Beers of the World

[Russinating]

I loved doing this with you guys a few years back and I'm really surprised one didn't get instigated during the first lockdown/last year generally. Unless I missed it! It introduced me to some new breweries and brews and made a change from the usual weekly tipple.

I'm terrible with names so I've totally forgotten who used to run it, but I believe it was a fair amount of work. If enough people want to play again and I can offer a hand in running the show I'd be more than happy to.

Thoughts?

 

[Russinating]

I enjoyed it at the time but I'm not sure that it's a good thing to do during lockdown as it encourages going out, finding pubs and beer shops to take pictures of beer. Neither of which are really conducive with the "Stay at home" mantra.

Unless it can be done a different way.....

It'd be more of a challenge to find unique beers for sure without the weird one-off local ale brews you get in spit n sawdust pubs, but even my local Tesco Express has a fair range of independent beers, more so in larger superstores, not to mention supporting local breweries who are still doing click 'n collect and online specialists.

D wouldn't stand for Draught this time around, put it that way!

I don't mind doing this. Not sure how it's played though. Do we do it by country and explore that one then move to another? I think it we start anywhere it should be Belgium [or even start in the UK, why not?].

I believe the first iteration which I didn't play was based on countries hence the name, but of late it's just A-Z and has changed; I think last time Z stood for Zoo so it was just any beer with an animal-based name/logo/design etc. Cobra would count for example.

Sometimes the more mainstream beers would actually be the most unique whilst everyone else tries to go indie but ends up choosing the same.

 

[Russinating]

Nice one @Ahleckz. Like I said let me know if you need a hand with anything.

I did have a thought that might make the scoring easier and quicker; if everyone submits their entry along with its ID from ratebeer.com? I know in the past the same beer might have a different label just with age and bottle/can etc and so there were some errors.

Stella's ID is 1478 for example: https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/stella-artois/1478/

Could post the links to find out about the beer/brewery as well? Bonus point for highest rated??