Disneyworld help

I made an Excel spreadsheet of every craft beer available in Disney World before my trip in March. Well, at least for Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Animal Kingdom, Hollywood Studios, and some of the hotels I was staying in or resorts I was dining at (Animal Kingdom Kidani, Bay Lake Tower, the Contemporary, the Polynesian). If you're a member of Touring Plans, here's a link to the discussion thread where I posted the top 10s in each park.

http://forum.touringplans.com/t/beer-geek-guide-to-disney/32345/45

I had to rely mainly on the menus posted on WDW site, Touring Plans, and a couple other Disney sites. Beers and Ears doesn't seem to have been updated in a couple years. I found that my list was about 80% accurate after my trip. Mainly it wasn't that I got things wrong, it's that I just didn't know all the options at every location or some locations weren't listed as selling beer on the sites.

If anyone would like a copy of the spreadsheet, PM me and I'll send it along. As we have no plans at the moment for a return, I won't be updating it, so things will probably already have changed - for instance, Flower & Garden is almost over. But it's a start, at least.

 

This is awesome, but sadly is probably already less than 80% accurate since your trip in March. I think this is the reason the Beers & Ears app was never successful. The craft beer options across the parks, resorts, and shopping areas(Springs, Boardwalk) change all the time. We visit the parks once a month and stay at a Disney resort every time we do. I don't ever count on a place to have something that they did the month before when I visited(save the different country beers at EPCOT, those seem to stay the same for years on end). To make the B&E app or lists like it valid and reliable, you'd have to be on Disney property every day visiting each bar, restaurant, and food cart to see what they have, and then going back and doing it all over again once you were finished. On top of that Disney is constantly adding and removing venues, and some of them are seasonal. For me personally I've learned to bring my own or just take what I can get when it comes to purchasing on property.

 

I figured it wouldn't stay accurate for long. But I would encourage anyone headed to DW to make their own version that's up to date - it helped me make way better beer choices when I had a pretty good idea of what each venue offered. I was able to drink reasonably decent beers the whole time, and know when to pass up an average offering (even an average craft beer offering) if I knew a better option was soon to be near.