What's your Average Beer Rating?

3.79

FWIW, my untappd average sits at 3.70

 

My average is 4.03. I will say, I try to rate AALs against the style and thus am relatively generous to them when compared to their broader averages.

 

How about a couple of poles, one for Lager drinkers and one for Ale drinkers.
Each pole would offer choices for members to input their Average Rating, e.g. 1 to 1.9, 2 to 2.9 etc. I'm at work right now so I can't spend that much time on this.

Lagers tend to rate lower than Ales, it would be interesting to see by how much.

If you're a 1/2 Lager 1/2 Ale reviewer then vote in both poles, why not.
I'm at 3.93 and mostly review Ales.

 

4.14 for my 3,200 reviews. what can I say, I like beer!

I like the analysis. I feel bad for Missouri...all those Anheiser Busch beers rated really bring down the state average for all of the out of state Beer Advocates (like me) who may have only had a chance to rate a few Side Project brews but have like 50+ AB beers with low ratings . Very misleading state by state stats can be derived out of this IMO.

Maybe there is a way to exclude macro/non-craft beers from the statistics

 

Click "Styles" , & you'll see your average rating for each style.

 

I had to LOL at mine. 3.96 avg.

It looks like a left skew chi-square distro with skew bias down from 4-3.5 range.

My highest rDevs are mostly in American Adjunct Lager, American Adjunct Light Lagers, Malt Liquor and some German Pilsners. I guess I try to rate them to style and merit for their classification.

One of my 5 lowest rDev is -10% for CBS. Still gave it a 4.23.

 

I just looked , &..... my Missouri avg is 3.54. As you suggested, the AB-Inbev products drag down the # , that the Boulevard & Perennial beers put up.

 

3.50 , i'm a cynic apperently , darn hehe

 

Either you buy marginal beers or think you are a tough rater. It must be that the beers are marginal in Saint Martin. Stay at home and you'll have better beers.

 

No, it's just that most beers are nearer to average than they are either above or below average. Just look at some of the comments upthread along the lines of " Well, I only buy beers that I expect to like or are highly rated, so I tend to rate them highly". Some folks have made a decision before they've opened the beer. I do my best to keep an open mind going in, I don't look at scores before I review, I try beers from every style, even styles I don't really care for (murkbombs, coffee beers, scotch ales).

If folks were being more honest with themselves, they'd realize that most beers within a given style are much closer together, making it harder to find those that genuinely stand out, for the better or the worse.

 

3.82. I think a lot of my real high scores came when I was first starting to review and a little overexcited how good they were. Since then I've re-reviewed a lot and some stayed the same but many dropped either slightly or in some rare cases substantially.

I see I still have 15 at 5.0 which is too many and browsing the list just now I could drop that to at least 10 with some re-reviews. Some though were one-offs so they are what I said they were I guess. A few others I still think are deserving of 5.0 (Andechser Doppelbock, Westmalle Tripel, Meister Brau, etc)

 

Average Beer Rating of 3.79, with 869 Ratings. Seems slightly below where I would have expected the average to be, would have expected around 3.85 (not far off). Appears mainly due to having rated some 'bad' beers (14 below 2) and refusing to give out a 5 (highest beer rating 4.71).

The bell curve does represent what I would expect: <3.00: 4%, 3.00: 3%, 3.25: 8%, 3.5: 12%, 3.75: 35%, 4.00: 29%, 4.25: 8%, 4.5: 1%, >4.5: 0%. Which lines up with how I rate: 3.25: Alright, 3.5: Fine/Good, 3.75: Pretty/Very Good, 4.00: Outstanding, 4.25: Amazing, 4.5: Best of the Best.

I try to rate to style and found some of the by style ratings interesting as well. In reviewing the 24 styles that I've had at least 10 ratings, the results follow. The highest was American Imperial Stout at 4.13, followed by several styles very closely, all within 4.02 - 4.05, American Imperial IPA, New England IPA, American Stout, Russian Imperial Stout, (listed in order of ratings). And the lowest was American Light Lager at 1.89, followed by the American Adjunct Lager at 2.26, then Fruit and Field Beer at 3.3, and English IPA at 3.48. Which leaves 15 styles between 3.54-3.95. I excluded the other 62 styles that I've had because I've rated less then 10 beers and did not feel like that small of a sample size was representative of anything, especially because for harder to find styles I typically try to have a top rated one.
Cheers!

 

I would think tickers would have lower overall scores just because they’re open to trying everything, and some beers just suck.

 

At 4.03, I thought I'd be a bit higher because I normally stay within my comfort zone (IPA's).

One of my downside traits is, I usually won't rate a beer in a style I'm not familiar with.. but if I do decide to rate it, I won't dog the beer due to my lack of knowledge.

I wonder if my ratings go up with each beer on any given night.. then plummet as I get too buzzed? Ahh.. who cares!

 

Me too. I rarely stray out of my comfort zone, so it would be a shitty ipa that would make me score it 4. In my world a 4 is an average ipa, it’s just ok, it’s not great or mind bending. A pretty good ipa is in the 4.25 range, and its above a 4.4 plus your getting to the top shelf stuff.

 

4.02. I generally only rate beers that I like.

 

4.12 - I wonder how mine has fluctuated over time. I would guess that it has gone down this past year.

 

3.96 -- about what I expected. Like other folks have posted, I generally only buy/review beers that are in the top 1,000 on BA. Living in Boston makes this task remarkably easy
Highest rated style: Gruit (4.27 average)
Lowest rated: American light lager (2.13 average)
Most rated: NEIPA (4.23 average)