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re: Who here has been to World of Beer?
Posted on 10/16/14 at 12:50 pm to Jax-Tiger
Posted on 10/16/14 at 12:50 pm to Jax-Tiger
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I would disagree with what a lot of people are saying about the ratings sites. I would start with beers that get good reviews when trying a new style. The ratings aren't always accurate, but if a beer has 1000 reveiews and rates a 92, then it is probably a good beer for that style.
This is true. Definitely use the sites. Absolutely. I guess I just meant.. if you look something up, and you see 76%, you think "well 76% is still pretty high". But on those sites, it's rare to find anything lower than 70%.. at least with most anything I've ever looked up personally. So you're dealing with a window of 70%-100% rather than 0%-100% a lot of times.
Abita Amber has a 79%; Jockamo has 76% (out of 1450 votes). But poor OP would likely hate IPAs if he tried Jockamo as a representation of the style.
I use the rating sites when in the store, but I rarely go ahead with anything below the 80s. That's just me personally.
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Posted on 10/16/14 at 12:51 pm to LouisianaLady
Abita amber is too low
Posted on 10/16/14 at 1:38 pm to LouisianaLady
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I use the rating sites when in the store, but I rarely go ahead with anything below the 80s. That's just me personally.
Yes. We are on the same page, here. If I was trying a style for the first time, I would get something in the 90's, if I could...
I've had plenty of beers that are rated in the 90's that I thought, "WTF?"... So the ratings are definitely not the final determiner of whether you will like a beer, or not, because, as some people have said, the ratings tend to be skewed to the high side.
I also think that some beers get lowballed a bit because of the brewer. I think Sam Adams could come out with the greatest beer in the world, and the best it would get from some people is, "This doesn't suck as much as I thought it would...".
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