Differentiate draft from can/bottle for review/rate/search

You likely remember this, but there was a time that there were radio buttons for Serving Type on the page to review the beer. I don't have strong feelings about it one way or the other, but that functionality was removed quite some time ago. I think at that time you could review a beer multiple times (one for each serving type).

I found it most useful scanning through reviews to see if a beer had ever been packaged, or was apparently draft-only. Though that wasn't universally applicable, especially if the beer had just been released.

 

I am in agreement with you to an extent but doubt that is a feature that will come back.

In the past you could write several reviews for beers based on the format/presentation. I can recall several times where I wrote reviews for draft vs bottle and the difference between the two varied significantly - to the extent that I loved the bottled version and hated the draft!

However, the system was flawed a bit for beers that had relatively no difference. For example: reviewing both draft and growler is kinda silly.

I guess the point im trying to make is that the brewer likely intends for the product to be the same regardless of what format you drink it in. (The only outlier here maybe being nitro or cask delivery.) So, while the differences can be noted, the law of averages probably works to make the differences negligible.

Also... the current review database is a god damn mess with people creating duplicate entries. I cant even imagine the full time job someone would need to keep that nightmare updated sorting through reviews for incorrect format if that option was added back.