BeerVoice.com, a home for your beer reviews

It would appear that our Twitter group of beer podcasters and bloggers have found and descended upon a new point of convergence for our opinions on beers – BeerVoice.com. All of this seems to have occurred within 24 hours of a tweet scuffle surrounding BeerAdvocate.

BeerVoice, currently in beta, is a simple and straightforward way for users to collectively share their opinions on the beers that we drink everyday. The front page of the site greets you with a search bar, a rotating list of featured beers, and a list of the most recently written reviews. Type the name of a beer or brewer in the search bar to get your next list of beers or reviews. At this point, many have likened it to the simplicity of Twitter. It’s true. Each review on BeerVoice has a maximum of 500 characters, and the choice of adding one of six face icons as a tally for your final score.

Even this early in the game, BeerVoice looks to have a large database of beers waiting to be reviewed. Each beer has its own page with an ABV rating, a link to other beers of the same style, a link to the brewer, and a list of all reviews for the beer. It pulls together most of the basic information one would need for a given beer, and displays it in a visually digestible way.

I very much look forward in seeing how this website will grow, and how the beer community might support it. I certainly have my ideas on how users could benefit from this site, especially if a few more features were implemented; that can wait for another time. It’s easy to sign-up and to start following others, so I definitely encourage you to browse the site for awhile. The reviews certainly came en masse tonight and they will hopefully continue at a constant rate.

As an example, here’s a link to my profile with a few reviews already posted. If you join, feel free to follow me.

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