Hitting 4000 beers last week seems like a good time to update the site statistics. The last update was 2/18/2020, so everything since basically covers the Covid-adjusted world. Special shout out to Tree House, as I managed to have 102 (!) new beers from them in less than 2 years, making them #1 in beer volume on the site. The stats (values from last time in parentheses):
Breweries: 721 (621)
Beers: 4000 (3029)
Breweries with only 1 beer: 291 (258)
Breweries with 5+ beers: 206 (166)
Cascade highest average of those at 6 for 8 beers
Breweries with 10+ beers: 102 (81)
Toppling Goliath highest average of those at 5.56 for 25 beers
Breweries with 25+ beers: 22 (13)
2nd to Toppling Goliath is Tired Hands at 5.39 for 36 beers
Breweries with 50+ beers: 6 (5)
Tree House 5.36 for 180
Night Shift 4.5 for 142
Trillium 5.37 for 133
Harpoon 4.32 for 88
Sam Adams 4.43 for 72
Finback 5.07 for 60
Most inconsistent breweries (biggest Standard Deviation of Ratings) with 5+ beers:
Goose Island (4.18 avg rating), Crooked Stave (4.29), Viewpoint (4), Bear Republic (4.5), Shipyard (3.67)
Most consistent breweries with 5+ beers:
Cascade (6), Cheeky Monkey (4), Gneiss (4), West Sixth (5.17), Southern Pacific (3.8)
Worst Beer (still unlikely to ever change):
Newport Storm Hurricane Amber Ale
Breweries with at least 1 beer 6 or higher rating: 274 (222)
Breweries with 5+ beers with 6 or higher rating: 48 (28)
Breweries with 10+ beers with 6 or higher rating: 16 (10)
Breweries with more than 1 7 beer: 8 (6 last year) - Southern Tier still has 3, and Trillium is also up to 3 now. Tree House has 13, up 4 from last year, to extend their dominance in the category
Beers rated 7 Shyoh's: 59 (46)
Beers rated 6 Shyoh's: 864 (569)
Beers rated 5 Shyoh's: 1392 (1044)
Beers rated 4 Shyoh's: 1188 (965)
Beers rated 3 Shyoh's: 395 (327)
Beers rated 2 Shyoh's: 89 (68)
Beers rated 1 Shyoh : 13 (10)
Mostly good, plenty of not so good beers since the last update. Cheers!