A friend of mine just introduced me to BeerRiot.com. It’s a beer rating/recommendation site. It’s actually quite cool. Basically, you give beers a rating of Like, Shrug, or Dislike. It compares your ratings to those of other users and gives you recommendations for beers that you would probably like. After spending a little time on it going through all the beers I could think of (some which I had to add myself because they weren’t there, meaning they probably didn’t count much towards my recommendations), I checked the recommendations. Apparently, I really need to try Dogfish Head’s 120 Minute IPA as that’s by far the top recommendation according to this site.
I’m occasionally active on Beer Advocate, reviewing beers when I have the time to really think about what I’m drinking and posting on the forums there. This site is a bit different. It doesn’t seem to give overall ratings, at least not to the extent that BA does, but it does give you a recommended list of beers to try. I found that pretty cool, so I’m going to seek out some of the beers it listed I think. Hopefully, Nikki’s will have most of them.
Also cool about the site is that it uses the Yaws web server, which is designed for dynamic-content web apps. As I don’t know much about Yaws, I’ll let you read up on it and learn more about it. So far it seems pretty neat.
Hey Jim. Thanks for stopping by BeerRiot. You’re right - a central point of BeerRiot is that overall ratings are meaningless (because taste is a very personal thing), and thus the only ratings you see on the site are those that take your personal tastes into account. These ratings only get more accurate with more users, so invite all your friends!
Hope that Dogfish Head 120 Min. works out for you.