Your Top 10 Beer Styles Stats

American IPA | 325 | 13.52%
American Wild Ale | 221 | 9.19%
Saison / Farmhouse Ale | 204 | 8.49%
American Double / Imperial IPA | 157 | 6.53%
American Pale Ale (APA) | 156 | 6.49%
American Double / Imperial Stout | 116 | 4.83%
American Porter | 54 | 2.25%
Russian Imperial Stout | 44 | 1.83%
Fruit / Vegetable Beer | 43 | 1.79%
Berliner Weissbier | 41 | 1.71%
Gose | 40 | 1.66%
American Stout | 40 | 1.66%

Funky representing, take that top 3!

 

Not premium either, but no surprises here, other than the vast variety of mediocre lagers appearing on this list. I guess that and the fact that no one beer style makes up even 10% of my list.

American IPA | 131 | 8.50%
American Pale Ale | 83 | 5.39%
American Double / Imperial IPA | 57 | 3.70%
Saison / Farmhouse Ale | 54 | 3.50%
Fruit / Vegetable Beer | 46 | 2.99%
Euro Pale Lager | 44 | 2.86%
American Adjunct Lager | 39 | 2.53%
English Pale Ale | 38 | 2.47%
German Pilsener | 35 | 2.27%
Amber / Red Ale | 35 | 2.27%

 

We're getting closer every day to more RIS options on the shelves.

I just picked up a BA barleywine this past week, and I'm so excited!

 

I was shocked to see that IPA made my top 10 list (though just barely), given that I don't care for them. In the interest of keeping an open mind, I do keep trying them. Out of 582 reviews, not surprised that five of the top eight were stouts, comprising 41.06%. Ya, I like stouts, but I've reviewed 102 of 104 styles.

American Double / Imperial Stout | 112 | 19.24%
Milk / Sweet Stout | 45 | 7.73%
American Porter | 37 | 6.36%
Russian Imperial Stout | 35 | 6.01%
American Stout | 32 | 5.5%
Pumpkin Ale | 24 | 4.12%
American Brown Ale | 16 | 2.75%
Oatmeal Stout | 15 | 2.58%
Märzen / Oktoberfest | 12 | 2.06%
American IPA | 11 | 1.89%

 

I assume the count on these lists are how many differently named beers of that style one has drank. Given that bit of info, you could drink a lot more stouts than IPAs but have these numbers skew it the other way. There are one-off IPAs being churned out in mass quantity, not as much with other styles. Of course, no one is keeping track of every serving of beer they drink, so my point is pretty much moot. Still posting it

 

After all that cred you built up with those stouts and porters, you let those pumpkin ales sneak in... sad...

 

Love the new data breakdowns!

American Double / Imperial IPA | 418 | 23.27%
American IPA | 331 | 18.43%
American Double / Imperial Stout | 170 | 9.47%
Russian Imperial Stout | 63 | 3.51%
American Barleywine | 41 | 2.28%
American Pale Ale (APA) | 37 | 2.06%
Tripel | 36 | 2%
Saison / Farmhouse Ale | 36 | 2%
American Strong Ale | 32 | 1.78%
American Amber / Red Ale | 30 | 1.67%

I'm pleased that my favorite 5 styles are the top five on the list... (though in my mind, I lump English and american barleywines together (English barleywines came in at 12 (1.61%)) and I also tend to lump the RIS with the "regular" imperial stouts, though the latter move skews the aesthetics a bit as I prefer tripels to APAs)...

Also dug the state breakdown...
New York | 495 | 27.56%
California | 267 | 14.87%
Massachusetts | 103 | 5.73%
Illinois | 91 | 5.07%
Colorado | 71 | 3.95%

And the country breakdown...
United States | 1481 | 82.46%
Belgium | 56 | 3.12%
United Kingdom | 34 | 1.89%
Germany | 19 | 1.06%
Canada | 16 | 0.89%

Cheers...

 

Actually, the high number of pumpkin beers is due to an unfulfilled quest to find the best. Several have been good or excellent, and Avery Pump[KY]n was near-outstanding, but I have yet to find pumpkin-pie-in-a-bottle. They all taste more like beer!

 

There's nothing wrong with experimentation. I'm currently delving into sours a bit and the results are very mixed.

 

1. Saison/Farmhouse Ale (72)
2. American IPA (26)
3. American Double/Imperial IPA (17)
4. American Wild Ale (16)
5. American Double/Imperial Stout (14)
6. American Pale Ale (13)
7. Belgian Quadrupel Ale (12)
8. Belgian Tripel Ale (11)
9. Russian Imperial Stout (10)
9. Gueuze (10)
10. German Pilsner (7)

I wish I was able to review more of the styles I love the most, but I tend to review what I can get my hands on, and so the styles that show up here reflect that. Saison is easily my favorite style, but beyond that many of these styles are far from my top five. I wish I could review more Biere de Garde, but honestly they are hard enough to find as it is, especially taking into account that I very much prefer the traditional french take on the style.

 

Good point. Though 41.06% of the new-to-me beers I've reviewed are stouts, probably 85% of the beers I drink are stouts, and most of those are BBA or RBA. I rarely buy anything in quantity > 1 unless it is BBA/RBA stout or porter. I suppose we wouldn't see that in the numbers unless each beer we've reviewed had a +1 button. I doubt many would want that kind of drinking history/evidence/reality kept.

 

Pale Ales, Mild Ales and Porters are the only styles I have drunk in any quantity. These of course include all the substyles such as IPAs (UK and US), barley wine and Stout

 

American IPA | 225 | 22.17%
American Double / Imperial IPA | 127 | 12.51%
American Double / Imperial Stout | 82 | 8.08%
American Pale Ale (APA) | 59 | 5.81%
Fruit / Vegetable Beer | 39 | 3.84%
Saison / Farmhouse Ale | 34 | 3.35%
Russian Imperial Stout | 29 | 2.86%
American Wild Ale | 24 | 2.36%
American Porter | 22 | 2.17%
American Brown Ale | 21 | 2.07%

I go down to number 12 to find pumpkin beers. I'm unashamed!!!

Michigan | 176 | 17.34%
California | 108 | 10.64%
Arkansas | 90 | 8.87%
Virginia | 73 | 7.19%
New York | 52 | 5.12%

I haven't lived in Michigan since 2005 and I've haven't been to California since 2011. But I currently live in Arkansas and lived in Virginia from 2013-2016.

 

No surprise on mine either.

American IPA | 233 | 17.41%

American Double / Imperial IPA | 184 | 13.75%

American Double / Imperial Stout | 135 | 10.09%

American Pale Ale (APA) | 64 | 4.78%

Saison / Farmhouse Ale | 64 | 4.78%

American Wild Ale | 62 | 4.63%

American Porter | 44 | 3.29%

Gose | 43 | 3.21%

Milk / Sweet Stout | 37 | 2.77%

American Stout | 35 | 2.62%

 

Mine would be English Pale Ale, followed almost equally by English Bitter, Belgian Pale, Witbier, American Blonde, Vienna, English Brown, and American Pale Lager...

 

Pale Ale and Bitter are two names for precisely the same thing.If it was sold on draught in a pub it was called Bitter,the same brew sold in bottled form was labelled Pale Ale.
I used to enjoy Youngs Bitter. But it didn't exist in the brewery records. Just PA.

 

I agree wholeheartedly. I try to punctuate just how easy it is to 'tick' IPAs with the variety within the style in the perennial 'Why IPA' threads, but you've done a great job of condensing it.

Someone could consume an entire case of Breakfast Stout, but as long as they rated half of the beers in a Sierra Nevada mix 12 pack, their BA total would make others believe they mostly consume IPAs. With all the one-off IPAs, or how every brewery seems to have at least one IPA offering, it would be easy for consumption by style stats to be thrown off.

Still, it's intriguing stuff. I enjoy looking at what styles people have rated/reviewed. The data shown so far in this thread would help explain the reason the Top 250 are so IPA heavy.

 

The stats listed in this thread are using the beer styles listed on this site and which of those styles a beer is assigned.

English ale styles on this site are:

• Baltic Porter
• Braggot
• English Barleywine
• English Bitter
• English Brown Ale
• English Dark Mild Ale
• English India Pale Ale (IPA)
• English Pale Ale
• English Pale Mild Ale
• English Porter
• English Stout
• English Strong Ale
• Extra Special / Strong Bitter (ESB)
• Foreign / Export Stout
• Milk / Sweet Stout
• Oatmeal Stout
• Old Ale
• Russian Imperial Stout
• Winter Warmer

Individual beers are "assigned" a style by the person entering the beer. If the style is in error, a member can use the "beer tools>suggest edit" to correct the error.

RB lists 80 styles.
This site lists 104 styles.
The Brewers Association lists 152 styles.

All have a separate style listed for Bitter and English Pale Ale (although words slightly differ on the different lists).

 

hey new stats! fun times...

let's see here... my top 10 consumptions:

1. American IPA | 459 | 10.82%
2. American Double / Imperial IPA | 283 | 6.67%
3. American Double / Imperial Stout | 229 | 5.4%
4. American Pale Ale (APA) | 204 | 4.81%
5. Saison / Farmhouse Ale | 189 | 4.45%
6. Tripel | 143 | 3.37%
7. American Porter | 121 | 2.85%
8. American Wild Ale | 118 | 2.78%
9. Russian Imperial Stout | 98 | 2.31%
10. American Amber / Red Ale | 95 | 2.24%