You can already do that. Go to the top 50 and customize it to your liking. This is what the top 50 looks like with a minimum of 200 ratings:
1 Westvleteren Abt 12 shelftag 4.51 1402 Abt/Quadrupel
2 Närke Kaggen Stormaktsporter shelftag 4.48 230 Imperial Stout
3 Three Floyds Dark Lord Russian Imperial Stout shelftag 4.38 829 Imperial Stout
4 AleSmith Barrel Aged Speedway Stout shelftag 4.35 276 Imperial Stout
5 AleSmith Speedway Stout shelftag 4.34 1048 Imperial Stout
6 Rochefort Trappistes 10 shelftag 4.34 2060 Abt/Quadrupel
7 Surly Darkness shelftag 4.32 250 Imperial Stout
8 Bells Expedition Stout shelftag 4.32 1502 Imperial Stout
9 Lost Abbey The Angels Share shelftag 4.27 334 Barley Wine
10 Kuhnhenn Raspberry Eisbock shelftag 4.26 501 Fruit Beer
11 Westvleteren Extra 8 shelftag 4.26 946 Belgian Strong Ale
12 Three Floyds Dreadnaught Imperial IPA shelftag 4.26 1114 Imperial/Double IPA
13 Lost Abbey Isabelle Proximus shelftag 4.25 215 Sour Ale
14 Russian River Pliny the Younger shelftag 4.25 228 Imperial/Double IPA
15 Lost Abbey The Angels Share (Bourbon Barrel) shelftag 4.24 283 Barley Wine
16 Struise Pannepot shelftag 4.23 770 Belgian Strong Ale
17 Stone Imperial Russian Stout shelftag 4.22 1459 Imperial Stout
18 Founders Kentucky Breakfast Bourbon Aged Stout shelftag 4.19 575 Imperial Stout
19 Goose Island Bourbon County Stout shelftag 4.19 830 Imperial Stout
20 Russian River Pliny the Elder shelftag 4.18 685 Imperial/Double IPA
21 Great Divide Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout shelftag 4.18 1321 Imperial Stout
22 AleSmith Barrel Aged Old Numbskull shelftag 4.17 318 Barley Wine
23 Deschutes The Abyss shelftag 4.17 515 Imperial Stout
24 New Glarus Belgian Red shelftag 4.17 851 Fruit Beer
25 Founders Breakfast Stout shelftag 4.17 905 Imperial Stout
26 Dogfish Head World Wide Stout 2001/2003-Present (18%) shelftag 4.17 1217 Imperial Stout
27 Southampton Imperial Russian Stout shelftag 4.16 216 Imperial Stout
28 St. Bernardus Abt 12 shelftag 4.16 1814 Abt/Quadrupel
29 Barley Johns The Dark Knight (Returns) shelftag 4.15 260 Imperial/Strong Porter
30 Dieu du Ciel Péché Mortel shelftag 4.14 764 Imperial Stout
31 Bells Hopslam shelftag 4.14 922 Imperial/Double IPA
32 AleSmith YuleSmith (Summer) India Pale Ale shelftag 4.13 653 Imperial/Double IPA
33 Mikkeller Beer Geek Breakfast shelftag 4.13 743 Stout
34 Ølfabrikken Porter shelftag 4.13 748 Porter
35 Thirsty Dog Siberian Night Imperial Stout shelftag 4.13 787 Imperial Stout
36 Russian River Supplication shelftag 4.12 446 Sour Ale
37 Hoppin Frog BORIS The Crusher shelftag 4.12 559 Imperial Stout
38 Hair of the Dog Adam shelftag 4.12 954 Traditional Ale
39 Rochefort Trappistes 8 shelftag 4.12 1614 Belgian Strong Ale
40 Struise Black Albert shelftag 4.11 322 Imperial Stout
41 The Duck-Rabbit Baltic Porter shelftag 4.11 453 Baltic Porter
42 Three Floyds Behemoth Barleywine shelftag 4.11 576 Barley Wine
43 Abbaye des Rocs Brune shelftag 4.11 857 Belgian Strong Ale
44 Ayinger Celebrator Doppelbock shelftag 4.11 1910 Doppelbock
45 Struise Pannepot Grand Reserva shelftag 4.1 229 Belgian Strong Ale
46 Port Brewing Older Viscosity shelftag 4.1 250 American Strong Ale
47 Pizza Port Cuvee de Tomme shelftag 4.1 436 Belgian Strong Ale
48 North Coast Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout shelftag 4.1 2048 Imperial Stout
49 Foothills Sexual Chocolate Imperial Stout shelftag 4.09 243 Imperial Stout
50 AleSmith YuleSmith (Winter) Imperial Red Ale shelftag 4.09 621 American Strong Ale
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And i only need 4 to complete the SET :-)
3 of which i have.
ISO Pliney the Younger.
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There was this same type of thread for the two non-bottled versions of Dark Lord. The vanilla bean version was off and on a couple of times before someone spoke up and mentioned it was still selling at the brewpub.
Then there was the whole AleSmith debacle about the special coffee version of the Speedway stout. It finally got removed because only Americans had rated it, thus considered neither commercially available nor a new beer since the only change was coffee which is not allowed for American beers, either.
I see that American beers have more stringent requirements for new entries than the foreign ones. Just look at all of the British rebadges for every little tweak in recipe or serving method.
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Im not trying to get the Two darklord removed. Its frustrating knowing that the chances of ever trying such highly regarded beers is non exisitant, but it still gonna be a beer i want to try once i know of its existance wether its listed now or not.
As for the Alesmith I followed that thread and never did quite understand what the postion on it was, there seemed to be so many claims and counter claims. It seemed to me legitimate but should have been retired as it was a one off never to be seen again release.
As for UK beers the problem there is Definitly the Brewers/distributers. Its next to impossiblt to know when its new or not, so you just have to go with the information supplied. It HATE the rebadge practice, and in fact came across one recently(christmas name) where i went hunting the beer , failing to find it. Only to discover it was one id had with its original name.
If i didnt like it first time im not going to like it with a new name, and if i did like it, i dont want to miss out cause its got a new name.
I think there a difference in the Bottle and Cask market, and the US seems to me more bottle lead and the UK cask lead.
A brewer in the bottle market want you to come back and back to the same bottle. A small percentage of the Cask market aims to get its beer into a pub on a regular basis, based on "look we have a new beer"
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Oh and as for serving method. There no doubt in my mind there a huge difference in Cask and Sterile versions of beers.
Im assuming the same rules apply for cask and sterile in the US. Though im not sure how many brewers produce a Cask version.
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Nope, we keep them as the same listing.
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What beershop would that be? What is the URL to your website?
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How odd.
Why?
I think we have it right. A living beer is completly different from a Sterile beer. Seems insane to lump them together. If they were the same id probably never bother with the Pub. But there something really nice about a UK Cask ale.
There a couple of UK casks that my wife loves but wont touch on Bottle at all.
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Wait Craig I have had both beers in question and I am American. Oh wait it doesn’t count because I live in Germany and haven’t made 50 trades on rate beer. My opinion isn’t respected, LOL! This has been one of the best threads to read in a great long time....Shawn
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It’s a complex situation. But the UK splits are not just by cask and bottle. The splits are by cask and pasteurised. That situation NEVER arises in the USA. In fact it only happens in the UK due to our peculiar brewery history. It doesn’t happen in the UK with most micro breweries either. I’m currently drinking a bottle of Wylam Rocket which is cold filtered so that is not split from the cask version.
Very few people understand how and why we split, so you are not alone. We would love to go further and split along filtered/unfiltered lines, but that is unlikely to happen.
As for the Stuise beer. From the ratings, I doubt if it’s a beer I would like, but I’m glad it has given so much pleasure to those who have drunk it.
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