Technical Development Information


Here you will find ideas, concepts, future upgrades, and proposals that apply to the technical, architectural, visual, performance, and navigational aspects of this website's infrastructure. We have a lot of awesome ideas that come to our heads all the time, and you'll find them in the pipeline below. But, if our brilliant minds have forgotten something, or you think that you have a great idea that you think would improve this website, let us know! Good happens... great takes a little more. And we're putting everything we find/come up with on this page so that we can refer to it when the moment is right. Think of this as a trustworthy notebook that you keep to jot down your thoughts. Sure, some ideas may be a bit more crazy or ambitious than others, but the only unfortunate idea is the good one that's forgotten.

Mobile website/Android/iPhone app

  • Full, interactive development
  • Log in with location, beer, review/rating, pictures
  • Check into events, venues based on location
  • Photo identify: use camera to take a picture of a logo, bottle, or barcode to identify a beer in our database
  • Recommendations based on historical and recent beer check-ins and corresponding ratings
  • Full access to user accounts and communities on app
  • Online Beer Database

  • Sortable HTML
  • Search function with instant results
  • Includes content from Excel sheet
  • IBU, color specs included
  • Beers' characteristics quantified on a matrix set by aspects of feel, look, taste, aroma, and overall rating on a 1-5 scale (see below); this data is used in both a filterable search and the beer matchmaker
  • Sort/search/filter by style, rating, abv, brewery country of origin
  • Online Brewery Database

  • Search/Sort/Filter by category and location
  • Timeline by establish date
  • Interactive map of global brewery locations
  • Navigate by name, category, location, date established, average rating of products
  • Upgrades to Brewery Pages

  • Average ratings
  • Updated addresses/multiple addresses for multi-facility
  • Contact info including phone and e-mail
  • Direct link to website URL
  • User Accounts and Content

  • Create account with protected login
  • Link account with Facebook, twitter, etc.
  • Profile with basic information, comments history, reputation
  • Upload content including pictures, videos, and reviews
  • Reviews based on similar model, taste, feel, aroma, appearance, and overall
  • Info including pictures/videos, dates, locations, applicable history and user stories
  • Online community including profile search, database, location, interests, favorite beers, reputation
  • Messenger, e-mail, comments, Up/Down rate
  • Custom Dynamic Database Search

  • Instant search results including drop down recent/predictable search
  • Filter results by beer characteristics matrix (slider 1-5 on aspects of look, color, feel, aroma, and overall rating) (see below)
  • Results include logo/picture, location, category for breweries; style, rating, picture, abv, and link to brewery or review for beers
  • Filterable by usual data input variables
  • Affiliated Sponsorships

  • Contact Company/Brewery
  • Inquire about traffic, leads, clicks
  • Official logos, branding
  • Sales and Merch
  • Updated contact info
  • Home Brewing Section

  • General education center
  • User recipe submissions
  • Tasting events
  • Community/Forum
  • Upgraded Visuals and Appearance

  • Flash, live content
  • Better overall feel and appearance
  • Better general flow
  • Upgraded Navigation

  • Easier nav
  • Drop down/hover menus
  • More accesibility
  • General Initiatives

  • Newsletter and e-mail lists
  • An events and news section
  • Interactive calendar with attendable, commentable events for community members
  • YouTube Channel
  • Facebook focus - more members
  • Affiliate Links and Info
  • Full Social Media Updates
  • Instagram Updates
  • Activate RSS Feed
  • Twitter Feed





  • Character Profile Matrix Variables

  • Look - Color, Carbonation Action, Foam Head, Lacing, Clarity/Haziness or Cloudiness, Smooth/Choppy Pour
  • Aroma - Maltiness, Hoppiness, Prominence, Clove, Banana, Appropriateness, Alcohol, Caramel, Citrus, Fruity, Nutty
  • Feel - Weight, Body, Viscosity, Finish, Dry/Wet, Carbonation, Grittiness/Sediment, Warming, Refreshing, Cooling, Crisp, Dull, Smoothness
  • Taste - Sweet, Bitter, Biscuit, Caramel, Banana, Clove, Coriander, Citrus, Fruity, Nutty Sour, Malt, Hops, Aftertaste, Prominence, Consistency, Appropriateness, Alcohol Presence
  • Overall - Overall Experience, Food Pairings, Seasons, Traditional vs Alternative


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