Like the above grouping, I’ll check to see where I can find these beers. Beers like River Horse’s Oatmeal Milk Stout in winter, Victory Brewing’s Kirsch Gose in summer, or Great Lakes’s Edmund Fitzgerald Porter and Two Roads’ Honeyspot Road IPA year round. Often, one six pack may be of something new, but usually, the other six pack is for one of my favorites that is always good to have available and pairs with just about anything. For example, I usually get about two six packs for myself when I visit my local bottle shops. These are the beers I’ll consider “go-to” beers in constant rotation. Most cases, these are beers that are limited release but I always try to get them when they are released. The Best of the Best for me, beers like Founders KBS and Backwoods Bastard, Carton Brewing’s Regular Coffee and Weihenstephaner’s Hefeweissbier. So, how do these “bottle cap” ratings translate for me? The rating scale for goodreads is a scale of 1 through 5 whole stars. Another example, though not for beers, is goodreads, an online book sharing/rating community where I’ve been a member for quite a few years.
Understandable since BA is THE online institution of beer communities. The ratings scale at Beer Advocate is even more granular than untappd. Untappd uses “bottle caps” rather than stars, allowing users to rate from one to five bottle caps in increments of quarter bottle caps. Most sites / apps like Untappd feature a ratings scale of some sort.
There are also some promotions for local beer fests and similar beer-related things. There are various “rewards” like a badge for checking into distinct beers of a specific style every 5 distinct beers gets you a level in the badge. Untappd, for the uninitiated is a social media platform for sharing thoughts and ratings on beer with their friends, both in “real life” and on the intarwebz and social media. I’ve recently started rating beers on Beer Advocate, but this post is mostly about my ratings on Untappd. This is probably something I should have posted earlier in the life of this blog, but I thought giving a brief overview of how I rate the beers from a number standpoint and how that translates into what the beer actually fits into my refrigerator rotation.
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