Nuts to the Ratings!

Ratings: who ever cared about ratings? High ratings are no guarantee of quality and indeed, some of the most prolific novels, films and texts have been bigger hits than their ratings ever were. Beers are like poetry: they mean so many different things to different people and so, because of this, I am going to be removing ratings from my reviews. I want the reader to make their own conclusions about a beer based on their own tasting, hopefully motivated by what I have professed. What works for you may not work for me: every now and again, we may beet in the middle! I dare say, we could even agree! My reviews were meant to help you make a decision and I feel it a condescension to suppose to rate a beer. Drinkers are discerning and breweries work incredibly hard to forge the product that they do. Fortitude and diligence and heart go into brewing: who am I to stamp a rating on such master works? Sucks to the rating! Here's to drinking!