![]() ![]() While all of these are in the range of great beers, none beat the highest score in my data set (see below). Mexican Cake – Average score 4.05, 504 ratings.Pliny the Younger – Average score 4.35, 751 ratings.KBS – Average score 4.28, 2,159 ratings.Hunahpu – Average score 4.29, 903 ratings.Heady Topper – Average score 4.24, 1,432 ratings.Westbrook Mexican Cake (though three variants were included)īefore you say “those missing beers are the best ever, and the lack of their ratings invalidates all your data,” I decided to go collect those ratings:.Cigar City Hunahpu (though eight variants were included).Three Floyds Dark Lord (plus eight variants).That said, here’s a list of “whalez” that were, and weren’t, included: I suspect some people will quickly say, “but did your data include ?” I don’t know if it did, I wasn’t after specific beers, I was after a huge amount of data. I think it’s simple and reasonable to assign the word good to 3, great to 4, and greatest to 5. So far we’ve been dealing with numbers, but at this point, I need to associate those numbers with words. The score for each beer is calculated from the ratings of at least ten individuals. What are we looking at here? The aggregate ratings of hundreds of thousands of people across thousands of beers. We can clearly see that the majority of beers in the set fall into the 3 and 4 range, with a slight majority between 3.5 and 4. This resulted in a dataset of 6,200 beers, having a total of 1,351,020 ratings, which I’ll be using to examine this topic. Many of the beers had very few ratings, so I decided to set my minimum rating threshold at ten ratings. In the end, I pulled in 12,709 records for 11,711 unique beers. I started going through the tags, testing one or two at first, then picking tags that I felt would bring in a large number of unique beers. Per the RateBeer data usage guidelines, I collected all ratings in March 2016. In the end, I found they have a section of tags that cover all levels of ratings for each beer with that tag all in a very easy to copy/paste format. Trying to copy and paste data from the styles doesn’t work because they only give you the top 50 of each style, the breweries didn’t work too well either thanks to lots of additional fields. I contacted Untappd and got shot down, then I emailed RateBeer and never heard back, but RateBeer does mention on one page about the acceptable use of their data. I could just write about my anecdotal evidence, personal thoughts, observations, and opinions, but I decided to collect some data to see if my observation is correct. Luckily, not very few beers are bad, though they are out there. ![]() My observation is that the vast majority of beer is very good, a bit of it is great, and very few things rank as the greatest. After over ten years of enjoying craft beer, and five years of really thinking about what I was drinking, I’ve realized that there is a minimal difference in most beer. ![]()
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