I’m guessing 2000? Anyone know for sure?
Thanks!
There’s an interesting thread on BA aboot the number of IPAs in the database over the years:
Number of American India Pale Ales and Double IPAs listed on BeerAdvocate over the last 20 years (includes retired beers).
1998 = 4
2008 = 2,148
2018 = 61,629 (18% of the beers in our database)
Is there any way to find out the same for RB?
Only Joe has access to the database to answer that question; but it’s interesting and I will ask if we can calculate similar metrics for all styles.
Yes, for sure RB opened in 2000.
we have 59790 IPAs and 20831 DIPAs in our database, altogether 80621, which makes up 12.65% of our database.
In 2001, we had 101 IPAs in the database out of a total of about 4500 beers (or so it seems according to a search on the archived version on the internet archive) and not even a style called Imperial IPA.
In 2008, it’s hard to pin it down because the page of “top raters by style” is only available for premium users.
Yikes!
I came to this thread because I thought you were asking when it sold (in part) to In-Bev, i.e in 2016 (https://www.goodbeerhunting.com/sightlines/2017/6/2/ratebeer-zx-ventures-acquisition-minority-stake-anheuser-busch-inbev) which probably is worth mentioning in this thread, as an important event in RateBeer’s business history.
I don’t think so. Pretty much everyone who posts regularly on this forum is aware of that.