Web 2.0 Beer Engine?
Perhaps this who Web 2.0 social networking and collaboration thing has gone too far: I found this website called Coastr (having the obligatory dropped "e", of course). Coastr.com is "an experiment in social networking for beer snobs…The basic idea is for you to create a list of your favorite beers, and to connect you with other people with similar tastes. And those connections will help you discover interesting new brews that you might have not known about before." I didn’t realize that I couldn’t find good beers on my own by…I don’t know, drinking them? And if the site is for beer snobs, then why are Corona, Pabst Blue Ribbon, and Red Stripe showing on the homepage under the recent adds? However, the site has a link to places to drink beer, where you can look up a city and find its watering holes pinned to a map, which could be useful to see where the hot party spots are when you’re away from home. Still, social netorking for beer? I’m not feeling it.
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Maybe they could call it Overratr?
A beer site, that’s pretty funny. People can bond in such different and weird ways. It’s not surprising at all that people can also bond over beer. I feel favorable towards the site because it is an unique idea, and I can see people getting together through the site.
Yeah, I have to blush now and admit that I already signed up and added a few of my favorite local beers and pubs. Who knows? Beer snobs are harder to find than wine snobs, maybe this site has a future.
An open-source beer?