How many beers do you need to reach 50 in each of England’s Counties?
I know loads of you have hundreds of rates for some, but what about the lesser ones?
I only need 173 more beers to arrive at 50 for every County, but a massive 1070 to reach 100.
10 Counties under 50 with Dorset at 48, just 11 from the Isle of Wight and 22 from Rutland.
A further 15 Counties are below 100. Close to 100 are Wiltshire (97), Oxfordshire (96) and Lancashire (95).
Looking at my ‘stash’ it doesn’t seem to help much, all coming from the big hitters rating wise and not from the more difficult to find Counties. Something I may well think about and alter a little.
Not so many, but Rutland (42 needed) and IoW (46) not very likely without a concerted effort. I know @AshtonMcCobb got in to Warwickshire (25) with mail order, but the Warwick Real Ale shop has stopped UK shipping since. Worcestershire (24) and Buckinghamshire (23) means a quite low total of 160.
I initially ignored this as I thought it might be about weight gain, and I’m head in the sand with that one! Having seen the real subject, perhaps I should still have ignored it as I only have 3 counties above 50 rates (West Yorkshire, Shropshire & Greater London) - pulling the target down to 10 per county and I need 123 beers to complete the 19 counties that are lacking, but doubt I will ever manage it for Isle of Wight.
Seeing as I have 215 English rates with not one county over 50, it would take me 2085 beers to get each to 50, fortunately, I got three English beers in my fridge, so important progress will be made.
I don’t actively seek new beers based on county so I wouldn’t expect any rapid progress here. In the natural course of things I reckon I’ll get these numbers down!
I currently have 15 regions at 50+ but would take a whopping 916 rates to replicate that for all regions.
I am only 5 beers short on Worcestershire, so happy with that but still have 7 regions with less than 10 rates, namely: East Yorkshire, Lancashire, Wiltshire, Leicestershire, Essex and the obvious other two. This thread is a good incentive for me to correct that this year - except on IOW and Rutland because that is just not going to happen!
12 English regions over 50 for me, and 6 regions with 100+ rates
2112 English rates but 51% of those from just six counties.
I need a (not particularly achievable) 1041 more rates to achieve 50 in each region, including 3 counties where I’m less than 10 short. More realistically I need 179 more rates to achieve 20 in each region.
I’ve definitely been targeting certain English county’s beers to get on the Top 50 list, to the detriment of other counties.
I’ll keep plugging away, might come back to this thread in a few months time.
I’ve had a paltry 12 rates from Rutland and 20 from the Isle of Wight! All others are over 50. In other news I am almost up to date with my infamous backlog
How many beers do you need to reach 50 in each of England’s Counties?
I know loads of you have hundreds of rates for some, but what about the lesser ones?
I only need 173 more beers to arrive at 50 for every County, but a massive 1070 to reach 100.
Little update from me.
To get 50 of each county I now need 159, a slow movement of 14 new rates. To get every county to 100 however has powered along with 989 now required, 81 new rates (including the 14 already mentioned).
Happy enough with those stats as I haven’t really been trying to improve this area of my beer drinking. A trip up to the North East is the real reason I’ve progressed.
I have 15 counties under 50 rates, and would require 358 to bring these up to speed. If I actually attended more CAMRA beer festivals around the country I’d no doubt do these counties serious damage but for the time being, it’s random rates here and there.
I did consider cycling over to Rutland, to bump up my ticks from ONE (the only chance to really get any) but I was put off by the 3hr22 train journey back with 3 changes.
I need 27 West Glamorgan rates to complete min 50 for every Welsh region.
