My $0.02 On Adding a Beer on This Site

Ahhh, true. That could be.

 

Wait site editors are volunteers? No pay? Why do it??

 

Altruism, love for beer? Guess you also learn a lot.

 

IMO, they do it for the love of beer. A non-selfish way of trying to make it easier for any and all to rate or review a beer.

 

I already spend a lot of my time reviewing and posting on this site. I was already submitting site edits and pictures before I even became one. I like doing it.

 

Yeah but the owners of the site make money, no? I just figured everyone working on the site got paid something, even a small amount. That’s fine if you want to not get paid, I was just surprised. Carry on.

 

It seems counter intuitive and cluttered to have 10,000 listings just named "Blonde Ale". I understand the redundancy issue with the brewery name but it should be OK, for example, for Boquerón Brewing's Blonde Ale to be named "Boquerón Blonde Ale", as they themselves call it. However, if the beer has a proper name like Funky Buddha's "Last Snow", then the name should be "Last Snow" instead of "Funky Buddha Last Snow". In 6+ years on here I've always thought the "[Brewery] [Style]" format was widely accepted and the standard for beers that don't have a proper name. After reading this, it looks like I was wrong, but it's something that should be looked at, I guess.

 

Because it's a huge pain in the ass when a user tries to look up a beer, and all beers are listed under the brewery name. I get it, I already typed the brewery name in to get to their page, I don't need to see "Alpha Brewing" Blonde; Alpha Brewing IPA; Alpha Brewing Scrotum; Alpha Brewing Scapula; ad nauseum

We get it, we know what the fucking brewery name is. Just list the beers by name.

 

Well if you type in "Alpha Brewing IPA" only the IPA should show up, not every single beer in Alpha's roster. And if you search only for the brewery, all the brewery's beers should be there listed; regardless if the brewery name is there or not. The "pain in the ass" you're referring to doesn't exist. Unless by "pain in the ass" you mean reading/skipping one extra word at the beginning of the listing.

Also, as I mentioned in my examples. "Alpha Brewing Scapula", the name is just "Scapula". I agree there that the name is redundant. "Blonde Ale" is just a beer style, not a proper name. So "Alpha Brewing Blonde Ale" makes sense. Nowhere am I saying all beers should have it. Just when there's no actual name.

 

Right, so the name of the beer is "Boquerón Blonde". You type that in the search, it takes you to the beer. I don't see why having "Boquerón" on there is detrimental.

 

Huh?

It was a hypothetical example in response to @beertunes. But thanks for the explanation?

The only "standard" I could find is on this post from 2014, which mentions a standard naming convention is in the works. Anyway, the one there says: "There's no need to add the full brewery name to the beer name. It's redundant." Which could be interpreted as: "Boquerón Brewing Company Blonde Ale" is not OK, but "Boquerón Blonde Ale" could be OK.

In any case, I'm not debating/arguing for or against doing anything. I'm just expressing my opinion that if a beer doesn't have an actual name and just goes by the style (which is not actually a name), having the brewery on there is no big deal.

Also keep in mind that there's a pretty large mount of beers with that "[Brewery] [Style]" naming format currently on the site and there's no disclosure on the "Add Beer" page. Maybe that's something that can be added under the name entry box in the future to avoid this sort of thing since it looks to be a pretty common issue.

 

Do you not understand that I was using the phrase/term/title "Alpha Brewing"as a generic example?

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My bad, enjoy your next beer, didn't mean to hurt your feels.

 

Unless, in a hugely shocking development, that is how the brewery choose to describe it. You think you know better than the brewer?

 

Sorry, I might have jumped in when it might have been better I didn't. Edit as needed.

 

I do and my point still stands. You're making up a problem where it doesn't exist. I can see the issue with adding the brewery name to every single entry but that's not what I'm talking about and I agree that it's redundant in a lot of cases.

So we agree that if the brewery names their Blonde Ale "[Brewery] Blonde Ale" the brewery's name should be in there. Thank you, have a great day.

 

FitBeer brewery: had I only (correctly) added the name of the beer it would have been " ". I dared to add "FitBeer" as the beer name. But guess that is the great exception… https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/52511/340202/