Welcome!
If this is your first time visiting The Beer Mapping Project, you may want to check out our city beer maps or international brewery maps. Or if you know the name of the beer related location or city that you are searching for, you can do that on our search page. If you have questions, you can contact us or ask in the forums.
Introducing New Map Navigation
July 25th, 2010 - No Comments
We’ve done a small revamp on our maps over the past week; changing the way they look and altering some of the ways that you may use the maps. We have tried our best to only add features and not remove any that you might be already used to. It may take you a few map viewings to get used to the changes but we feel that you will enjoy the maps more after seeing what we have made available.
First off, the maps now have a nice blue top navigation bar. This navigation takes the place of the floating “main menu” from the older version of the maps. You’ll see that we’ve added the location lookup on the far right of the screen and we have more space up there to add more links to important parts of the site.
Map Legend
In the top left, you’ll see our logo and the hideable legend should appear pretty much like it used to. You can still click the “x” to hide and you can click the names/pins in the legend to hide specific types of locations.
City Map Selection
When looking for a city map, you’ll realize that they are now grouped by regions and hovering over a region will produce a flyout dropdown allowing you to select the city you are interested in.
Registered User Functions
People viewing the maps that are not registered and logged into the site will often get a reduced number of features. If in the top right you see the “login/register” links, this means you are not logged in. Click the links to do so.
When you are logged in, on many of our maps (City Maps and Proximity Maps) you will get extra links via little green and red colored buttons that will allow you to only see locations you have reviewed or locations you haven’t reviewed on a certain map. These links will allow you to plot the next location you may want to visit or help to find a location that you may have forgotten to review.
Toggles and Traffic
Note: If you are looking for the toggles to turn on or off the location list or the legend, those are up in the top right under the map selectors (view image above). We have also added the “traffic” layer to many of the maps, allowing you to plan your trips a bit better.
We hope you enjoy these new features and the new styling of the maps. Please let us know what you think by leaving a comment here or by posting in the forums (or replying to us on twitter @beermapping).
Updated Mobile Applications Page
July 20th, 2010 - 4 Comments
We’ve updated the applications page here at Beer Mapping to inform people of the current mobile apps using our API. Currently Beer Mapping does not have an official application for any device.
All applications are developed by third party developers and the apps listed here are built off of Beer Mapping’s Application Programming Interface (API). This means that if you decide to purchase one of these apps, you are giving money to the third party developer and your money is not going to Beer Mapping. These developers spent time creating these apps and in most cases the applications are priced at an extremely reasonable fee.
Check it out at beermapping.com/apps.
Chicago Rare Beer Night!
May 17th, 2010 - No Comments
Beer Mapping and Hop Cast have joined forces to present this awesome event at Small Bar Fullerton. There will be barrels of rare beer poured as well as a couple of firkins sitting on the bar. Our goal was to get local breweries to bring us something that is rarely seen on tap.
We hope to see you there! Wear your Beer Mapping t-shirt (or make you own!) and we’ll buy you a pint!
Google sees our reviews!
April 2nd, 2010 - No Comments
Ok, we’ve been showing up on Google search results for locations and other things for a while now. That isn’t big news. We’ve been the top result for US Breweries since sometime in 2006. Cool, but not really that helpful for bringing new eyes to the site.
Well, the big news today is that we now appear to be showing up in the “reviews” section for some beer locations when people are searching Google Maps. In our opinion, this is a pretty big deal.
As you can see from the image above (click image to see live google result page), they are pulling contents from one of our reviews for the location and displaying it for people searching for that location. We’re sharing this honor with other sites like Citysearch, Metromix, Urbanspoon, Insiderpages and Google’s own in house review system.
We’re excited about this and will probably be searching google all day looking for new examples! Please let us know in the comments if you find any!
Site Issues
February 20th, 2010 - No Comments
We’re currently suffering from some site redirect issues due to server errors.
We are working on the problems and we hope to have the server back up and running the way it is supposed to very soon. Many links on the site will not work, the forums seem to be cooperating properly, but Location Lookup and many other important functions are broken at this time.
Thanks for your patience.
Find Craft Beer with your iPhone
November 24th, 2009 - 15 Comments
Beer Mapping member SiB57 has created an iPhone application that will help you Find Craft Beer.
Check out the official site for the Find Craft Beer application at findcraftbeer.com
This application uses the Beer Mapping API to find Breweries, Brewpubs, Beer Bars, Stores or Homebrew Shops near your current location. The app displays review scores from Beer Mapping and includes links to the mobile version of our site, in case you wish to read more reviews for a specific location. Click the image below to see more screenshots of the application in action.
The Find Craft Beer application will also enable you to use a city or zip code as the starting point for a search, using options to narrow down results by location type.
This application is available in the App Store now. Go get it and let us know what you think!
Go Beer! Go Mobile!
October 13th, 2009 - 3 Comments
Google has declared this week to be a week where they dedicate time and energy to educating people about the mobile functions and features that they offer. We here at Beer Mapping have also put a lot of effort into giving our users tools to use while on the go. So we thought we could spend a few minutes educating or reminding you about what we have available on the mobile side of things.
We have a full fledged mobile site (beermapping.com/m) with search, forums, reviews and even proximity functions available. And our system also works with all recent versions of google’s mobile mapping software. If this interests you, check out our Mobile Functions page.
Here is what we have to say about our mobile functionality on our tools and applications page:
Mobile Functionality
The Mobile Lookup page is simply a scaled down version of our regular location search functionality here on the main site. We’ve set up our Mobile Lookup page to be a very easy to remember url:
http://beermapping.com/m (the M is for mobile).We also have set up some Mobile Map functionality that is now linked from the Mobile Maps Lookup page. You can read more about the Mobile Map functions click the following link:
Mobile Maps and ApplicationsReviews, score breakdowns, weather, traffic and maps are all available through the beermapping.com/m url. We’ve even included a tiny version of the regular forums as well if you like to participate in discussions while on the go. As far as we are aware, there isn’t a beer based website around that is providing the level of mobile functionality that The Beer Mapping Project is giving you. Recently we’ve also integrated Twitter into our mobile application.
If you have any ideas about how we can better help flesh our our mobile interfaces, please let us know in the comments. We know that many of you will mention or ask about iPhone apps or applications for other platforms. Well, there are some applications under development for iPhone, Android and possibly Blackberry. The only one that we have been working on in-house is the Android application. You can watch a teaser video of it here.
Note: Even though our beers are mobile, we would still like for you to be responsible and avoid drinking and driving. We encourage our users to add any public transportation options to their reviews and if there is no public transportation readily available, please find a designated driver.
12 Sexy Ways to Achieve Satisfaction when Beer Mapping
July 20th, 2009 - 10 Comments
Beer Mapping got a mention in the August 2009 issue of Cosmopolitan Magazine! We’ve taken a few small pictures of the article (entitled “12 Sexy, Totally Free Dates”), but if you would like to read more; this issue is currently on the newsstands. As you can see from the picture, we are mentioned on page 120.
We would like to thank the author of the article, Molly Triffin, for including us. In honor of this article, we would also like to make a list of 12 Sexy Ways to use Beer Mapping!
12 Sexy Ways to use Beer Mapping
- Use our Location Lookup Page
- Bookmark our Mobile Site on your Phone (beermapping.com/m)
- Participate in our Forums
- Search the Maps by an Address
- Use our Proximity Maps
- Subscribe to our GPS Point of Information System
- Add the Location of the Day gadget to your Google Homepage
- Play the GABF Fantasy Draught (Late Aug/Early Sept)
- Put a “Recent Reviews Map” on your Google Homepage
- Build your own tools around the Beer Mapping API
- Use our Beer Event Calendar
- Add an Information Widget to your Blog
Here is the cover and a fuzzy picture of the article:
Favorite Brewpub Chain Poll Results
June 29th, 2009 - 7 Comments
You came, you saw and you seem to have voted. The Rock Bottom Restaurant and Brewery chain was the winner of our little informal poll. With 18% of the votes, they easily defeated the second place spot which was shared by Pizza Port and McMenamins.
Below are the rest of the top ten spots in the poll.
- Rock Bottom Restaurant and Brewery | 43 Votes | 18%
- Pizza Port Brewing Company | 29 Votes | 12%
- McMenamins | 29 Votes | 12%
- Iron Hill Brewery | 24 Votes | 10%
- Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurants | 17 Votes | 7%
- Great Dane Pub | 16 Votes | 7%
- Elysian Brewing | 16 Votes | 7%
- BJ’s Restaurant and Brewery | 16 Votes | 7%
- Capitol City Brewing Company | 9 Votes | 4%
- John Harvard’s Brew House | 9 Votes | 4%
Your Favorite Brewpub Chain?
June 17th, 2009 - 2 Comments
The Beer Mapping Project wants to know what your favorite Brewpub chain is? Scroll down to vote in the poll for your favorite.
We’re using a fairly loose definition of a Chain Brewpub. We decided that the locations all need to have brewing equipment and a Brewpub Chain needs to have 3 or more locations in order to make our poll. Wikipedia’s definition of a chain store is:
“Chain stores are retail outlets that share a brand and central management, and usually have standardized business methods and practices. These characteristics also apply to chain restaurants and some service-oriented chain businesses.”
They don’t actually state a number, but we decided that if you have three or more brewing pub/restaurant locations under the same name or branding then we could classify them as a chain of brewpubs.
Anyway, enough with the fine print… Vote! (names in poll are randomly assigned)
This Poll has closed!
If your favorite Brewpub Chain got left off the list please post in the comments. If you want to see how we came up with this list, read this forums thread.
