Greg Koch of Stone Brewing has earned his Good Samaritan badge for the week and posted Beer Advocate Magazine’s ‘Best of’ list online. The magazine posts, annually, in its December issue a list of the top 25 beers. For those who haven’t received the mag yet (or weren’t planning to in the first place), you can check out the scanned copy on the Stone Brewing site.
Stone Brewing claimed five of the top 25 beers which is remarkable considering there are at least 1400 breweries/pubs in the U.S. alone. Across the world, there are thousands. I am not sure there is even a definitive number out there that exists but I am guessing that BeerMe’s figure of 10,521 is probably the closest that you will find.
That said,
Beer Advocate
already has a top list on its website…which is different from the magazine version. Both are marked ‘Best Beers on Planet Earth’ (of all-time) but it isn’t made clear as to what is different about them which just confuses and dilutes the importance of both lists.
It’s nice to see FL represented in the Pubs list with the Cock & Bull. The owner there is awesome and it’s a great beer bar.
People really need to stop paying Beer Advocate any mind. The Alstroms are foul people who do a disservice to craft beer. Moreover, their site is, with few exceptions, populated by mindless drunk sociopaths.
Boycott BA on line and on paper
The major beer “rating” websites have been so watered down with mindless sheep and “rare beer” tickers with no experience or knowledge that lists like this mean close to nothing.
Let’s face it, the height of intellect on BeerAdvocate are threads like “what’s your weekend beer haul?” and “in search of (insert newest hyped beer)”.
Thanks for the press, we apperciate it. Its also great to know that the peanut gallery is still chiming in … that simply validates the strength of the community when petty comments needed to be made from an anonymous online persona. Gives me a good laugh over my morning coffee as well. Thanks and happy holidays.
Hey Jimmy … what do you think beernews.org is about. “news about the (insert newest hyped beer)”.
Grow up a realize that we are lucky to have such a great beer culture, BTW you troll baiting is weak.
So in other words, beer “advocate” is no better than beernews.org. Good to know.
There is a very good beer culture in this country. Too bad your site does it a great disservice, from encouraging inane posts by mouth-breathers of the first order, to quelling dissent and criticism, to preventing discussions from being archived to point out your hypocrisy, to ham-handed requests for “donations” so you can fly your wife first-class to beer festivals. There’s a reason Boston is a punchline.
My main problem with Beer Advocate is the way in which the no-blog-link policy is handled. Obviously there should be a policy to prevent repeated self-linkage but if the links are coming from dozens of users, all they are trying to do is advocate beer! Why stifle that?
Otherwise, Beer Advocate’s impact on craft beer is felt and a lot of breweries and the culture has benefited.
I should also point out that part of the reason for my comment in this article was because I thought there had been no top 25 buzzed list released. But there was, it just wasn’t made available in the scan.
What’s with the bickering? BA isn’t “populated by mindless drunk sociopaths,” the internet is. BA is a rich resource for beer news and information, not unlike this site. Of course there will be idiots on the site, because there are idiots in the world. The only way to prevent that would be for the Alstrom brothers to restrict access to BA and to censor the boards. Yet when they do become active in the forums, that too is lobbed as a critique of their site. I think this pettiness is unfortunate and unappealing to most craft beer lovers.
Both websites have their differences and I believe their existence is complimentary, not competitive.
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