The birth of this blog can be traced to one event - the apparent death of the BeerSeek application on Facebook. It was pretty awesome, you could type in basically any beer you could possibly imagine, and get a bottle picture, info about the booze level and brewer, and dozens of pretentious ratings from other drinkers. On a day that will live in infamy, I went to enter a rating and the app didn't load. No matter, I thought, it must be temporary. But now it's been down for months, possibly because it rips off all its info and pictures from ratebeer.com and they caught on, I don't know. But the point is....BEERS MUST BE RATED!!!!!!!!!!!
The main reason that I loved BeerSeek was that if I have the opportunity to try a new, interesting beer, I will pass up one I already know and love about 90% of the time. Unfortunately, a clever name and eye-popping bottle art don't always translate into great beer. Also, some German beers are a little tricky to keep track of: was that WiehenstepahillanSLISCHaphanner, or WiehenstepahillanGLISCHaphanner that was delicious? The app was a great way to rate beers as I tried them, and keep track of ones that were worthy of picking up again.
It seems like the only trustworthy way to keep track is to start my own record keeping process. Of course Blogger could go to crap and somehow lose all my ratings, but it seems reliable so far, based on my art/cartoon/fantasy football/game review blog that's been largely untended for a year. I won't list the IBUs of various beers. I won't compare the aromas to a midsummer's dream, poached plums, or horse blanket. I won't suggest the brewers add another handful of rare hops that only grow on southern foothills of a mountain in Portugal. All I will do is tell whether the beer is worth trying, based on deliciousness and value. That's enough for me.
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