site. I think for something like this to work in real life, it would need to be approached in a couple of ways. 1) take your beer reviews and compare it with others and weight them to see who is most in line with you. Then you could come up with a list of beers that perhaps they have had that you haven't that were rated above a certain ##. 2) feed a list of users who you share the same type of palate with and have it perform the same function against those users beers. 2 requires less work/cpu but more work on your side.

 

Looking forward to more, especially what I may not be able to learn from reading reviews...

(BTW that RR is basically the same as it used to be. You’ve changed, not it. )

 

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I don't know about that RR issue. It doesn't seem as well knitted together as before. But it had been quite a while between those different beers. Maybe 15 years. So......

 

Well, that was when it was still being brewed in the glasslined tanks of Old Latrobe. After the sale to AB the pros at AB invested a great deal of time and taste testing to get the overall flavor profile "right." (Including a DMS brewing flaw.)

 

You shouldn’t need an app, just keep trying new things. You’ll find breweries that can do no wrong for you, styles you like and don’t like etc. The whole fun of this hobby is trying things, I don’t need an app to tell me what I may like, I have a pretty good idea.