Understanding Hop Pellet Blends & Oil Testing
When updating the hop oils calculator for 2014, I learned a lot about hops while I pestered staff at YCH HOPS for data and quizzed them on how they test their hops and put together their blends. Thankfully, they were super cool and answered all my questions and...
2015 National Homebrew Competition By the Numbers
Earlier this year I attempted to estimate the statistical odds of advancing an entry to the 2015 NHC final round, but now that the final round is complete and the numbers are released, below are the actual odds of advancement by judging location. The hardest style to...
Farnesene Level Distributions
This chart shows farnesene levels distributed among all of the hops in 5 seperate tiers, with the highest levels on the left and lowest levels on the right. At first glance, this could be a list of my favorite hops in the tier to the right.
2015 BJCP Style Guidelines
Here is a quick sortable reference guide to the new 2015 BJCP Style Guidelines.
Hop Oils and Acid Rankings
Ranking of 1 = The Highest Content of Oil/Acid Across All Hops in Database Same rankings represent identical acid/oil figures Each column is sortable.
Homebrew How To List
Have a great Homebrew How to? Submit it here (Title, URL, Author, Category) or leave it in the comments and I'll add it to the list! For more great resources, check out the top homebrew websites and blogs page. Updated: 1.8.2016
Chart of the Best Hoppy Beers
Hoppy beers represent 77% of the top 5 beer styles on Beeradvocate (by number of reviews), which ones are the best? To find out I charted every single beer for Imperial/Double IPAs, American IPAs, and American Pale Ales by review average and total number of reviews....
What Beer Styles Get the Most Reviews?
Source: Beeradvocate as of January 2015 Source: Beeradvocate as of January 2015 Complete Data: Beer Category Reviews Happoshu 376...
Average ABV Across All Beer Styles
Data for every beer listed in each Beeradvocate style category as of January 2015 Total number of beers in data set: 91,238 Beer Category Average ABV Low Alcohol Beer 0.96 Kvass 1.07 Light Lager 4.04 English Dark Mild Ale 4.07 Berliner Weissbier 4.15 English Bitter...
Relationship of ABV to Beer Scores
Probably not a shocker, but interesting to see the data, it appears the average ABV across a given beer category does increase the average beer score for that particular category. A few noticeable outliers are goses and berliner weisses which tend to score high...
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