RateBeer.com Awards World's Best Beers

Over 1 million ratings from beer consumers worldwide tallied to determine best beers and brewers.

Santa Rosa, CA (PRWeb) January 27, 2007 -- Over one million times for nearly the last seven years RateBeer.com beer reviewers worldwide have raised a glass to review a new beer. We've tallied the scores and the exciting results of the world's best beers and brewers are now in.

http://www.ratebeer.com/RateBeerBest/

As it has been for the entire history of the event, RateBeer Best was again the largest beer competition in the world -- over 1 million reviews of 59,000 beers from over 7300 brewers worldwide were tallied. A particular emphasis was placed on tastings from the last nine months. Additionally, brewpubs, bottle shops, restaurants and bars around the world were awarded prizes. Cheers to all the winners and to everyone who keeps the magical world of craft beer growing!

* EXPERIENCED REVIEWERS

Strongly supported by solid tasting experience: Even though the competition judging is fairly open to all consumers, the vast majority of ratings, 88%, were submitted by persons with over 100 tastings reported.

* WORLDWIDE

Limited American bias: Of the top 20 master raters, each with over 3400 ratings, only 25% are American.

* INDEPENDENT

RateBeer Best is a beer competition unique in its independence -- it is not supported by big brewers and distributors

* REAL SAMPLES

Unlike other beer contests, the emphasis was placed on tasting commercial samples -- not special batches prepared for festivals.

http://www.ratebeer.com/RateBeerBest/

Press contact: Joe Tucker, President, RateBeer, LLC. +1 (302) 476-2337.

ABOUT RATEBEER.COM

RateBeer.com is a proudly independent, worldwide online community of avid craft beer enthusiasts who come together for cameraderie, reference and discussion, onlne and offline, frequently and year round.

Joe Tucker, RateBeer's President and Executive Director, believes RateBeer fulfills a common, universal need. "Suburban sprawl means that for the first time in a few thousand years people no longer have ease of access to community social centers like the pub. RateBeer is a place where busy grad students, new parents and people who simply don't want to risk driving, can come together quickly and safely to share the day's pint over friendly discussion."

RateBeer strives to manage a large set of quality ratings with advanced formulaic filtration of low-value ratings and confidently presents the results of our rankings free to the public. RateBeer was founded in April 2000 and has enjoyed continued rapid growth ever since.

http://www.ratebeer.com/

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