re: Who here has been to World of Beer?

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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.

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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...".