

This scrunches up the vast majority of breweries into the 3s. While a spread of 5 points is possible, few breweries have an average brewery rating below a 3 or above a 4. While every individual rater has their own way of doing it, over time, over thousands of ratings and thousands of raters, the average scores begin to tell a story about a brewery. Using a weighted average formula that combines its individual beers’ scores, Untappd determines an average rating for each brewery. Beers scoring below 3.0 are typically stale, mis-labeled, infected, or are macro-brews such as Bud Light. Few people rate legitimate craft beers below 3.0. A more pedestrian craft beer gets a 3.0 or 3.25 rating.

Beers that are quite good, but not exceptional tend to get rated 3.75 or 3.5. As it happens, most people give out very few 5.0 ratings and tend to rate beers that they think are excellent somewhere in the 4s, with only the very best of the excellent getting 5s. Most would agree that the perfect beer deserves a 5.

Raters have determine their own system that works for them. Untappd does not tell its raters how to use the 5-point scale. Untappd lets you rate a beer on a 1 to 5 point scale in increments of 0.25. We’ll end up with a better picture of just how WV breweries stack up. This article will help pull out the significance and make some sense out of these Untappd 2019 ratings. You can check out the complete list on Untappd.We take a look at how the top 15 WV breweries did on Untappd through 2019.¹ Untappd may have its critics and its weaknesses, but it is the best crowd-sourced gauge we have for judging how a brewery and its beers are thought of in the market. The top three were London, Chicago, and New York City. Untappd also released the top 10 cities of 2020 based on the total number of check-ins globally, where Europe dominated the list. Untappd also named the top 10 beer styles of 2020 based on the total number of check-ins by beer lovers, and people love IPAs, which had five of the top 10 and the top three styles. Untappd named Bell’s Brewery as #9, but only a few months ago, the American Homebrewers Association named the Michigan brewery as the best American brewery in 2020 and the top beer this year with Bell’s Two Hearted Ale. The most popular was BrewDog, a prolific brewery in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, that enjoyed nearly one million check-ins in 2020. Untappd also announced their top 10 breweries of 2020, including several highly acclaimed beermakers. Hazy Little Thing - Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.
