My $0.02 On Adding a Beer on This Site

Didn't read much of this thread... but there's about 15 or so that I chose not to add because of laziness and I wish yall would try them and add them so I can tick :-)

 

NO! FOR FUCKS SAKE NO! One looks up a brewery, and then sees the beers, made by that brewer, listed in alphabetical order.

I'm a wee bit sad that you haz no grasp. Not much sads, but enough to make me hope you don't have access to the nuclear launch codes.

 

What aboot "No Name" beers or some variation of that? There seems to be a lot of them floating around...

 

I'm sorry your imaginary problem makes you so upset.

 

I was referring to brewers naming beers "no name"

 

When I entered this site I had greater difficulties to comprehend this. The brewery name often is the biggest text on the bottle, kind of counterintuitive not to add it. What's more, the instruction is to add the beer name "as the brewery names it". And in that name often the brewery name is included, also on their web page. But I have got to understand that redundancy thing better now, will avoid it.

When adding a beer you will have to look at the brewery list anyway, in those alphabetical ways, and there it's obvious you don't need the brewery name in the beer name, if it's exactly the same (except of course there may be some additional words/letters in the brewery name, should be easy to spot)

 

They call their Blonde Ale "Boquerón Blonde Ale". But their "La Piragua" Belgian Blonde is not called "Boquerón La Piragua Belgian Blonde Ale", just "La Piragua".

But I get it, if this is the naming scheme we want to blanket over the site that's OK and I will report beers with brewery names where I see them. That said, keep in mind people adding beer are not digging into some 3 page thread on the forums for correct instructions on how to add beer. One helpful tip would be to add a note under the name box on the Add Beer page, instructing not to add the brewery name period. Or Todd's 2014 post could also be updated to reflect this discussion.

If you search for just "IPA", 2 of the 3 IPAs that show on the 1st page with no names (Lagunitas' and Goose Island's) have the brewery names on there. And these are some of the biggest names around. So it's understandable why users adding beer would think that's OK. Hell, I've been here 6+ years and thought it was fine since Weihenstephan, Sam Adams and other "famous" breweries have their names like that here and everywhere else.

 

Ha-ha!

No Name it is

 

Another question that I have.

Which is better:

Entering a beer as, say, Jones or Jones Imperial Stout. I see a lot of one word beer entries that don't give you any hint of what style they are.

 

From what's been discussed here, I'd say it would just be "Jones". Since it's already listed under that style anyway and having the style on there is redundant. But the amount of beers with the "[Beer][Style]" title is even more common than the "[Brewery][Beer]" one, so I would understand the confusion when people try to add new beers.

 

So Melvin's Your IPA would be fine as Your?

 

That's different since the "Your" in there is a possessive pronoun and not an actual noun. It needs the IPA to work. So just the pronoun wouldn't be right, I would say. It just so happens the object is also the style name.

To user your earlier example, "Jones IPA", would just be "Jones" but "Jones' IPA" (since it's possessive) would be correct as "Jones' IPA".

 

If Imperial Stout is in the beer name as defined by the brewer I vote for Jones Imperial Stout. If not then not.

Only brewery names included in the beer names as defined by the brewer are FORBIDDEN... There may well be a Jones Pale Ale. Just Jones doesn't make the cut.

Not all breweries have those crazy unique easily recognizable names.