I joined purely out of curiosity. I will continue to participate on Untappd for the same reason. My Untappd “check ins”, however, will be abbreviated cross-posts of what I post here. in fact, I think on Untappd, I will usually just “Check In” and maybe post a one sentence comment. I find online forums, such as this one, to be a far more user-friendly platform for actual discussion.
All that said, who knows — maybe Untappd will surprise me somehow.
Brian- I am testing it also…but am not sure it is the final answer as I stroll my local Total Wine/BevMo places and try to decide…is it gonna be a sixer of Old Spekled Hen or a big ol’ Bruery Saison Rue for this weekend?
It’s more or less a Facebook for beer geeks. If it’s tasting notes you want then BA is more the source for that, although there sure are a lot of 22 year old kids there that are more like lemmings rating any hyped beer at the top whether it’s good or not. I have liked an awful lot of beers that have mediocre ratings, but I guess that could be said for wine too.
+1. I can promise anybody that “follows” me on Untappd that my ratings/thoughts on beers will be not-at-all influenced by whatever anybody else thinks of them.
Yeah the notes field is basically the same as twitter. I rarely write anything other than one word things to remind me if I liked it. Like “gross” '“boring” or “yum”.
I like it because it keeps a record of what I have tried.
THis is what intrigues me about it, too. I also figure that after a year or two, I might pay the $5 monthly “supporter” fee (or whatever they call it), so I can see my personal statistics.
I don’t know. I just got on the app and I can’t find what I’m talking about. It must be the web version that has this (I’ve checked it out online, too).