alternatives to Beer Advocate?

[cellio]

For the past few years I've used Beer Advocate, and specifically its rating system, to keep track of beers I've sampled. I am not an expert; one number for an overall rating is just my speed. I'm not interested in breaking that down by look, smell, mouth feel, and so on. (Frankly, I don't care what it looks like anyway, only how it tastes.)

They've now changed their system to take away that one-number rating, requiring breakdowns. I can just use the same number for all of them, but that's hacky and more work, especially if I decide to change a rating later. (I suppose it could be userscripted.)

The value of a site like Beer Advocate, rather than just keeping a file, is having access to the descriptions (including categories like "winter warmer" and "amber ale" and suchlike), other items from those breweries, and, out of curiosity, the variance between my rating and the average for people who rated that beer. Also, I want to be able to see and add ratings from multiple locations, so if I just used a file it would have to live in the cloud I guess.

An Android app would be an acceptable alternative, if one exists.

Any suggestions?

(And yes, I would have left this feedback for Beer Advocate if there were any visible means of doing so. Apparently I haven't contributed enough to the site to be allowed to comment.)

Comments

[talvinm.livejournal.com]

I have nothing to offer regarding sites where you might rate beers, nor any apps that do same.

But you might enjoy dewhitton's long-running series of posts "Around the World in 80 Beers", and as you will see, he's just a few shy of getting around the world twice.

http://dewhitton.livejournal.com/tag/beer

[mikekn]

I use Untappd for keeping track and rating beers I try. They only support a five start rating system (with half stars).