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Beer Stats – 2018 midpoint

Well, past the half-year marker actually but still a good point to evaluate what has been drunk this year. To recap, each year I am reducing the amount of beer for both health reasons and to push me to more fully enjoy the beer I do drink.

Let’s do the numbers….
The goal of 175 ounces per week is being met and then some. As of week 29, I am averaging 169.93 ounces per week or 10.62 pints. Since I take two drinking days off a week, it basically boils down to 2 pints a night (or full day for Saturday and Sunday). Right now the average ABV is 6.58% which is 0.01 from the average for 2017. This is the least volatile stat for me even though I am not an ABV watcher in the least.

46.4% of the beers drunk in 2018 fall outside of the IPA, Sour and Barrel-Aged category. So far, Eagle Rock, Sierra Nevada, Smog City and Angel City are in the lead for brewery ticking with favorite beers coming from Smog City – Awkward Teenager and El Segundo’s Hat’s Off IPA plus anything from Finback. I have had beers from 154 different breweries which puts me in the running to have beers from different brewers each day of the year.

One more update to come for Q3 before the full 2018 recap.

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Drinking Stats – 2018 Q1

The drinking stats are back! I set a fairly ambitious goal for 2018. Bring my average ounces drunk, per week down to 175. In current terms that is a shade under 11 – 16oz cans of hazy IPA.

So far, I am doing well with the average ounces per week at 171.92. The high week in the first quarter was 200 and the low was 162.40. Most of the weeks have come in an ounce or two under that 175 target.

My other goal was to get the split between the Big 3 (IPA, Sour and Barrel-Aged) down to 50% compared to, literally, all other styles. Right now, I am off by nearly 4% which means that I need to be buying more lagers and saisons for starters.

Some other stats:
Average ABV – 6.62% with a high week of 7.23% avg. and low of 5.94%.
Average dollar spend is $41.57 with a high week of $64.02 and low of $22.99.

And my favorite beers so far are as follows:
Angel City Public House Saison
Burial Beer Co. Ceremonial Session IPA
Homage One Evening Guava Sour
Finback Cosmic Vibration Coconut IPA

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Drinking Stats for 2016

Since April, I have been keeping a basic set of beer drinking statistics. Not 100% coverage of all that I drank during the year, but a pretty good deep dive into what I have been pouring into my pint, tulip and other glassware.

Maybe it was seeing the numbers that started a self-fulfilling prophecy but pretty quickly the numbers in the (3) columns (ounces drunk, ABV and cost) collected to an average that did not deviate much.

Within three weeks, the weekly amount drunk settled into a range between 204-208. The high week was 288 and the low 163. The average ABV was even more constricted into an under 1/2 percentage range from 6.51% to 6.99%. The high ABV week was 8.96% with the low clocking in at 5.19%. Dollars spent per week was where the widest gulf was found going from $49.90 to $62.86 from Week 5 to Week 29. The low week was $31.75 and the high was $136.00.

Overall the average amount consumed was 204.31 at an average ABV of 6.74% spending $60.95 a week to do so.

Also, in utilizing my Excel skills, I was able to rank the breweries that I most drank from. Yes, it includes samplers but this list is meant to analyze more who I reached for than just quantity.

Eagle Rock 25 They are my closest brewery. No shock here.
Stone 24 Usually bought at Trader Joe’s
Firestone Walker 24 A blog favorite plus, Luponic Distortion
Mumford 22 Obviously my DTLA pick
Sierra Nevada 18 Beer Camp and Oktoberfest
Highland Park 17 I would have thought this would be higher
El Segundo 15 Day 1 releases, ’nuff said
Lagunitas 13 Tour of Azusa plant basically
Brewyard 10 My Glendale brewery. Will be more next year
The Bruery 10 Kind of surprise, cost should have impacted

I will keep you updated on how 2017 shakes out. Already pumping data into the new spreadsheet.