The Tankard Rating System
The Beer Wrangler & Wranglerette rate all beers on a scale from 1 to 5 Tankards as described below:
Poor – Its time to take this beer out back and put it out of its misery!
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Mediocre – While you shouldn’t say no if it’s free, It’s not good or bad – this ain’t a beer to be buyin’ a whole lot of..
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Recommended – It might not be a classic but it’s a great beer for sharing round the campfire.
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Excellent – Yeehaw & Giddyup! This is beer to protect from rustlers and should not be .missed.
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Truly Outstanding – We’ve struck GOLD! This beer exemplifies the style and is a Beer Wrangler classic!
All beers’ ratings are a personal opinion of the reviewer, and try to reflect the style that the beer is being sold as. For example a classic pilsner is not going to have the flavour complexity and depth of an aged barley wine – but it’s not supposed to! So a beer given a 5 Tankard rating is relevant to that class and style – not to Beer in general.









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