Huh...all the poking around I do on this site and that never occurred to me. Makes sense - when I change to a new state I'll be using this!
What amazes me is how many have broken websites, or the sites clearly haven't been updated in years. These breweries may have had a web-savvy beertender that set it up, then left. Same for Facebook, set up, then nothing.
Yeah, it would be nice too if all the breweries displayed a 'Last Updated' date too (some do) but maybe we don't want to know that for what we're trying to do. ( I had cause to look at the website tap list for one of my local breweries, and it was noted as July, 2024 when last updated! I’ll be speaking to them about that.)
I believe adding beers improves both the quality of BA as a database and makes it more user friendly. Whether or not I choose to try a particular beer, it’s still available for others to enjoy and access the listing. I think that level of availability is especially inclusive for newer BAs who visit a brewery and appreciate seeing a fuller, more representative listing of their beers.
Well, I got off track, not listing all beers, so I ended up with 10 duplicates for 3 Casper breweries. I've submitted updates to have them removed and I apologize for being lax in my efforts to add beers.
With Ratebeer no longer around, and a lot of solid raters here, I think the site is still a place to bookmark.
Added a few dozen or more in the last two weeks & tried to limit the addition of last years' brews that may be currently out of production but at the rate my area breweries are bringing back old favorites, I've still got dozens more to go. We'll get to that million, whether it takes us 7-8 years or longer. "Never Give Up!" "Never Surrender!" (....& I still think Sigourney was hot in that catsuit uniform.....)
The last beer that I added this afternoon was 790497. Progress is being made approaching 800,000. When all this discussion started we were at 777429 on January 11th.
I'm trying to help but I keep having a problem with classifying the myriad pilsners that I'm encountering. How do I classify a "West Coast Pilsner?" Is it a bohemian pilsner or do we need a category called Pilsner, other?
That's really not the best category for them on BA. A couple of key style points: And That's not the way west coast Pilsner is at all, kinda the opposite
Not sure I care much about the spirit of the thing. If brewers decide to just make things that don't fit into an existing spot, cool, but, we're just trying to document its existence, not delve into its taxonomy. If they don't want to put it into a box, we can just add it to the pile of misfit beers.
This site is literally trying to fit beers into appropriate categories in order to rank them against each other. There's categories missing from the database as brewers experiment but there are categories here that work better or worse than others. "American Lager" isn't vaguely defined on the site, and it's very clearly not the place for lagers that feature hop flavors and aromas front and center.
I've gotten through MA, RI and am into letter "B" in Connecticut. I've added 1,083 beers since the call to arms and am thankful for the karma boost as well as adding to the hive mind. Lots of brewery only and draft only beers. I'm adding retirees as well with the idea that it completes the picture of what a brewery does - especially the small ones. It all captures history, in my opinion. Agree with @BBThunderbolt - frustrating when a brewery either tries to force fit something into a style it clearly isn't or makes up a new style moniker for a one-off. I wonder how many "oops" brews are responsible for those weird style designations? Yeah, we f'd up but we can't afford to dump it so let's call it something new. Equally frustrating is breweries that can't bother to list any information on their web sites. Lots of beers with no description or ABV without added digging. Yes - somebody has to do it, but you can pay a young 'un to maintain a website, no? Just a few words would be useful, in my opinion, and I don't think it's that hard to do. Not surprised at the dead links and closed breweries so far and I'm not even halfway thru New England at this point. Great to learn about small and very small outfits fighting the good fight with more than infinite variants of hazies (julius...jjuliuss...jjjuliusss...great brewery but just sayin'). Not surprised at all as far as some of the closures I've found to date. I've cut down on my duplicates, which I'm sure the mods appreciate. List "all" beers and I've finally learned the alphabet...apparently that helps
