You've tried 340 beers across 80 breweries and 120 pubs. The question you're now asking — which breweries consistently deliver across multiple beers, and which had one standout that everything else has failed to live up to — is a data question. Your memory can answer it for the top five and the bottom five. The middle 70 breweries live in a fog.
Beers Deluxe was built to answer that question.
The Satisfaction Architecture
Rating is your 0-5 star score per beer. Future action classifies your intent: Seek Out, Good (worth having again), Tolerable (won't refuse if it's the only option), Avoid. Beer % satisfaction is the calculated field that converts those inputs into a percentage metric — your rating scaled against maximum possible, or a combined formula that weights future action into the score.
The real intelligence is in the brewery aggregation. Brwy satisfaction, Brwy Seek-outs, Brwy Good, Brwy Tolerables, and Brwy Avoids auto-populate based on every individual beer you've rated from that brewery. Auto brewery score calculates from those aggregates; Brewery score is the field you can override with your own judgment if the algorithm misses the texture of the data.
The implication: after rating your fourteenth Thornbridge beer, you have a statistically grounded view of where that brewery sits in your personal hierarchy — not from a single exceptional pint of Jaipur, but from the full distribution including the ones that didn't quite land.
The same structure repeats at the pub level: Pub satisfaction, Pub Seek-outs, Pub Good, Pub Tolerables, Pub Avoids, Auto pub score, Pub score. The pub you keep returning to because their cellar management is consistently excellent will surface as a higher pub score than the gastro pub with the premium tap list that comes through at the wrong temperature.
The Individual Beer Record
Brewery, Beer, Pub, Alcohol, Colour, and Comes in (draft, keg, bottle, can) document the product. Pump clip picture stores the visual identifier — the pump clip or label photo that makes the record recognizable when you're browsing in list view and can't remember which Thornbridge IPA was the exception that outscored everything.
Strength as text converts the ABV percentage into a categorical descriptor — Session, Premium, Strong, Very Strong — that groups beers by consumption context. A 3.8% session ale and a 7.2% imperial stout aren't comparable on the same scale without acknowledging that you're having a completely different drinking experience.
Notes is the tasting note field — colour description, nose, palate impressions, finish. Unlike the structured 0-5 scoring, this is where the qualitative texture lives. An 8% barleywine that you scored 4 stars with a "Seek Out" action but noted "overwhelming sweetness in mid-palate, loses complexity after warm" tells a future version of you something specific about the beer that no star rating can encode.
The Linked Intelligence
Beers Deluxe GPS links each beer record to the paired pub location database — connecting the beer you tasted to the specific venue where you tasted it. Pub location and info carries the venue summary; Web and Brewery website provide the direct access links.
Over a few years of consistent use, the database doesn't just tell you which beers you liked — it tells you whether you liked them because they were genuinely good or because the cellar conditions and serving temperature at a particular pub made everything taste better than it would have elsewhere.