Top 250 Beer Notification

I just use the find function on the page (part of the browser to find it).

 

Did you mean when you're on a page for a specific beer to be able to know this information? Maybe this is something that could show up on the right side near the food pairings, glassware and temps sections. For example, when looking at Heady Topper, a ratings box could say:

• Ranked #1 in Top 250 Beers
• Ranked #2 in Beers of Fame
• Ranked #1 in American Double/Imperial IPA style
• Ranked #2 in United States
• Ranked #1 in New England

This could also include a link to the top list(s) it's ranked on to provide more cross functionality within the site.

 

For beers with very high ratings, it's obvious that they must rank high on one or more lists. However, there are some beers that have lower ratings but might be only ranked for a particular style or country/region. For example, Full Sail Big Daddy J's Malt Liquor only gets a 3.64 but is the top-ranked beer for the style. If I was at a bar or store looking up beers, I might not pick this one up based on the review average, but if I knew it was the top ranked beer for the style that might change my decision.

I really like the top lists feature of this site and have spent a lot of time looking at each of them. In some instances, I've added beers on the lists to my "wants" list to make it easier to remember what to look for. However, when I'm at a bar or store trying to make decisions on what to get, having more information in a single location could be helpful and speed up the process. Keep in mind that some places have poor cell phone reception and slow data speeds so it's tough to load page after page on your smartphone without taking a long time.

 

Depends on whether they are using the browser or the mobile application.

 

Most of the "crafty" stuff shows up under the BMC brewery (ie, Third Shit and Blue Moon under Coors and Shock Top under Anheuser-Busch).

The only cases where I know this is not true is where craft breweries have been acquired by BMC, like Goose Island.

On the other hand, I'm not sure I really care to see for each beer whether is part of a larger conglomerate - i.e., part of Miller Coors or AB-InBev.

 

Just because a brewery gets acquired (like my example of Goose Island) does not mean it is the equivalent of the other brands of the conglomerates - some of them way very well act as independent breweries and still make their product in the initial facility. In my opinion, that does not make a brewery "crafty" vs. "craft" as they are not pretending to be something they are not...

Why is that even important?

 

I guess that you could submit an update on each brewery after the acquisition to be contained in the Notes section if it was important to you... Personally, I don't really care but I suppose that is because I have worked in an industry where there is a lot of Merger & Acquisition activity.