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2023 Statistics

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.

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Statistics and damn lies

So the first five weeks of tracking my beer intake and spending are in the books and one immediate take-away is that is has affected my drinking a bit. I set a weekly max. In this case, 240 ounces over 5 days. Sort of like a salary cap in the NBA. I could go over it without consequence but I wanted some sort of demarcation point.

In the first two weeks, I was butting up against that max number which led me to pull back the remaining three to the point where I was trying to comfortably land below that threshold.

Here are my numbers:
The low week was 176 ounces and the high week was 236.
Averaging out to 208.6 ounces per 5 day period.
Or drilling down to 40.84 ounces per day.
The biggest day was about 60 when I visited the Azusa location for next year’s opening Lagunitas Brewery. The combination of free plus riding Metro plus a long period of time led to that total.
Saturday and Sunday (obviously) were the big drinking days accounting for 49% of what was drunk each week.
Saturday was the biggest day on average with 56.8 ounces per day.

If I needed to cut down to a lower figure, Saturday would be where I started. Losing one regular sized beer from that day would be a start but getting that average below 50 would probably be better.

After the next five weeks, I will update the averages and let you know what transpired.