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2024 Statistics

Time to pause 2025 for a bit to look at some statistical beer drinking highlights from my 2024.

564 beers were tasted in total from samplers to large format bottles.

6.29oz less beer was drunk per week – but I made up alcohol ground with more home cocktails in 2024.

High of 203 ounces in a week with a low of 112 ounces.

The average ABV over the year was 6.97%

Best of the week winners were led by Smog City Brewing in Torrance with (4) weekly winners. There were (3) other breweries tied with (2) wins.

I had 56 barrel- aged beers, 82 pilsner or lagers, 11 sour beers and a very paltry 14 beers from Europe. Of course the big style winner was 256 IPAs with 125 of those being West Coast

Below are the breweries with the most tick marks next to their names:

Firestone Walker 52

Stone 20

Smog City 16

El Segundo 15

Santa Monica Brew Works 15

Beachwood 14

Radiant Beer Co. 13

Creature Comforts 10

Highland Park 10

Sierra Nevada 10

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Q1 Statistics

For Q1 (plus a little), past trends hold for the most part with IPA netting 68 of 148 total tasted beers and 32 of that 68 was straight up West Coast style. Below are other findings…

  • Pilsners & Lagers was the second most sipped style with 22, followed by Barrel-Aged with 18.
  • Firestone Walker was the most frequent brewery with 17, followed by Stone at 9 and Creature Comforts and Von Ebert tied at 7.
  • Most beers tasted were brewed in California (30) , not counting strictly Los Angeles (18) with 10 breweries from Oregon then 7 from Foreign breweries
  • The average ABV is a bit on the high side at 7.51% but I do expect that to fall as summer goes on.
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Statistics for 2023 (so far)

Twice yearly, I go back and peer over the list of beers drunk and see what I can parse. So let’s see what happened from January through June of 2023.

  • I have had 39 collaborative beers
  • 135 beers from California + 119 from Los Angeles
  • Both 12 beers from Oregon and 12 from foreign lands
  • 161 beers from the IPA family, 43 Pilsner-Lager and 31 Barrel-Aged
  • Most drunk from California – Firestone Walker, Sierra Nevada and Smog City
  • Most drunk from Los Angeles – Smog City, El Segundo and Lo Angeles Ale Works
  • Consumption in ounces is down a little over 8oz
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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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Q1 2022 Drinking Statistics

Here is a quick rundown of the pertinent facts of what I drank beer-wise in the first three months of 2022.

I am drinking over 5ounces less per week which is probably offset by my increased dabbling in cocktails.

AleSmith has been the most drunk brewery followed by Stone and then five locals – Eagle Rock, El Segundo, Highland Park, Los Angeles Ale Works and Firestone Walker.

Highland Park is leading the Best Beer of the Week race with two wins.

Of the 163 beers drunk, 75 were IPA and of that 32 were West Coast and 21 Hazy. Barrel- Aged beers totaled 15 and the Pilsner/Lager category was 11.

15.5% is the highest ABV beer drunk

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2021 – A Look Back

Before we get too far into 2022, I want to re-visit 2021 again and look at my year in beer.

643 individual servings of beer were had and well over half were IPA. I would say bad me but I will save that for another point in this post. Of those IPAs, 114 were West Coasties and 105 were of the Hazed variety. DIPAs were 54 and TIPAs 19.

Pilsners and Lagers combined for 49 entries with Barrel- Aged right behind at 45. Sours, which I seem to be eschewing more and more ended at 15 and the beers from Foreign lands a pitiful, measly, really bad me 7. Right there is one of the reasons why I persist in this Excel exercise. So that I can see the stark numbers.

Speaking of stark numbers, I drank, on average, 158.7 ounces of beer a week. The lowest mark since I have done this. The ABV average was 7.38% per beer.

On to who I drank the most of, it as as follows:

  • Firestone Walker
  • Smog City
  • Stone Brewing
  • Radiant Beer Co.
  • AleSmith
  • Eagle Rock Brewery
  • El Segundo Brewery
  • Los Angeles Ale Works
  • Highland Park Brewery
  • The Bruery

Yup, a 100% California list and 50% LA local to boot!

Finally, of note is that each week I “crown” a Beer of the Week. This year, Firestone Walker tallied an impressive 5 as did Anaheim newbie Radiant Beer Co. Smog City racked up 3 for the proverbial bronze.

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Best Beers of June 2021 + IPA Standings

Time to unveil MY best beers of the month…

Honorable Mention goes to all of the New Zealand hopped beers that I tried from Firestone Walker’s Propagator. All were quite unique and showcased each different hop well.

Runner Up was High Water Brewing and their Break Apart Cream Ale which was just so different than most of the other beers tasted. That creamsicle orange flavor was great.

The Grand Winner came from Radiant Brewing in Anaheim. Mind Gardens Pilsner was made with Riwaja hops and it was both hoppy without taking anything away from the pilsner aspects of the beer.

The IPA standings remain unchanged for the second straight month.

Third – Crooked Stave Idaho 7 IPA

Second – Indie Brewing Quintette IPA

First – Offshoot Beer Co. DDH Visions

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2020 Beer Drinking Stats

Time to delve into my beer drinking statistics for last year. Frankly, there was not a lot of variance when you are drinking primarily 16oz cans. No tasters, no half pints, no magnums this year. Let’s do the numbers…

Let’s get some basic stats out of the way first. The average ABV over the course of the year was 6.79%. I drank on average just shy of 160 ounces per 5 day week.

Style wise IPA made up 52.85% of the beers. Sour and/or barrel aged a measly 7.6% and the Other category was 39.55%. Next year I might try to add more styles to the mix to see more detailed data.

My top ten most drunk from breweries starts with my favorite Firestone Walker, then to Sierra Nevada and Stone in the next two spots. All three regionals that could be found anywhere one shopped. Local Eagle Rock was fourth leading the LA parade. Followed by Los Angeles Ale Works, Smog City, Angel City, Boomtown and Brewyard. Tied for tenth was Santa Monica Brew Works and The Bruery.

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Drinking Stats – Q1 2020

Well this quarter has had some highs and lows, hasn’t it? But in an effort to continue continuity, let’s dive into the numbers behind the beers drunk these past three months.

This year, I am trying to maintain. Keep below the 163 ounces a week that I was able to accomplish last year. Currently sitting at 157.35 or 9.8 pints a week. Two ounces below last years finish. ABV has settled into the 6.5% range and won’t move unless I really have to hit the barrel-aged stash.

I have a feeling that this lockdown will play the most havoc with how many breweries are on the list compared to last year. It is not normally something that I track, opting instead for top 10 popular beers and breweries instead.

Gold star faves have been the Galactic Ghost IPA from Allegory Brewing, Apical Dominance from Russian, Hayshaker Saison from Gunwhale Ales and Atomic Jukebox from Fort George.

See you next quarter.

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Drinking Stats – Q2 2019

1/2 of the year is past and now is the time to check in on how much I have drunk, what are the favorites and other statistical tidbits…

I am on course to meet my ounce restriction goal. Sitting at an average of 158.97 ounces per week which is 3.03 ounces under the max. Boring ABV is stuck (in perpetuity it seems) in the 6.6% range.

I am also pleased that the IPA intake is at 51.47% of all the beers so far this year. If I can keep that in the 1/2 range, then I will be happy. What is not so good is that the barrel and sour beers are under 10%. At 8% even. That number needs to be double-digits in my mind.

Two of my favorite beers in the last quarter came at the Sour Friends Festival at Cellador Ales. Pyrus Rustique from Beachwood and Pleasant Pils from Highland Park were my two winners and will probably be on my Top 10 for 2019 list. Secret Agenda a Pale Bock from Lagunitas and Moonlight Brewing was excellent as was the blended cocktail beer Old Man Hattan from Firestone Walker. The most surprising was The Man with the Golden Churro from J. Wakefield. I thought this brewery was all hype, turns out this beer was quite good. On the flip side, Pineberry Milkshake IPA from the normally reliable Mumford Brewing was like mainlining sugar.

Now onto the 2nd half of the year!