What's your Average Beer Rating?

Mine's 3.9, thought it would be higher for some reason. Still pretty cool to see my average rating though!

 

4.04 which seems about right. I probably drank more than double the number of beers than I’ve rated, and I have to be pretty motivated to take the time to do so.

It also seems natural to me that with time as a better educated drinker I become more selective in my purchases and better able to determine what’s worth opening.

 

I'm very surprised, 3.49. I would have guessed maybe a 3.65 or so.

 

Here on BA my average is 3.85.
On Untappd it's about 3.61
I tend to rate everything I consume on Untappd, here not so much....my bad!

 

4.07, which seems awfully high but as I look at individual beer ratings I'm generally within about 2.5% of the average. One interesting aspect of my ratings is that I'm often below average on some of the highest rated beers. Perhaps, I'm grading on a curve. I guess that's okay so long as I'm consistent. An umpire may call a high strike zone but as long as he's consistent he's fair to both teams.

 

4.09


As already started numerous times. I just about know what I’m going to like from experience, hearsay and just research on websites like this. It’s rare that I go outside the box. So as long as the beer is isn’t awful. It’s around a 4. Which would be about 80% if translated to a test style score. I would say a B-/C+ is about my average for beers. Which seems to be about right on average.

 

4.01

Not surprised, after all I use the info on this site to limit the less than good-great beer I may purchase/consume.

 

What can I say, people like beer.

 

4.2 and 300 beers. I'd like that number to be lower, but A. I try to seek out beers I think I'll truly enjoy, and B. As of recently, I realised my standards have become a bit more refined, and what was a 4.2 a year ago is likely closer to a 4 now. I'm a bit less forgiving these days, and don't let outside influences such as hype or expectations influence my reviews. I need to revisit a few, and possibly update my reviews/ratings - something I've done a several times, often needing to lower my scores.

My personal approach to reviewing and rating:

For me, a 5 has never been reached. A 4.69 is the best beer I've had to-date. A 4.5 is an amazing beer I will seek out with effort. Stunning example of the style. 4.2 is, "This is really quite great". It isn't mind-blowing, but I would almost certainly purchase again if given the chance. No major flaws. A 4 is a very good to great example of the style. Maybe one or two minor subjective flaws, I'll drink it again, maybe buy it, maybe not. 3.75-3.5 is a good beer. Not bad, not great. Often lacking complexity or true craftsmanship, but still perfectly drinkable. I could take it or leave it. 3 is some noticeable flaws, often with one or two distracting flaws. An okay beer, but I would never purchase it. Anything between 1 and 2.75 is just varying degrees of not good.

That's just my take.

 

7.5/10

 

4.03. I expect to be in the 4 range various reasons. It probably should be lower, but hell, when I'm drinking beer, I tend to be happy and positive!

 

Mine is at 3.68. I believe that it's because, for the longest time, I emulated the misguided menfolk of Krikkit, and said 'It'll all have to go' (or maybe that Pokemon thing I never really cared enough to understand), and succeeded in reviewing every beer available in my distribution jurisdiction. Things have certainly changed since I last did that.

 

Well sure the more you drink of one style the more familiar you get, the more the run of the mills all blend together and the outliers remain memorable (looking at you New England IPAs). But, you're damn right I look up a beer before I go for it. That's the core of this site; to provide knowledge and information to others...it's counter intuitive to not utilize that. If given a choice to spend my money on, or trade for, a beer that has reviewers talking about it tasting like dish soap or diacytl I'm certainly going to pass. It's simply hedging your bets. I've ripped into my fair share of 4.5+ beers that leave me scratching my head wondering how that score could be possible and been genuinely perplexed at outstanding beers with sub 3.75. Both cases always tend to lead to memorable reviews. And prank beers for one reason or another, those are a blast.

 

I'm at 3.83. I think that is fair. I consider 3.75 average or the median/mean. Some superb beers skew the average. I drain poor some of the bad ones. I just wish my standard deviation was higher. Some beers are difficult to judge and default around 3.75. I'm often hesitant to provide too high or low of a rating. Happy with the 3.83 though and happy to see that others have ended up quite similar. Standardization by accident.

 

My ratings come in at a mean of 3.82. Not surprising. It takes a poor rendering to rate a 3 or lower and something pretty exceptional to rate a 4.2 or higher. Further I rate a beer only on its merits and how they compare against other beers of the same style. An adjunct lager should not be rated in terms of what one thinks about the style. It should be approached with the same objectiveness you would give to a style you really like. I drink a wide variety of styles from a broad array of breweries and often do so blindly, without considering whether I might like it or not and I always try to be objective based on what I know about similar beers. By doing so ratings below 3.5, while they do exist, become pretty uncommon. I give a few beers a 4.3 or more.

 

I'm at a 3.97 average on 857 beers. Looking back at my earlier reviews I tended to rate a lot beers under 4. Still, I thought I'd be well over 4 because most of the beers I reviewed the past couple of years have been well over 4. I look at reviews and scores when deciding whether to buy a beer, and though I don't go purely by that, I usually gravitate to beers rated over 4.

 

3.89. about what I expected

Median and mode are 4.0

Why? Because I want to drink good beer

 

3.07. Seems high if the goal is a true curve/C average.

 

3.85

Now, if I could just figure out how to post pictures again I’d be more active

 

3.42 which is a little bit lower then I expected, but not by much, as I was expecting 3.5. I generally don't give beers full 1's or 5's since I have yet to find a beer I would say was perfect in every way or conversely without any merits at all, so that's going to favour the middle ground right there. I also am a strange one who will occasionally seek out a beer I'm pretty sure will be bad, just to confirm and put my two cents in on it.