Sunday, 31 December 2023

Beer Goals 2023 - Result

My beer goals for 2023 were as follows (with inline comments):
  • Get from 202 to 205 Ratebeer countries       [Goal achieved 2023-12-31]
    • ✅ Thanks to three trades, managed to get to exactly 205. Dropped down the list from 9th to 11th though.
  • Get from 311 to 321 Ratebeer regions       [Current status: 319]
    • ❌ Only managed 8 new ones, ending the year at 319 regions.
  • Rate a beer from the last missing style
    • ❌ Still no luck, unfortunately.
  • Reduce styles I have tried less than 5 beers from 4 to 2      [Current status: 3]
    • ❌ Only managed to get 1 new style to 5.
  • Reduce styles I have tried less than 10 beers from 22 to 18       [Goal achieved 2023-09-02]
    • ✅  Did well, managed to get 6 new styles to 10.
  • Get from 1641 to 1710 breweries      [Goal achieved 2023-08-09]
    • ✅ Did much better than expected, reached 1756 breweries. Tried 115 new breweries this year, compared to 127 last year. Helped by our summer road trip.
  • Get from 1126 to 1350 Swiss ratings      [Goal achieved 2023-11-03]
    • ✅ Did much better and ended the year on 1413, so 287 new ones, compared to 267 last year.
  • Get from 309 to 350 Swiss breweries      [Goal achieved 2023-10-20]
    • ✅ Did very well, reached 371 Swiss breweries, so 62 new ones this year, compared to 48 last year.
Some Swiss regions related goals:
  • Reduce cantons I have tried less than 10 beers from 4 to 1      [Goal achieved 2023-07-08]
    • ✅ Managed, Uri was a bit tricky, though.
  • Increase cantons I am in the top-6 raters of beers from 19 to 25       [Goal achieved 2023-12-07]
    • ✅ Quite hard, but managed to get Ticino as the 25th one in December, after buying a Swiss Italian advent calendar online.
  • Increase cantons I am in the top-3 raters of breweries from 22 to 25        [Current status: 24]
    • ❌ A moving target. Went from 22 to 23, then back to 21, before I near the end of the year managed to crawl back up to 24.
  • Get from 147 to 200 Bern ratings       [Goal achieved 2023-12-24]
    • ✅ Reached the goal, just.
  • Get from 211 to 240 Fribourg ratings       [Goal achieved 2023-12-09]
    • ✅ Reached the goal, with one spare in the basement.
  • Get from 137 to 160 Vaud ratings       [Goal achieved 2023-12-25]
    • ✅ Reached the goal, just.
  • Get from 95 to 115 Zürich ratings       [Current status: 110]
    • ❌ Close, ended up on 110 with 2 in the cellar.
Quite happy with reaching 10 out of 15 of my 2023 goals!

Breakdown per canton:

CountCanton
53Bern
29Fribourg
23Jura
23Vaud
17St. Gallen
16Basel-Landschaft
15Ticino
15Zürich
12Glarus
11Basel-Stadt
11Uri
10Thurgau
10Valais
7Solothurn
6Aargau
5Appenzell Innerrhoden
5Nidwalden
5Schaffhausen
4Genève
4Obwalden
3Zug
2Graubünden
1Luzern
0Appenzell Ausserrhoden
0Neuchâtel
0Schwyz

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