2015 National Homebrew Competition By the Numbers

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...

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Farnesene Level Distributions

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.  

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Homebrew How To List

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  

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Chart of the Best Hoppy Beers

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....

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Average ABV Across All Beer Styles

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...

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Relationship of ABV to Beer Scores

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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