{"id":2532,"date":"2014-12-17T22:11:32","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T02:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/beer\/?p=2532"},"modified":"2014-12-17T22:11:32","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T02:11:32","slug":"ratebeers-my-year-in-beer-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2014\/12\/17\/ratebeers-my-year-in-beer-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 RateBeer&#8217;s &#8216;My Year in Beer 2014&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, possibly at the surprise of some of my loyal readers, I don\u2019t plan on doing a 2014 Year in Beer that I usually do. It takes a lot of time and usually sets me up for a lot of public ridicule. The thousands of dollars I spend a year on really dumb fermented sugar water is probably to blame. Anyway, RateBeer put together this awesome page called My Year in Beer and I took a few screen shots to share. This is only data from 2014 so anything I rated this year would go here. It was especially interesting to see my top Imperial Stouts &amp; Sour ales.<\/p>\n<p><img  loading=\"lazy\"  decoding=\"async\"  style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  alt=\"Screen Shot 2014 12 17 at 7 38 49 PM\"  width=\"600\"  height=\"454\"  border=\"0\"  class=\" pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-pk-src=\"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/beer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-17-at-7.38.49-PM.png\" ><\/p>\n<p><img  loading=\"lazy\"  decoding=\"async\"  style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  alt=\"Screen Shot 2014 12 17 at 7 38 55 PM\"  width=\"600\"  height=\"546\"  border=\"0\"  class=\" pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-pk-src=\"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/beer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-17-at-7.38.55-PM.png\" ><\/p>\n<p><img  loading=\"lazy\"  decoding=\"async\"  style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  alt=\"Screen Shot 2014 12 17 at 7 39 06 PM\"  width=\"600\"  height=\"403\"  border=\"0\"  class=\" pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-pk-src=\"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/beer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-17-at-7.39.06-PM.png\" ><\/p>\n<p><img  loading=\"lazy\"  decoding=\"async\"  style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  alt=\"Screen Shot 2014 12 17 at 7 39 16 PM\"  width=\"600\"  height=\"253\"  border=\"0\"  class=\" pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-pk-src=\"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/beer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-17-at-7.39.16-PM.png\" ><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img  loading=\"lazy\"  decoding=\"async\"  style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  alt=\"Screen Shot 2014 12 17 at 7 39 25 PM\"  width=\"600\"  height=\"533\"  border=\"0\"  class=\" pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-pk-src=\"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/beer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-17-at-7.39.25-PM.png\" ><\/p>\n<p><img  loading=\"lazy\"  decoding=\"async\"  style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  alt=\"Screen Shot 2014 12 17 at 7 39 42 PM\"  width=\"600\"  height=\"341\"  border=\"0\"  class=\" pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-pk-src=\"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/beer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-17-at-7.39.42-PM.png\" ><\/p>\n<p>Top rated Sour Ales<\/p>\n<p><img  loading=\"lazy\"  decoding=\"async\"  style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  alt=\"Screen Shot 2014 12 17 at 7 40 18 PM\"  width=\"600\"  height=\"504\"  border=\"0\"  class=\" pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-pk-src=\"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/beer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-17-at-7.40.18-PM.png\" ><\/p>\n<p>Top Rated Imperial Stout<\/p>\n<p><img  loading=\"lazy\"  decoding=\"async\"  style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  alt=\"Screen Shot 2014 12 17 at 7 40 29 PM\"  width=\"600\"  height=\"495\"  border=\"0\"  class=\" pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-pk-src=\"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/beer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-17-at-7.40.29-PM.png\" ><\/p>\n<p>Top Rated Lambic &#8211; Gueuze<\/p>\n<p><img  loading=\"lazy\"  decoding=\"async\"  style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  alt=\"Screen Shot 2014 12 17 at 7 41 20 PM\"  width=\"600\"  height=\"503\"  border=\"0\"  class=\" pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-pk-src=\"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/beer\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-12-17-at-7.41.20-PM.png\" ><\/p>\n<p>Overall, great year in beer. I got to tick off some stuff that was rare to me and find a lot of great awesome beers. Looking forward to another year of rating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First of all, possibly at the surprise of some of my loyal readers, I don\u2019t plan on doing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-12-07T17:38:16Z","apple_news_api_id":"2a66dddf-c9f5-42fa-9e4f-b27117f98251","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-12-07T17:38:20Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AKmbd38n1QvqeT7JxF_mCUQ","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-my-thoughts","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-EQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2243,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2014\/05\/27\/beer-tastings-hill-farmstead-tasting-at-my-place\/","url_meta":{"origin":2532,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 Beer Tastings: Hill Farmstead Tasting at my place","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"May 27, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I had some friends come over who home-brew and we usually meet monthly to taste new home-brew and swap tips and usually I try to share something that\u2019s a commercial beer. 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