Time to take a peek at my beer drinking statistics as we are now in the last quarter of the beer drinking year.
I have been doing a pretty good job of keeping it local. 180 out of 431 were from the greater Los Angeles area with 353 total from California. My foreign beer game jumped too to 20 with my home state of Oregon notching 44.
Most of the beers were IPA with 212, 108 being straight up West Coast style and a dip in hazies to 36. Maybe I am just not as into them as in the past. I drank slightly more Pils (37) than lagers (31) maybe to our plethora of hoppy pils here in L.A. and there has been a respectable amount of barrel-aged beers as well, more than hazies at 38 tasted.
The average ABV is not super high at 7.10% but considering that my highest ABV week was 10.22%, I feel that there must be a lot in the 7% to 8% range,
Brewery wise, Firestone Walker is the big leader at 50 and even if I don’t visit the Propagator again this year, will probably win the year still. Stone ranks second with 18 beers and Santa Monica Brew Works at 15. There are a few at lucky 13: Beachwood, El Segundo and Smog City.
Expect a jump in non California beers since I will be in Colorado for enough days to make a dent in the total 2024 numbers.