'Add a Beer' Weekend

One further note to my comment from minutes ago.

I'll never just rate a brew without providing review comments.

That's one of my biggest issues with, 'Dumcrapped' is all the users who simply give star ratings and nothing else.

Tell me WHY you think a beer deserved a 2.5, 3.75, 5 ball, etc.

And if you rate a beer as great-to-exceptional (4-5), just don't give me an uninformative comment similar to:

"It's Top Stuff!" or

"I like it!"

Because if you think enough of a beer to give it a 4-5 rating, ya obviously enjoyed it immensely.

 

I have found that beers/photos added counts update overnight here in the US. You should see that the count has increased tomorrow.

 

Not using words is the whole point of Untappd. It's there for the quick hit, the pic, and the reward (badges). It's a beer gaming site, not a place for for thoughts and discussion. Let that stuff be over there. I gave up on UT 5-6 years ago, just because of those reasons, and that it was getting annoying.

 

I just added 11 beers from a brewery that was listed, but had none of their beers on the site.

www.socialfabricbeer.com

 

I'm gonna work on chipping away at the overall number, that way on the big weekend, y'all can make a bigger dent.

 

Love this idea. I would caution, assuming no else has yet to do so, that the weekend you're proposing is the weekend of the Super Bowl. Lots of eyes on the game on the night of 2/8 could equate to fewer beers added in those final precious hours of the weekend. Similarly, the following weekend is Valentine's Day, where folks may be doing various romantically-themed activities, not necessarily adding beers. This is all to say that the weekend of 2/24-2/25 might be better. It'll be the dead of winter and folks will have fuck all to do, so why not add some beers to the database?

 

I don’t think I can commit to a weekend. It depends whether I’m at a brewpub with a number of beers that haven’t already been added.
Today I was at Evil Twin in Dumbo Brooklyn and tried 4 new beers, 3 I could add.

 

Yeppers, I never use BA ratings to help choose a beer and I most certainly NEVER use 'Dumcrapped' ratings for anything at all & have sermonized to everyone & anyone for years about ignoring the 'Dumcrapped' ratings and paying more attention to Craft Beer & Brewing recognitions & awards of that ilk and other more reputable nature.

I would have mentioned GABF but for Sierra Nevada to get an award for their Pale Ale in the ESB category has me questioning any GABF awards going forward now.

Yeah, I've given up on 'Dumcrapped' a long time ago but since I'm too far down the road (8 years) of rating & reviewing brews on there I'll still keep checking into beers, especially new-to-me ones & then try to transfer my ratings & reviews over here within a day or so.

 

This makes sense to me. And I think you’re right to suggest that having it in the first full weekend post dry January could get a nice bump. Keep it for 2/7-2/8.

 

The Superb Owl is no distraction, but the Puppy Bowl is.

 

Maybe move it to the first weekend in March so we can add all the new summer seasonals that'll be coming out?

 

All analogies are imperfect, but I'm gonna roll with one anyway:

You know Crazy Horse memorial In South Dakota? They're carving a whole mountain in to a sculpture. They've been working on it since the late 1940's, and they're still working on it. Didn't just to blast it out in a couple years. They keep chipping away at the rock.

One big weekend, fun as it will be, will not gain us a quarter million beers. Just keep hammering away at the rock, one chunk at a time, and we'll gain those adds soon enough.