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What do you get out of your review?
General Beer Discussion by BEERCRONIC
I've seen lots of different styles for reviews from one liners to paragraphs to personal accounts that link certain beers to events in life or just plain nonsence. Where are you going with your reviews? Do you want to read your review and remember that beer for reasons of comparing to others or are you satisfied with "beer was amber, taste was malty, smelt like hops"? Are you on a mission to get in tons? Are you typing in a months worth of reviews in one night? We all have different motivations for posting reviews. Also, are your best reviews done infront of the computer (yes, I more than understand how sad that is)? I personally want to go back to every beer and be able to say I remember that for whatever reason even if it sucked. I've found that the extra effort pays off for my personal uses especially after the reviews really start to pile up. I find that a good description is essential when drinking the beer again to help compare or confirm what I thought or if I typing while unable to focus. My best reviews are always done while drinking infront of this cursed fattening machine.
17 years ago
I found this site when i began to sample the brews at my local beer store and wanted to become well acquainted with the beers before i bought them. I then realized that it was also good for me to keep track of what I had rated and this site allows me to do this. Its really more for me then for others, I just put my thoughts on the beer, I really don't know about some of the fancy terms other reveiwers use but im sure there important.[:D]
I started on BP as a way of learning and growing as a beer drinker. My reviews are for my edification only, since I'm not the poet some are here, in addition, I live in beer hell, so I take and rate what I can get. I make it a point to NOT look at other's reviews as I review a specific brew so as not to get undue influence. Someone stated earlier that they give personal details such as location, music and such. I love this, as it allows me to revisit a favorite. It also precludes me from trying some surely vile brew.
DIRTYAMERICAN
2466
Since I'm not an excellent judge at beer I don't do very good reviews but I do try to rate it compared to other styles of that beer type for reference.
I have learned to appreciate beer a bit better through my reviews. By reading other reviews, I have learned to look for other things within the beer, and I try and translate those points when thinking about my own reviews. It has made drinking a beer a lot more fun than before.
MATTFUNGUS
5888
obssessive compulsive disorder displacement. Its this or listing all of the cartoons I watched when I was a kid and trying to figure out the exact order I saw them in and being particularly obsessed with the schoolhouse rock session which of the multiplication rock episodes I saw first, then which grammar rock episode, then which history rock, then which science rock, and of each of those which one took the longest to see and which ones do I remember the best and can still sing and what musical form each used and which inaccuracies occurred in each cartoon.[:p]
SLOWRUNNER77
84439
holy hell...we ARE the same person!
quote: Originally posted by mattfungus
obssessive compulsive disorder displacement. Its this or listing all of the cartoons I watched when I was a kid and trying to figure out the exact order I saw them in and being particularly obsessed with the schoolhouse rock session which of the multiplication rock episodes I saw first, then which grammar rock episode, then which history rock, then which science rock, and of each of those which one took the longest to see and which ones do I remember the best and can still sing and what musical form each used and which inaccuracies occurred in each cartoon.[:p]
BLUESANDBARBQ
74923
...told ya... scary.
quote: Originally posted by slowrunner77
holy hell...we ARE the same person!
quote: quote: Originally posted by mattfungus
obssessive compulsive disorder displacement. Its this or listing all of the cartoons I watched when I was a kid and trying to figure out the exact order I saw them in and being particularly obsessed with the schoolhouse rock session which of the multiplication rock episodes I saw first, then which grammar rock episode, then which history rock, then which science rock, and of each of those which one took the longest to see and which ones do I remember the best and can still sing and what musical form each used and which inaccuracies occurred in each cartoon.[:p]