My first 5.0

https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/lervig-pohjala-rackhouse-night-by-the-lake/984351/138581/

What a beer. Maybe I’m too generous on the night, but after 6175 rates I finally found a beer that I couldn’t fault?

Am I getting soft? Will there be too many more in the future? How many 5.0 beers do my fellow raters have?

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No 5s for me.
My highest rate is one at 4.6 followed by four at 4.5 (two of which were Westvleteren)
Maybe I’m a stingy rater.
I can’t see me ever drinking a perfect beer…

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I have one @4.9 and four with 4.8, but nothing with a perfect score of 5.

My overall average is 3.17, but that is because I will try anything from anywhere and that often means cheap and nasty lagers.

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I’ve rated two at 4.6 and four at 4.5.

My average score given is 3.07 against a site average of 3.17 (my score has increased over time from sub-3 as better beer has become more available, but has always been about 0.1 below the site average).

I’m clearly also in the stingy raters club!

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I am also stingy. At one point I considered bell curving all of my ratings and decided it was too much work. I tried to maybe be more generous but I can’t mentally re-calibrate what my scores are (e.g. a 7 vs and 8 for example). I’m also jaded enough that the idea of giving most things a 10/10 is a big leap at this point!

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I’ve been stuck at 4.6 for Bells Expedition for over ten years. I don’t think I’ve had a better beer. But it should be a 4.9 then. For me, the difference between 4.0-4.6 is massive.

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Have two 5.0 and every year there are some 4.9s.

Most Ratebeerians are reluctant to use 4.2+ rates and they do become more stingy over the years.

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I go through phases of being more generous with ratings. I think the standard generally is pretty high these days, that it’s becoming harder for a sole beer to stand out massively enough to become a life changing event.

A beer ‘experience’ depends a lot on the environment and mood of the moment also, as I’m sure we all know. I’ve given very high ratings to beers with low or medium average scores because of this.

I think more people need to give 4.2+ scores, especially the Danes, but that’s my opinion.

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I have become somewhat less stingy with 4+ ratings, partially because of cross-posting on UT, on which I round up. That said, I am sure I am still considered stingy.

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I’m in same boat. I don’t use enough of scale and to be fair need to go back and redo 6k rates to make accurate and I won’t and it’s mentally tough to change a decade in.

I keep think about redoing all my place scores though to better reflect my feelings in digital scores. Maybe

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I have eight beers rated at 4.8.

Most ‘great’ beers that I have these days tend to land in the 4.3-4.5 range.

Yeah I agree with all that. One of my highest rated beers is a low ABV pale hoppy item from Hill Farmstead, which was great on its own terms, but I had it on a hot day next to a lake in New Hampshire, and I drank pretty much the whole 750ml bottle myself.

I gave out some very high scores early in my rating days but I don’t mind that at all. Back then, these WERE the best beers I had ever had and I scored them as such. These days, after 30k+ beers, it is naturally much harder for a beer to be ‘one of the best’ I have tried.

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looks like 265 fives for me? what can i say, i fall in love easily.

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No 5.0’s from me yet, suppose I want to believe there is always something out there that will eventually hit that. Just adding some more MBCC 2021 backlog with some very strong beers scoring 4.5+ (looking at you Moksa/3 Sons)

Apart from that I have a couple of 4.7’s - maybe if I could retry https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/westbrook-double-barrel-maple-coconut-mexican-cake/753774 or https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/westbrook-mexican-cake-imperial-stout-reserva/490593 it would ratchet up another point or 2, but will certainly not see those beers again for sure.

Until then will keep searching for that perfect 5.0 :slight_smile:

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One 5* rating for me.

https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/side-project-3-candles/463630/407967/

Doubt I’ll ever try a beer I enjoyed more. Had a couple of pours before it ran out. Heard it’s only ever been served on tap, but that was a few years ago. And the pastry game has moved on a bit in the last five years or so. Sampled at Beavertown Extravaganza 2017 with a big bunch of friends

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Took me around 20000 ticks to find the first and only 5.0. Probably used around 50 -100 liters of sample size over 10 years.

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My highest so far is a 4.5 for this https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/de-dolle-oerbier/6860/708854/.

A 5.0 seems like the holy grail and as some have mentioned, I like the idea that the perfect beer is out their but I’ve just not found it yet.

I’m surprised that out of my 2.4k rates I have rated only 20 a 4.2+. I either need to loosen up a bit with my scoring on excellent beer or I consume too much crap beer - my average beer rated is 3.22. Not sure if that is good or bad.

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This guy had 19 before he left the site!

Reason I found him is because I had this last night and was rating it when I saw his review.
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/garage-ca-mango-hefeweizen/249805/

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I almost feel like now that I’ve found perfection, or close enough to it, I now can stop rating beer.

Although I have yet to find the other Holy Grail: the 0.5…

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