Statistics on Sampling 500 Beers

18 August 2012

This week I tried my 500th unique beer: Cascade Sang Noir. I maintain a fairly detailed database of the beers I have tried here, and below I share some statistics on trying 500 beers!

Ratings

500 unique beers tried

281 beers rated on an integral scale of 1 to 10

4.6  / 10  Average Rating

1.9 Standard Deviation for Ratings

2 Perfect scores

See distribution above or here.

Geography

29 States Represented

15 Countries Represented

Milestones

159 Breweries Represented

27 Schlafly Beers Sampled, Most Beers from a Single Brewery

7 / 7  Trappist Breweries Sampled (wikipedia)

400th Beer: Cantillon Lou Pepe Gueze

500th Beer: Cascade Sang Noir

Favorites

3 Favorite Breweries:

  1. Cascade Brewing
  2. Dogfish Head
  3. Mikkeller

5 Favorite Beers:

  1. Cascade Sang Noir
  2. Cascade Sang Royal
  3. Firestone Walker Abacus
  4. Founders KBS
  5. Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA