FAO UK Admins - Breweries/Places Housekeeping

The beer I had was certainly branded as Love Lane only rather than Liverpool Craft. I have submitted this image as a correction.

Corrections to pictures are unfortunately are in the major bugs issues that are currently not being worked on. We used to be able to push them through but that bit seems to be broken now with no prospect of a fix until the new Beer Pages are up and running and I believe the piece of work that Joe is working on after that.
We shall see.

The commercial descriptions are very similar, however Chris one of the brewers is someone that I follow on Twitter I could ask him to be doubly certain, however I firmly believe that they are one and the same.

I’m sure Carling Black Fruits is contracted to Hereford Pilgrim Drinks like their other ciders.
https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/carling-black-fruits-cider/536473/

Just added a new place in Wales and in doing so noticed there’s a fair bit of clean up required if any of you ever have the time. Not sure if it was already mentioned but perhaps worth pointing out again.

https://www.ratebeer.com/places/countries/239/

The prevailing format for the non-major cities appears to be backwards (County, City rather than City, County) which probably isn’t helping with mapping, though I do understand this is more organised when viewing the list alphabetically. But then again, are we favouring prettier organisation over practicality? I would imagine most of us, especially non-locals, aren’t going to know the Welsh counties so will need to Ctrl-F to find the city we’re looking for.

Whichever way is chosen it should be kept consistent though. There are a few dupes there due to being in the wrong format, or using a hyphen instead of a comma. Personally I think City, County is the superior and more natural format, but that’s just my opinion.
Glamorgan, Bridgend, Gwynedd, Monmouthshire and Powys are 5 areas I see falling foul from scanning down the list.

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Without the stats fodder that you get from a “full” regional split on RB, I wonder whether we should be working along these lines,

As you say, the current divisions are only really useful to those who know something about Welsh geography (but not a lot).

Personally, I feel that spoofing a regional split when one hasn’t actually been implemented on RB is a rather clumsy way of doing things and causes problems (e.g. with mapping, as you mentioned) elsewhere.

Dropped into thebplace yesterday as It’s around the corner from the beer festival I went to. No Dickens beers on and no reference to their beers. Asked the barman who said that they no longer have a brewer so no brewing taking place. Not sure if that’s temporary or not.

Just added a Wander Beyond Into The Woods Part 4 it should be PART 3

Tilford Brewery now have a website:

http://www.tilfordbrewery.beer

The brewery at the coffee roasters on Holy Island shut some time last year, when the brewer moved to Berwick on Tweed.

https://www.ratebeer.com/brewers/beacon-brauhaus/29101/

I understand that Pie and Ale, Manchester has closed.

https://www.ratebeer.com/p/pie-ale-manchester/51566/

Change of opening hours for Hop and Cleaver, Newcastle

Mon – Thu 5PM – Midnight / Fri – Sun 11AM – 1AM

https://www.ratebeer.com/Place/state/city/placename/60591.htm

Oh this was complicated…

Had this beer…

https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/elusive-spellbinder-coffee-porter-hasbean-brazilian-fazenda-cachoeira-da-grama/612736/

But couldn’t add the full beer name of the of the edition due to limitations of characters. The edition detail is included in the description.

Unfortunately added the pic for this beer to the standard version.

https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/elusive-spellbinder-coffee-porter/554246/

It has yet been updated but shouldn’t be.

Also not sure what Editions or the standard version others have had except @richthevillan who based on his untapped pic had the other version I added.

https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/elusive-spellbinder-coffee-porter-hasbean-el-salvador-finca-noruega-natural-bo/612749/

I included a screen grap of his bottle. But also had to add the full Edition detail into the description due to character length.

Phew. All done.

  1. Real Ale Store https://www.ratebeer.com/p/real-ale-store-newark/23082/

  2. Inn at Home Guildford https://www.ratebeer.com/p/inn-at-home-guildford/64524/

  3. Inn at Home Newbury https://www.ratebeer.com/p/inn-at-home-newbury/66168/

  4. All of Cloudwater’s DIPA v series are over 1 year old so can be retired (1-6 already retired but 7-13 are still live).

While we’re on Cloudwater, just so you know I’ve added today’s release of “DIPA V3 2018” as a new entry. 2018 is part of the name on this one and hopefully the admins agree with this being a new entry given the length of time that has passed since the original, tastes changing, and the fact there are some differences in the brew (-0.5% abv change, different yeast, slightly different quantities/timings - all explained in their blog post and the beer description). And it would be a shame to affect the original’s rating, for better or worse, given its legendary status. However, feel free to alias to the original if that’s not acceptable reasoning.

Many thanks for this. Now corrected.

Yes, we were looking for a way to group places to areas for visitors to a particular country. We looked at Compass Points, GBG areas and counties. Admittedly non look great but the old counties are the best fit even if the visitor may not know the county system. If I had my way all beer drinking countries would be split as with England, but I don’t. The hyphen problem came about because of an untested site update that made a complete mess of places and hasn’t been resolved totally yet. I have been through every current pub and changed but some are impossible to find as the mapping doesn’t work properly as another stupid update got rid of the map fixing marks. As much work as we put in can be completely destroyed by ill thought out changes unfortunately. Wales is thinly populated with lots of small villages so grouping them in some sort of format is for the best as long as our powers that be leave them alone.

I’ve closed the Brewery. Many thanks for the information. I presume they may restart in the future.
I have to say the beers I had there were terrible, so no real loss.

Oops, sorry Fin, I saw a doubled up beer and deleted it. Could you re add Part 3 please.

Website now changed to this. Cheers

Another short lived brewery! Now closed on here. Cheers