Just as a reminder points are allocated as follows: Top rater of beers from a county gets 50 points, 2nd 49 points and so on for each person in the top 50. This is repeated for each county, and then totaled. Points are allocated in the order people appear on the top 50 list even if the have rated the same amount of beers as someone else.
Great that 192 different people make it into the top 50 of the 46 different counties, hopefully more ‘new comers’ will stretch that number by 31st December and RateBeer is used by more Brits.
Don’t worry mate, they don’t stay long and I doubt they will do another raid for a while. Gives you chance to creep back up a little before 1st Jan and the next issue of the stat.
My score dropped 10 from 858 to 848, but I went up 1 place (surprised by both to be honest).
Thanks for doing this Chris. Mmhh…I can only see me dropping steadily from now onwards. A few days in the UK shortly will see me pick up a number of new beers but overall I suspect that I am on a slow decline, but hey-ho I guess my Bavarian ratings are picking up.
You have plenty of beers to chose from in Bavaria @Fin, style choice a bit more limited I suppose, although I know the beer scene in Germany is changing rapidly and some new breweries are producing interesting stuff.
Hope your new life is all you hoped for and Loz is happy over there too.
Thanks Chris. I’m up 2, so going in the right direction but not as high as I thought. Then again if I gain a lot of position I’d worry that it’s become too easy & that we are losing too many UK Ratebeerians.
I am at the point where I can’t really drink any more beer than I already do. So when one county goes up, another suffers.
Just looked at where Cochem is. Interestingly we are heading back to the UK on Thursday for a week and have an overnight stop that evening, if I’d have known a few weeks ago we may well have arranged a night there and shared a beer with you, (if you were still there) however we are staying in northern Luxembourg (not too far away) and have already booked a hotel and table for evening meal.
I realised that I really needed to get a Luxembourg place rate on the board (stopping at a Brewpub/Hotel) . However with 155 Netherlands places and 148 Belgium places I shamefully had none for Luxembourg to complete the Benelux place sweep, just saying this in case anyone wanted to do a Benelux scoreboard, I think that I might do ok on that chart.
Leaving today, an evening in Brugge before the Chunnel on Thursday and home. Bishop Castle beer festival on Saturday!
Luxembourg is a good call, cheap fuel and booze. The government announces the fuel prices at 10:00 each morning and every petrol station has to sell at that price or below. My only Lux review is a supermarket.
That’s amazing about fuel prices in Luxembourg, I never knew that. However continuing (off beery topic) on a fuel related theme, I am also surprised at the frequency with which fuel prices go up and down here. For example there is an Esso garage in the next small town near us where prices are in a constant state of flux, if that is indeed the correct term. I can go into Freising and it will be I don’t know €1.34, I can pick Loz up and within 30-45 mins it may have dropped to €1.27 and even then you might be at the traffic lights (it’s opposite) and watch it change again, it reminds me of that bar in Berlin I think it was where beers were constantly seeing their prices change depending on their popularity. I filled up at €1.20 last night and today it’s €1.27
I’ll be typing in my Uk backlog (a couple of hundred at least) in the coming weeks/months, and expect to climb. And next month, I’m back in blighty to build up even more backlog.