About the Rating System

This blog contains ratings for both drink recipes and ingredient brands.

I’ve come up with my own system basically because traditional rating systems have never made much sense to me. I mean, what’s the difference between a 3/10 and a 4/10 supposed to be? Are there different levels of suckage? If a drink sucks, it sucks. The End.

As an attempt to improve current systems, here is Dave’s Simplified Rating System (Explained):

Recipes:

• - Crap. Dishwater tastes better. Don’t even bother trying it. Note that since recipes on this site have gone through a judicious filter, i.e. me, this rating will hopefully be rare.

• - Not to my liking. I’m unlikely to ever make one again, or ask for one in a bar, but it’s worth trying to see what it’s like.

• - Nice. However, it’s unlikely to get much mileage because either there is some rarely stocked ingredient used, the process is too involved, or other similar complaints.
• - Now we’re talking. A good drink that I will come back to regularly.
• - Fantastic. One of a select few default drinks that always satisfy. One of my usuals.

Ingredients (mainly booze):

• - Piss. Stay away at all costs.
• - Drinkable if there’s nothing else. Water is still preferable.
• - Decent, but there’s something missing. Maybe it tastes cheaper than it is, maybe there are many alternatives that are just plain better.
• - Good stuff. A fine bottle that deserves to be bought on its own merits. Always a solid substitute for…
• - The default selection. Note that this can apply both to an expensive bottle and a reasonably priced bottle of the same spirit, the price-quality ratio is as important as the quality on its own.

If this is confusing, maybe taking a stroll through the site will help you work out what I’m talking about. I think it’s a good system that focuses on being useful rather than academic.

I am, of course, open to comments.