The significance of the Average Rating for a brewery is obvious, but breaking out the total count of ratings may also be very meaningful. We looked at each brewery’s total number of Untapped ratings in addition to the average rating received. Our report is based on Untappd numbers as of December 4th. West Virginia brewery ratingsįor our analysis of WV brewery ratings, we first limit the universe to breweries that were licensed for the entire year of 2019. A shade of difference in the decimal points becomes quite significant in comparing what the breweries’ customers are saying about them. This scrunches up the vast majority of breweries into the 3s. While a spread of 5 points is possible, few breweries have an average brewery rating below a 3 or above a 4. While every individual rater has their own way of doing it, over time, over thousands of ratings and thousands of raters, the average scores begin to tell a story about a brewery. Using a weighted average formula that combines its individual beers’ scores, Untappd determines an average rating for each brewery. Beers scoring below 3.0 are typically stale, mis-labeled, infected, or are macro-brews such as Bud Light.

Few people rate legitimate craft beers below 3.0. A more pedestrian craft beer gets a 3.0 or 3.25 rating. Beers that are quite good, but not exceptional tend to get rated 3.75 or 3.5.

As it happens, most people give out very few 5.0 ratings and tend to rate beers that they think are excellent somewhere in the 4s, with only the very best of the excellent getting 5s. Most would agree that the perfect beer deserves a 5. Raters have determine their own system that works for them.

Untappd does not tell its raters how to use the 5-point scale. Untappd lets you rate a beer on a 1 to 5 point scale in increments of 0.25. We’ll end up with a better picture of just how WV breweries stack up. This article will help pull out the significance and make some sense out of these Untappd 2019 ratings. We take a look at how the top 15 WV breweries did on Untappd through 2019.¹ Untappd may have its critics and its weaknesses, but it is the best crowd-sourced gauge we have for judging how a brewery and its beers are thought of in the market.

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