[ml-]

Still working on cataloging a curated list of craft beer venues across the world at https://wheretodrink.beer

Unsure what the plan is going forward with it, apart from adding more venues and more countries. As long as it's fun for me I'll just keep adding things.

Next addition will be to add health inspection data from countries that have that in open datasets or APIs, so if anyone know of that I'd be appreciative of hints (know of UK, Norway and might have found for France).

[kmoser]

Just checked out NYC and saw that most of the venues have abysmal ratings (e.g. 3.02/10). Am I reading the numbers wrong?

[ml-]

The number and the fire icons are popularity ratings, and shouldn't be expected to say a lot about quality. That value is derived from a set of automated signals that can be considered proxies for popularity. For most markets we typically see a couple of stand outs, and "the rest". One major flaw is also that we don't know venue capacity, so this probably does bias towards bigger venues

For NYC specifically it could be many factors playing in.. Perhaps we don't really have the right venues listed? Maybe the city favors small neighborhood bars over bigger destinations? etc..

I just recently added the number behind the icons, but one of my concerns was that it would then be interpreted as a review rating. Might re-consider the UX of this now. Thanks for feedback!

[osullivj]

Would be great to know which pubs have gluten free beer. I recently became gluten intolerant, and it's ended my 40 year beer career!

[ml-]

That sucks. I see the value in that, and I can add a tag for it. Imagine maintaining a consistent status for that automatically would be hard though. So the meaning of such a tag would likely become "They had at least one gluten free option at one time".

For venues publishing their drafts, cans or bottles publicly it could be possible to create some confidence interval if we scrape the data and keep history of it.

Thanks for checking it out and leaving a suggestion for improvement!

[deepvibrations]

They are becoming more common, as it's very simple to make them GF- you can simply add an enzyme that eats up the gluten. Bristol Beer Factory's whole range is GF and very tasty (my local brewery).