This time however, no need to put your ‘Willy Waving’ rating totals, just the percentage. Give the new guys and lower raters a chance to play without feeling inadequate or unwanted.
List your top countries that total more than 1% of your overall rating total.
England 44.9%
US 13.8%
Germany 8.4%
Belgium 8.0%
Scotland 4.8%
Wales 2.6%
Spain 1.8%
Netherlands 1.7%
France 1.2%
Denmark 1.0%
So ten countries over 1.0%, giving me 88.2% of my ratings, leaving 11.8% from the rest of the world.
According to “My Countries and Regions” the totals are
England 71.2%
Latvia 9.6%
Scotland 3.7%
Wales 2.8%
Poland 2.3%
Belgium 1.9%
Germany 1.6%
Ireland 1.5%
USA 1.3%
Netherlands 1.2%
However, Scotland total is inflated due to RB counting all the Beer 52 “fake brewery” beers as coming from there, when they are actually brewed mainly in Belgium and Germany.
95% of my ratings. I’ve been to all of them except Germany and Denmark. They also come out higher than Wales, Ireland, and France, which I have also visited so that’s maybe an interesting commentary on how few local ticks I got on those trips!
Same for me, I can be at Cardiff or Newport in that time! Just never been that enticed by Welsh beers in all honesty. However, Polly’s are ever impressive and Wild Horse has been a recent revelation for me so there is some attraction now. And I suppose there’s always Tiny Rebel and to a lesser degree Crafty Devil for easy ticks.
My Welsh rates so far have been Tiny Rebel and a number £1.50 bottle offerings at Morrisons with mixed quality but always nice to discover new breweries and regions.
I did try a Polly’s barley wine recently which was very good but generally I only like to pay over £3.50 a beer on local breweries as it can get expensive otherwise. Therefore I suspect it will be more cheap Welsh beers from me going forward!
UK total is over 85% of my rates - I clearly need to get out more!
It’s nice to have diversity of choice but my foreign ratings have absolutely plummeted over the last 3-5 years, even pre-pandemic.
For years it was a huge deal to cross the border to the US, but the domestic craft beer market has improved so much in terms of quality AND quantity that the lure of bring a big haul from the US is mostly gone. With 300+ craft breweries in Ontario, getting beer that’s been shipped across the country (or world!) is less appealing unless it’s truly top tier and worth the effort.
