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…
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 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!
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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)
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
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.