Have scooped beers on and off since the early 90’s. Went through phases of being semi desperate, keeping records, just drinking new beers. Never retained any of them! Started recording beers again in earnest in Oct ’11 and started to write reviews (for the first time) by the end of that year. Hit 1K rates mid Oct ’12 (had a 550 backlog from joining). At this point I was only the 1,003rd rater to hit 1K. Entered the top 100 raters on Feb 1 ’14 with 5,876 rates. Entered the top 10 ’Stouties’ on Mar 15 ’14 with 1,179 stoutie ratings. 1,000 Greater London ratings achieved on Aug 11 ’14. 2,000 unique breweries rated on Oct 27 ’14 @#32. Entered top 50 raters on Oct 27 ’14 with 9,247 ratings. Hit 10K rates on Dec 30 ’14, 47th person to do so. Hit 1K India Pale Ale ratings on Apr 12 ’15, 13th person to do so. 2K ’stoutie’ ratings clocked on Apr 26 ’15 @#4 position. First British wanker to break 1K CA ratings late ’15. First to hit 500 Black IPA ratings Feb 16 ’16. Became the 8th person to rate 1,000 places on RB, 22/05/16. Became the 17th person to hit 20K rates on 13/09/17 (although backlog probably meant I went through this barrier in spring/early summer). This also made me the 3rd person to hit 20K rates AND 1K place rates (Travlr and Leighton being there before me) ... 2nd to do 25K rates and 1K places after Travlr ...16/09/18. Became the first person to hit 700 Black IPA ratings on RB ... 23/09/17 and 800 in sumer 2018. 13th person to hit 25K rates on 16/09/18. 12th person to hit 30K rates on 01/11/20. [ less ]

Have scooped beers on and off since the early 90’s. Went through phases of being semi desperate, keeping records, just drinking new beers. Never retained any of them! Started recording beers again in earnest in Oct ’11 and started to write reviews (for the first time) by the end of that year. Hit 1K rates mid Oct ’12 (had a 550 backlog from joining). At this point I was only the 1,003rd rater to hit 1K. Entered the top 100 raters on Feb 1 ’14 with 5,876 rates. ...
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