About
We love beer.
And we love our friends. We also love drinking and talking about beer with our friends. We created 97bottles.com because we know that:
friends + beer = good time.
97bottles is a free service that the good folks at Blue Flavor made. It lets you add, review, and learn new stuff about thousands of types of beers. Whether you're a microbrew or ultra light kind of person, we think 97bottles will increase your IQ and make you happier.
(Specific credits: Jeff Croft for front-end Web and Django development. Tom Watson for IA and Web design. Kevin Tamura for the icons, mobile and visual design. Tiff Jones for copy and lots of other things. Nick Finck for support, testing, etc. Kenny Meyers for development and backend support and Keith Robinson for the original idea, content and production.)
How to use 97 Bottles
You can do lots of cool things on 97 Bottles. Here's how to get started:
1 First, edit your profile
Tell us who you are, what you like, and where you live (we use location data to figure out what people in different parts of the world like to drink and make 97 Bottles better).
Then, really go to town:
2 Search for beers to add to your to-drink list or favorites
We recommend poking around the site to tag your favorite beers, generate a list of beers you'd like to review, and see what we have to offer.
3 Review beers
Tell us what you think and show us what you know. Be sure to include what kind of vessel you drank your beer out of (cup? bottle?) and where you drank it.
4 Add beers
If you've done some searching and can't find a particular beer on 97bottles.com, we'd love you to add it to our system. But please be careful, and accurate. Remembering to include the little details (like alcohol by volume and the brewery's own description of its beer) will make our data much cooler.
5 Find friends, etc.
Drinking's no fun without your friends around. Find people by typing their names into the search box in the "friends" section. If your friends aren't using 97 Bottles yet, invite them!
Cheers! - The Blue Flavor team