BoozeReviews.net

Our Ratings System

A ratings system came as sort of an afterthought… but, well, we need one… all the big guys use rating systems, so our site would be incomplete without some sort of point system for the beverages we imbibe. At first glance, the 100 point system seemed somewhat unoriginal… so we kicked around the concept of using a 69 point system. But then, that doesn’t really look all that hot on a shelf talker or in print. You don’t often see an ad for wine that screams “69 Points from Wine Spectator!”. In fact I’m not sure they even give scores that low.

But we do.

So we’ve got a Booze Reviews 100 Point Scale. But we may give something a 150 from time-to-time, then deduct points for other things… like how bad the hangover was, or it’s overpriced, or if they have stupid commercials on TV. Then again, if something sucks and we wake up the next morning feeling like we sucked on a sweaty gym sock all night, then we might just stamp a big fat 0 on our review, or a -10, or a -50, depending on the gravity of the hangover.

Some important things you should know
This is a for-fun project. We don’t take advertising money from anyone at this time, though we will graciously accept free booze from anyone who wants to send us some. The only ads you see are powered by Google, not by us, though we might get like 1¢ every time you click one. So, in a nutshell, our reviews are as straight-up as Jack Daniel’s out of the bottle.

Also, we are not snobs. We are average, everyday working guys (and girl) in our mid-late 20s and early 30s who just so happen to appreciate fine liquor, good beer and good wine. One of us works as an internet contractor for a store that has a remarkable wine and liquor collection, and gets paid in trade, so we have access to some booze that you don’t always find in Safeway. And we all like to talk about it. But we’re also not above drinking 2-Buck-Chuck from Trader Joe’s once-in-awhile, and even the bottomest bottom-end beers have some semi-productive uses: I mean, you don’t play beer pong with Guinness, but you’ve gotta play a good game of beer pong once in a while. You don’t do keg stands on kegs of Red Hook either. So we’ll review ‘em all, and we’ll tell you when and if we encounter any beverage that has a good feature outside of it’s oak, grain or fruit sabor.

(3 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5)

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