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I don't even care about other people's beer ratings. I just use RateBeer/BeerAdvocate to lookup ABV and caloric information.

mywittyname 9y ago
Same. As a whole, the American craft beer drinkers are obsessed with really hoppy beers, which I hate. So the ratings are completely useless, because a beer I hate will be like a 4.5 while a beer I love will be a 3.3. There's definitely an opportunity here for a better beer rating system. Get some equipment to analyze the chemical compounds of beers, automatically classify them and use it to recommend beers based on your personal flavor preferences.
- heywire 9y ago
  Check out Untappd
- newlyretired 9y ago
  Check out beergraphs.com, it has lots of different normalization lenses that might get you what you want. Founded by some baseball stathead writers, so takes a lot of the same approaches to data.
- matwood 9y ago
  > As a whole, the American craft beer drinkers are obsessed with really hoppy beers, which I hate. In standard American fashion, we are bad at subtlety. You want hops, we will make beer that tastes like you're chewing on raw hops. You want alcohol, the beer will taste like whiskey. While there are some exceptions (like Dogfish Head 90 minute IPA), this is the standard formula for American craft beers. The Belgians on the other hand can really 'craft' beer.
  - mywittyname 9y ago
    > The Belgians on the other hand can really 'craft' beer. Yeah they can. I think the last 3-4 six packs I've purchased were Belgian imports. They tend to have distinct flowery notes that I really enjoy.
bkjelden 9y ago
Expressing a beer rating as an average has always seemed problematic to me because different folks' tastes in beer vary so much. I'd rather have an app that looked at what I've highly rated and either paired me with users who highly rate similar beers, or just recommended beers those folks also rate highly that I haven't tried. In practice, I just have a few friends that I know have similar beer tastes as me that I regularly swap recommendations with.
nathancahill 9y ago
I use Untapped to keep track of what I liked, so when I'm buying it next time or in the store I can remember. All of the ratings consolidate around 3.5 or 4 anyway since people have different taste in beers (hoppy/creamy/fruity/etc).

mywittyname 9y ago

Same. As a whole, the American craft beer drinkers are obsessed with really hoppy beers, which I hate. So the ratings are completely useless, because a beer I hate will be like a 4.5 while a beer I love will be a 3.3. There's definitely an opportunity here for a better beer rating system. Get some equipment to analyze the chemical compounds of beers, automatically classify them and use it to recommend beers based on your personal flavor preferences.

heywire 9y ago
Check out Untappd
newlyretired 9y ago
Check out beergraphs.com, it has lots of different normalization lenses that might get you what you want. Founded by some baseball stathead writers, so takes a lot of the same approaches to data.
matwood 9y ago
> As a whole, the American craft beer drinkers are obsessed with really hoppy beers, which I hate. In standard American fashion, we are bad at subtlety. You want hops, we will make beer that tastes like you're chewing on raw hops. You want alcohol, the beer will taste like whiskey. While there are some exceptions (like Dogfish Head 90 minute IPA), this is the standard formula for American craft beers. The Belgians on the other hand can really 'craft' beer.
- mywittyname 9y ago
  > The Belgians on the other hand can really 'craft' beer. Yeah they can. I think the last 3-4 six packs I've purchased were Belgian imports. They tend to have distinct flowery notes that I really enjoy.

bkjelden 9y ago

Expressing a beer rating as an average has always seemed problematic to me because different folks' tastes in beer vary so much. I'd rather have an app that looked at what I've highly rated and either paired me with users who highly rate similar beers, or just recommended beers those folks also rate highly that I haven't tried. In practice, I just have a few friends that I know have similar beer tastes as me that I regularly swap recommendations with.

nathancahill 9y ago

I use Untapped to keep track of what I liked, so when I'm buying it next time or in the store I can remember. All of the ratings consolidate around 3.5 or 4 anyway since people have different taste in beers (hoppy/creamy/fruity/etc).