Being forgetful and also a blogger means that I like to get things down on paper or up on the internet. So I track beers drunk throughout the year.
Then, I like to post about it to put a number to my beer selections. I tasted 622 beers in 2022. 155.55 ounces per week which is a drop of a little over 3% from 2021. The average ABV was 7.23%.
50.8% of the beers were IPAs with that being 44.9% West Coast style and 25% Hazy. The biggest gainer in this category was Cold IPAs which outnumbered triples and imperials and reds amongst the many IPA sub-styles.
The next biggest style was Pilsner/Lager at 10.8% followed by Barrel-Aged at 10.8%. Sours are trending downward so I may have to see if something else should be broken out in its place.
Surprisingly Stone was the most often quaffed beer at 24 times and 385 ounces followed by Firestone Walker at 22 and 249. Rounding out the top five were Smog City at 21 and 339, Sierra Nevada at 20 and 276 and Eagle Rock Brewery at 19 and 301.
I also noticed a few breweries that I had only one or two beers from which fascinated me. Among them were Allagash, Kern River, Lagunitas, Brouwerij West and Drakes.