We've had posts about ratebeer before, I'm sure but this is more a way of drumming up support for Irish beer in particular.
We have a small but active population of irish raters on ratebeer and we do our best to get our beers noticed but a number of beers don't even hit the !10 rate minimum" to be eligible fo rrankings. I want the world to know that we have great beer now here in Ireland, we can't be selfish and keep it to ourselves!
Galway Bay won best Irish Brewer on ratebeer last year, and JW Sweetman the year before, but this is as much down to number of rates as beer quality.
I'd love a lot of Beoir members to sign up and review beers and particularly places to give visitors an up to date resource when visiting us. I know a lot of you write tasting notes; could you sign up and add them?
I find ratebeer is a great way to review my year's consumption for end of year award giving and I've found a real community of friends through it, including some who have helped me get hold of beers I otherwise wouldn't have.
So even if you don't go in for assigning numbers to beers; I hope you can see the benefit a site like ratebeer brings in raising the profile of Irish brewing on the world stage
Please?
NB for full disclosure I'm the Ireland (and a UK) admin on RateBeer, under Beersiveknown...look me up if you do join
Cheers!
