Very very few people care about your stats apart from you, if anyone. And there will always be another beer.
For me its less about numbers & more about satisfying a curiosity about tradition & history, key brewers, classic & modern styles, and a general understanding of beer in all its forms.
I find the number-chasing odd and ultimately pointless
In my top 50, 27 are definitely retired. Craft brewers gotta craft.
(And I’m way less into whale-hunting than most, I would guess many others have an even higher ratio.)
Edit: I note that you’ve assumed nothing rated highly after 2007 was available in 2007. I doubt this is true.
Yeah, it was mostly tongue in cheek. While it’s interesting to see how these things spread themselves over a decade of rating, I don’t think it really tells us much about the overall “quality” of the beer at any given point in time.
But you did raise an interesting question with your post - one that could be pulled out into its own stat-twat thread - so thanks for posting it. The problem is that “How many of your top-50 beers are retired?” is hard to answer accurately without quite a bit of effort, as the listings page doesn’t list the retirement status. (So perhaps it could be a ball-park-answer poll question?)
I’d go with that. When I first started if I thought a beer was average it scored 2.5. Now it’ll be 3. There are some I probably some I need to re-rate.Although I remain cautious of scoring over 4.
Whats interesting is how many i dont think its place so high now.
Definitly some that were Experience led, the experience boosted the Score, a few probably boosted by A liking for the Brewery, a few that were just favs at time, but would now just be middle of road
But actually still quite a lot of Beers that did actually make me go wow at the time
The aroma is so hot. My eyes begin to water. My face detects the chili. And that’s before drinking this. Adam Richman should take on a 6 pack challenge. About medium body. Flavor is chili! I’ll put this aside for awhile. My lips are now a little gummy, and I have fire from mouth to tum. The top of my head has begun to sweat - sure sign of significant capsaicin. Must have been fun being around this boil.
I was really cutting back last year, going a lot of times to just drink my PU that I love.
Did travel quite a bit, where I tend to rate.
Did visit a bunch of beer fests, where I rate at some.
All in all, seems 2017 was the year with my highest number of entries since joining ratebeer, at 1427.
That is without a bunch of the backlog I couldn’t be bothered to enter from the fall, until I did in January and February.
So without trying, but with some travel and a few festivals, and rating the beers my wife get at the bar while I’m sipping PU, I averaged almost 4 ticks/rates per day in the end.