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 Kvass 421 Roggenbier 925 Faro 1313 Braggot 1342 American Dark Wheat Ale 2417 Bière de Champagne / Bière Brut 2665 Low Alcohol Beer 2811...

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...

Most Used Words in Beer Names

Source: 91,238 Beers Entered into BeerAdvocate as of 1/10/2014 For all words with at least 25 mentions Word Word Count ale 12734 ipa 5818 stout 5364 porter 3305 pale 3267 red 2608 lager 2446 imperial 2125 black 2040 brown 2024 barrel 1980 wheat 1827 saison 1767 aged...

American IPAs in Four Charts

American IPAs are by far one of the most popular styles of beer with over 5,500 entries on BeerAdvocate. Below are four charts breaking down the beers by BeerAdvocate’s average beer rating (the numerical review average, based on the sum of all user ratings...