Hop Usages in Commercial Beers Correlated to Beer Scores

Is there a connection between a beers hop build and how the beer is ultimately rated by the masses? Is there a consensus favorite hop being used? Is there a consensus least favorite hop being used? To attempt to find out I used the hop recipe data collected by Michael...

Beer Still On Top But Trending Down Past 22 Years Among Drinkers

  * Less than 0.5% Source: Gallup – Based on those who drink alcohol. Polynomial trendline version of the chart (fluctuations in the data) Just for fun, here is the Google Trend data for internet searches for each (look at wine surge every December).  ...

Homebrew Interest Around the World

The numbers on the graph reflect how many searches have been done for a particular term, relative to the total number of searches done on Google over time. They don’t represent absolute search volume numbers, because the data is normalized and presented on a...

Beer Analytics: Review of Heady Topper Descriptors

Heady Topper, brewed by The Alchemist in Waterbury, VT is ranked #1 on BeerAdvocate and BeerGraphs and has an overall score of 100 on RateBeer. Clearly, this beer doesn’t suck. To take advantage of the enormous amount of data collected by the top review beer...

Top 10 States to Open a Brewery

After posting a Map of Per Capita Gallons of Beer Consumed Per Adult By State, it got me thinking, what states have the biggest need for more craft breweries? To figure this out, I took the total barrels of beer consumed per year in each state divided by the number of...