The Beer Lab
Two decades of tastings, distilled
Every beer on Hop Horizons has been tasted and scored by one consistent palate over more than two decades. The Beer Lab turns that archive into something you can explore — the best beers, breweries, pubs and places, plus the records, oddities and patterns hiding in the numbers.
Logging since January 1970 · 56 years
32,311Tastings logged
27,295Distinct beers
4,178Breweries
114Countries
1,754Pubs & places
1,034Logbooks
From the cellar the current record-holders
Highest ratedOmnipolloscope #2Omnipollo100.0%Strongest88 Brewing Scottish Beithir FireBrewmeister75.0% ABVMost enjoyedOld PeculiarTheakston30 timesTop breweryPalo Altoby weighted score96.3%Top pub or placeLiberoby weighted score91.4%Best place to drinkPeruby weighted score96.5%
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Rankings
🍺Top BeersThe highest-scoring beers in the archive.
🏭Top BreweriesWho brews the beers I rate most highly.
🍻Top Pubs & PlacesThe best spots I've found to drink.
🏙️Top Towns & CitiesWhere the beer scene shines.
🌍Top CountriesBest countries to drink in, ranked.
📋Top StylesWhich styles win me over most.
🧪Build Your Own ListSort and filter the whole database, your way.
Dig deeper
🌿Hop VarietiesExplore beers by the hops inside them.
📊ABV AtlasThe collection organised by strength.
📖Beer StylesA guide to every style I track.
🍻All Craft BeersBrowse the full beer catalogue.
Stats & science
🕸️Flavour FingerprintsRadar profiles of every beer style, overlaid.
📈24 Years in NumbersThe arc of the archive & what I've discovered.
🎯ABV vs ScoreDoes strength predict quality? Zoom in and see.
Still to come: a map of where to drink.