I have been a user on here for 14.75 years (or so) & I was a lurker prior to that as I found the idea of reviewing & rating beers daunting. Doesn't help that it's just another thing that keeps people glued to their phones when they should just be enjoying beer and good company. There's an 'incentive' to just order a ton of flights and small pours just to check-in a lot and get more medals, 'Toasts' (Likes) and whatnot. My only real gripe about UT is that it fuels the FOMO in a lot of people. I've seen beers that are OK at best get consistent 4's and 5's. The fact is that UT has a pretty huge casual audience that might not have much experience (not that it's bad but it has an impact on how they might perceive sub-par stuff). I (generally) trust scores and reviews here more than I do the ones from UT. Honestly I just forget to 'Check-In' a lot of times so I'm barely on there.īA is more of a community that's a bit more involved and a knowledge repository.

So as long you keep that in mind (you're getting 140 character blurbs about a beer and scores are being swayed by a TON of people that might not know what they're talking about) it's OK to use. UT is basically social media with beer in it. I'm not even going to talk about RateBeer.

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