Beer Ratings

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Well, it took us a bit longer than the month of April to finish our ratings of all the brews we tried, but the results are in! We discovered three things through trying 30 different beers:

1. Beer is beer. While there are subtle differences in types, flavors, brews, & breweries' varieties, to our unsophisticated palates each beer wasn't earth-shatteringly unique. They were all beers at the core and honestly, we got pretty tired of the taste of beer by the end.

2. We hate IPA's. I think they taste like toxic chemicals. And with every IPA we tried, my loathing for them grew stronger and stronger. Just personal preference.

3. The beers we discovered we do really like are stouts and lighter fruity beers. Our absolute favorites were Fuel Cafe, a coffee-flavored stout, and Shiner Ruby Redbird, a seasonal summer lager with grapefruit and ginger flavors.

Without further ado, here are the beers we tried and their composite rating (on a 7 point scale) by the eight different parties who tasted with us :

• Shiner Ruby Redbird: 4.93
• Fuel Cafe (Lakefront Brewery): 4.81
• Fort Collins Chocolate Stout: 4.67
• Moo Joo's Oatmeal Milk Stout: 4.64
• Uncommon Stout: 4.30
• O' Fallon Wheach: 4.25
• Dos Equis Amber: 4.2
• Back Pocket Wooden Nickel Peated Bock: 4.17
• Belhaven Scottish Ale: 4.15
• Major Tom's Pomegranate Wheat (Fort Collins Brewery): 4.07
• Bells Golden Rye: 4.04
• Sierra Nevada Kellerweis Hefeweizen: 4.00
• Bell's Oberon Ale: 3.96
• Dockside Pilsner: 3.95
• Founders All Day IPA: 3.89
• Breckenridge Vanilla Porter: 3.88
• Baraboo Red Granite Lager: 3.81
• Spaten Dunkel: 3.71
• Drifter Pale Ale: 3.68
• Newcastle Brown Ale: 3.60
• Blue Star Wheat: 3.55
• Lost Coast Tangerine: 3.39
• Stone Levitation Ale: 3.13
• Tommyknocker Vienna Style Amber Lager: 3.04
• Bohemia: 3.04
• Bells Kalamazoo Stout: 2.25
• Twisted Pine Hoppy Boy: 2.18
• Pilsner Urquell: 2.17
• Wild Blue: 1.13