Sat down to rate the first beer of my holiday and saw it was a a Bitter - Ordinary Best. Currently on 90 but already spotted some that the admins haven’t changed so that should change. A couple of random styles - ie what’s an English IPA? Already got the English Pale Ale bollocks and this’ll add more confusion.
You’ve just ruined nicks day. He woke in a cold sweat the night he completed all the RB styles, having dreamt RB added 3 more new ones. Hes now needing 30 styles. You heartless admins
for the most occasional users, if it’s not clear to them what style “Anchovy Blue Ale” should be in, they choose Unknown and let somebody else figure out.
At least they can now add the beer and rate it, instead of turning away.
Both styles are basically irrelevant and I would not have created a named style for them, if you ask me; tags are more than sufficient.
But I guess that the difference here is that a few (very few) examples of Kvass are popping up here and there in the US, kind of showing a minimal international interest, while Hvidtøl seems to be still confined.
Is there a way for that to be an option for adding so newbies can rate and that admins know that needs to reclassed but then the style doesn’t show up in our profile lists since ideally there should never be anything there?
I don’t particularly care but I think it would be better if this was hidden from user stats page. If it’s purpose is a temporary measure until an admin finds and fixes it I see no reason why it needs to be displayed to us when, in practice, almost everybody is going to always be at 0 aren’t they? Probably only going to be at 1+ for maybe a week or so. I can’t think of any beers that transcend such a huge number of styles that we couldn’t force it into one.
HOPEFULLY this is for absolute shite that is “Greene King IPA” and other horrendous examples of “IPAs”. This is how it’s used on Untappd and it’s generally a great indicator of which beers to avoid!
In all seriousness though I think that’s the actual use case isn’t it? I know we don’t use English Pale Ale, but English IPA is an actual term you kinda do see.
Dark Lager - International would be things like Negra Modelo, I guess. Things that were probably originally attempts at Bocks or Viennas, but which have evolved into something definitely different. There are probably closer to amber/brown than actually “black”.