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Stats – Part 2 – The BSP Spreadsheet

2023 Statistics from my Beer Spreadsheet, yes, I am geeky like that.

This is all my beer drinking data.  I haven’t posted as frequently about it as I have in the past because I post monthly about the best beers of each month.

But I do like to go through and cover some findings that jumped out to me….

  • Average ounces per week is down to 143.84 a drop of over 11 ounces
  • Average ABV was 7.21%
  • Brewery with most Best of the Week Wins was Firestone Walker with 3, there were 5 breweries with 2 wins
  • Top 5 Breweries by Beers tasted are Firestone Walker with 43, Sierra Nevada with 32, El Segundo with 26 and Smog City with 24
  • I visited 16 new (to me) breweries with 5 being in the Los Angeles area
  • I tasted 17 new (to me) brewery beer with 3 being in L.A.
  • Tasted 620 beers overall
  • Only 3 in the popular 19.2oz format, one of which – Juice Force IPA from New Belgium was certainly in my bottom 5 beers
  • IPAs were 296, Barrel-Aged 45, Pilsner/Lager 78 and Sour 14 (at least IPAs were under half)
  • 520 of the beers were California brewed, 44 from my home state of Oregon, 38 from the other 48 states and 18 Foreign brewed.
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4,656


Here are the latest stats from the Brewer’s Association : “As of June 30, a record high of 4,656 breweries were operating in the U.S, an increase of 917 breweries over the same time period of the previous year. Additionally, there were approximately 2,200 breweries in planning.”

917 breweries in a year! That is a big number for a maturing marketplace. If my scratchpad math is right, that is right around 20% more.

The other positive number is that there are still way more openings than closings. Even with a decrease in growth to 8%, there hasn’t been any major bloodletting.

Next, onto the “in planning” number. I would like to know specifically the criteria for this one. Are there tiers to it? Long-term in planners who have been on the list for years or are these all new since the last number? I would like to see a breakout of this category because closing numbers are one negative indicator but the first one will be the drying up of the pipeline. But if the pipeline numbers are wonky, well then we may not know till later that the tide has turned.

Anyhoo, check out the video. If nothing else, with Bart Watson on board, we are getting a steady stream of data to parse.