My $0.02 On Adding a Beer on This Site

I always start with Search, and if I get no hits, but I feel like the beer SHOULD be there, I’ll scroll through the listed beers for the brewery.

Also, brewery names should only be part of the name for collabs, in my opinion.

 

Regarding pictures

1. The old picture, even when deleted, has to basically get out of the 'system' before a new one is uploaded. Usually takes about an hour or so to do. If you upload a new one right away, it reverts to the old one

2. I've denied a lot of pictures for various reasons including bad quality, lighting, multiple beers in the pic, etc. Basically we just want a clear picture that showcases the beer that is being submitted and nothing else.

3. A lot of times there are multiple pictures for the same beer in queue, so we will approve the first one, then the second one won't get submitted.

4. Multiple times the picture submitted is the wrong beer

5. If you have questions about pictures, I suggest you ask @superspak He's the frickin' picture guru and probably has submitted several thousand

 

I usually include a link to an already resized picture when I submit a picture correction, yet that has never gotten properly implemented so far except once, which I find odd. I usually have to wait until the picture gets taken down and then upload the new one, as @bbtkd has described. I'm just wondering why submitting a link to a resized picture doesn't work most of the time...

I also get the feeling that there is an unwillingness to replace outdated pictures with current ones, or is that just my impression? Label art can change quite a lot over time, wouldn't it be in the best interest of the site to have current pictures available? I've submitted a few corrections for outdated art already and most of those pictures never got taken down, so I finally gave up on it...

@dbrauneis @dvmin98 @superspak

 

In general, if the label art has changed and a request is submitted then I remove the old picture so a new one can be added. I do not believe there is an unwillingness to remove outdated pictures.

As for downloading pictures from random links provided in the update, I would prefer not to with my personal computer as a volunteer (who knows what lurks in someone's dropbox or the like)... So once the picture is removed you can upload the picture (and get the BeerKarma associated with it).

 

Sometimes I do that when I add the beer if I'm out and about and then I come back at a later time and type up a full review from my notes - there can be a decent delay between those events.

 

I review everything I have at home but sometimes when I'm out I just don't have the space to take good notes and hate typing up a full review on the phone (or I'm actually socializing and don't have time for a full review). I still review a large percentage of the beers I drink.

 

One more thing to assist us Site Editors, please look for consistency in how beers are named when there are a lot in a series (depending on how the breweries' name them)...

Examples:
Tree House - Curiosity Fifty (not Curiosity 50 or Curiosity #50)
Westbrook - Rinse / Repeat - Galaxy (not Rinse/Repeat (Galaxy) or Rinse / Repeat: Galaxy)

 

I was wondering how this is supposed to be handled when the beer name consist ONLY of the style name. Like Weihenstephaner Pils or Black Sheep Milk Stout, for example. These seem to have the brewery name included fairly consistently from what I can tell and I guess it kinda makes sense, but I still wanted to double-check.

Also, this is a bit off-topic, but I don't really want to open a new thread for it, so I was wondering if all of the Stone Berlin beers that are not unique to Stone BERLIN, e.g. IPA, Ripper, Go-To, etc. shouldn't really be merged with their Stone Brewing counterparts. After all these are exactly the same beers, just brewed in two different locations.

 

It would certainly be nice if notes and a picture could both be added right when adding a beer, instead of having to do that separately afterwards. Would simplify things quite a bit...