All posts tagged Website Features

  • Free Beer. Really.
    2011/06/01, 9 Comments

    It’s a simple idea and a simple process, so I won’t water it down with dramatic prose: Rate 20 or more beers, and automatically be entered to win a $15 gift certificate from Belmont Station.  We’ll be giving away at least ...

  • Portlandbeer.org Website Updates: Better Than Beer?
    2011/05/16, No comments

    Ok, the updates aren’t better than beer, but don’t leave just yet.  We’ve made some big improvements to help you find beers by styles, breweries, and top rated beers. First of all, we’ve expanded the functionality ...

  • The Beer Finder
    2009/12/17, No comments

    During our recent site updates, I rewrote some of the code in the Beer Finder’s “Similar Beers” engine to spit out more accurate results.  It ain’t perfect, but it does a good job of leading you down the right path. ...

  • Portland, We *had* a Problem
    2009/11/19, No comments

    Well, in my haste to push out only lightly-tested code, some things broke without me knowing about it.   In an effort to get some beta testers of our new beer rating system, I wrote a quick article hoping to attract a few people.  “ ...

  • Rating Beer at portlandbeer.org
    2009/11/15, 1 Comment

    Beer Ratings System. In order to personalize your experience at our site, we’re investigating the world of beer rating.  There are plenty of sites that let you review and rate beer, but we want to do something a little different.  M ...

  • Portlandbeer.org: Past, Present, and Future
    2009/11/04, No comments

    A notebook, a list, and a couple of beers. Five years ago, this site started out as an idea on a napkin. We’ve gone from tracking a few beer releases between friends in town, to serving over 150,000 pages each year to users all over t ...

  • Portlandbeer.org Relaunch
    2009/11/01, No comments

    Over the years, we’ve had to make our website has bigger, better, faster, and stronger. This is because the owners have become older, slower, and lazier–and something had to make up for that! We’ll talk about some of the n ...

  • Find Beers Like This One!
    2008/11/24, No comments

    Many of you have asked for this feature, so here it is. For lack of a better name, we’ll call it the “Find beers like this one” tool. I know it doesn’t really roll off the tongue, but what’s in a name anyway? I ...

  • Portlandbeer.org’s New Beer Finder
    2008/10/13, 3 Comments

    Sure, we drink a lot of beer, but that’s not all we do. We also do some work. It is our ultimate goal to make sure that you can find the beer you’re looking for in Portland. We’ve already got customizable lists, beer and s ...

  • Portland Beer Tools
    2008/03/23, No comments

    Helping you find your perfect beer! After the redesign of our site, we want to make sure that people are checking out the other areas of our site, and not just the wonderful blog area. Of course, in the blog section, you can find articles, ...