{"id":8637,"date":"2022-01-06T15:01:15","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T20:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=8637"},"modified":"2022-01-06T15:42:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T20:42:59","slug":"year-in-review-and-2022-plans-in-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2022\/01\/06\/year-in-review-and-2022-plans-in-beer\/","title":{"rendered":"Year in Review and 2022 Plans in Beer&#8230;and my last"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1053,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/untappd.com\\\/yearinbeer\\\/share\\\/3f55b8e8eb334efa1ee69f31a4d8689b&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:1054,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/adamjackson\\\/51804040596&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Before we begin, here are previous years:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2013\/01\/01\/1-year-in-beer-ticks-travel-trades-and-homebrew\/\">Year in Review and 2012 Plans in Beer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2013\/12\/31\/2-years-in-beer-evolution-of-the-hobby\/\">Year in Review and 2013 Plans in Beer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/01\/02\/year-in-review-and-2015-plans-in-beer\/\">Year in Review and 2015 Plans in Beer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/01\/03\/year-in-review-and-2016-plans-in-beer\/\">Year in Review and 2016 Plans in Beer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/01\/23\/year-in-review-and-2017-plans-in-beer\/\">Year in Review and 2017 Plans in Beer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2018\/01\/16\/year-in-review-and-2018-plans-in-beer\/\">Year in Review and 2018 Plans in Beer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2019\/12\/20\/year-in-review-and-2020-plans-in-beer\/\">Year in Review and 2020 Plans in Beer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2021\/01\/02\/\u2605-year-in-review-and-2021-plans-in-beer\/\">Year in Review and 2021 Plans in Beer<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Every year, I say to myself that this will probably be the last time I do one of these but I continue to keep drinking beer so there\u2019s always data to digest. This blog post is now made possible annually by Untappd.com. Their CSV export has been a godsend for compiling this data. They finally added a year-in-review page you can see and share. Mine is here &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/untappd.com\/yearinbeer\/share\/3f55b8e8eb334efa1ee69f31a4d8689b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/untappd.com\/yearinbeer\/share\/3f55b8e8eb334efa1ee69f31a4d8689b<\/a>\u00a0Like most links, that one will probably die in a year or two.<\/p>\n<p>The elephant in the room for me is the lack of any \u201cBeer Haul\u201d posts in 2021. For 2020, I just put everything into a single post. This year, I didn\u2019t publish any photos of my \u2018hauls\u2019 nor did I post any photos from tastings. It was that sort of year where work and hobbies fought for my spare time and some hobbies had to go. I\u2019m starting to drop some of the things like my podcast because of lack of free time. It\u2019s tough doing it all while having 2 full time jobs. In 2021, I was not a member of any beer clubs. We dropped Bruery and Hill Farmstead dropped us. Schramm\u2019s was gone from my list as was Eden Ice Ciders. I still drink all of those but I have so much that I\u2019m not crying about saving some money. Truly, we still have a thousand bottles or more in the cellar that are continuing to age. When I buy fresh beer, it\u2019s either because Hill Farmstead is releasing a beer I need to rate or I just buy Heady Topper for a fresh IPA.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I think it\u2019s safe to say this will be the final \u2018year in beer\u2019 to this blog. It\u2019s healthy to consume less alcohol and it\u2019s financially a good idea to forget about the high end stuff. I don\u2019t think 2021\u2019s November trip to Chicago for Goose Island\u2019s Black Friday release will be the last time we go but I\u2019m less excited about it every year. I\u2019ve done it for 6 years and we have TONS of BCS to drink.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So\u2026this was a 10 year hobby? I guess so. I think you\u2019ll witness a slight resurgence of my hobby here or Flickr or on RateBeer after my cellar is drank down. When I consume my last bottle of pre-2016 Lambic, I\u2019ll need to replenish. I love the juice but I don\u2019t need to buy 150 bottles of it a year and only open 10. That\u2019s how you get to 1000.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This year, thanks to the pandemic and my motorcycling hobby, we took only one beer-cation and that was for Chicago and Black Friday. We brought back 25 bottles of Bourbon County Stout and we haven\u2019t opened any of them yet because I am still drinking 2016 and 2015 BCS from our 5 gallon kegs. It\u2019ll take me 3-4 years to get to 2021 BCS releases.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We visited Hill Farmstead on average, once a month and I did break down and buy one magnum this year, a Madness &amp; Civilization 14 in addition to new ratings and a few 4-packs of cans. I was honored that Hill Farmstead provided us with 3 kegs for our wedding which took place in October. Shaun sold me kegs of Anna and Arthur 3 years ago and we kept those kegs in the cooler to slowly age. We finished the Anna but the Arthur is on our kegerator downstairs and it\u2019s delicious! He also sold us a fresh Edward keg and everyone finished that in one day. Given the price of the saison kegs, I\u2019m glad we got to bring those home.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I consumed the last of my pre-2019 Bruery beers this year. It was a lot of work drinking 750ML bottles of 20% imperial stouts but I got through it and put on a few pounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few more fun 2021 stats:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I drank 28 bottles of Lambic (fruit\/Gueuze). The oldest was 2008 and newest was 2017\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>70 beers from Bruery with an average ABV of 14%<\/li>\n<li>113 beers were rom Hill Farmstead. The oldest as was 2013<\/li>\n<li>141 of my beers were in the Stout category with 120 being \u2018imperial\u2019 as in a higher gravity<\/li>\n<li>Untappd says I had 415 beers in 2021 with 259 of those being unique. That\u2019s impressive! 35% of my beers were new<\/li>\n<li>Country Breakdown of unique beers: 224 from USA, 30 from Belgium and the rest from elsewhere.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>State: Vermont in the lead at 87 followed by 70 for California, 27 from Illinois<\/li>\n<li>8PM and Saturdays are my biggest time per day to drink and day of the week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>ABV Update for 2021:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2021: 9.275<\/li>\n<li>2020: 9.05%<\/li>\n<li>2019: 8.397<\/li>\n<li>2018: 8.655<\/li>\n<li>2017: 7.849<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It\u2019s still going up but like Heather said, I drink fewer beers and the ones I do drink are higher gravity so this makes sense.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For RateBeer, where I only log beers I\u2019ve never had before, it was another decrease this year. I rated 126 beers in 2021 down from 170 in 2020 and way down from my high 1127 in 2016. That\u2019s what happens when you find what beers &amp; breweries you like and stick to them. It makes life much simpler.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Compared to 2020, my check-ins on Untapped are down. 2020 was 545 check ins of 330 unique beers and, as said above, 415 check ins with 259 of those being unique.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Final note for 2021, I did not do any beer trades in 2021 but a buddy in Mighican with my last case of Schramm\u2019s has mailed me the mead from my 2019 membership.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s that! And I think, since I didn\u2019t post any beer tasting blog posts or beer haul images, it\u2019s fitting that I officially conclude a 10 year tradition of publishing an annual year in beer. Clearly I have other priorities now but I will continue to check into beers on Untappd &#8211; https:\/\/untappd.com\/user\/AdamChandler and RateBeer so you can find me there and add me as a friend if you want to follow along in the journey. Thanks everyone and here\u2019s to empty calories and liquid assets.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll leave you with this. Here\u2019s every beer I drank in 2021:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View &#039;Every Beer I Drank in 2021&#039; on Flickr.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjackson\/51804040596\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img  loading=\"lazy\"  decoding=\"async\"  style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"  title=\"Every Beer I Drank in 2021\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  alt=\"Every Beer I Drank in 2021\"  width=\"783\"  height=\"1024\"  border=\"0\"  class=\" pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-pk-src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51804040596_2cfb976cec_b.jpg\" ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before we begin, here are previous years: Year in Review and 2012 Plans in Beer Year in Review&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","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_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}},"categories":[188],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-year-in-review","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-2fj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8425,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2021\/01\/02\/%e2%98%85-year-in-review-and-2021-plans-in-beer\/","url_meta":{"origin":8637,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 Year in Review and 2021 Plans in Beer","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"January 2, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Before we begin, here are previous years: Year in Review and 2012 Plans in Beer Year in Review and 2013 Plans in Beer Year in Review and 2015 Plans in Beer Year in Review and 2016 Plans in Beer Year in Review and 2017 Plans in Beer Year in Review\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Year in Review&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Year in Review","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/year-in-review\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"2020 Untappd Year in Beer Statistics","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50791850648_b8c8c785c4_b.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50791850648_b8c8c785c4_b.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50791850648_b8c8c785c4_b.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50791850648_b8c8c785c4_b.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":8149,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2019\/12\/20\/year-in-review-and-2020-plans-in-beer\/","url_meta":{"origin":8637,"position":1},"title":"Year in Review and 2020 Plans in Beer","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"December 20, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"I\u2019m just realizing that I skipped the 2019 post. 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