Hi! You can search for your friend by username or display name from the top search bar on the website, or from the home page search on the mobile app(s). When you search there, you’ll see results matching beers, breweries, and citizens. We hope this helps you find your friends.

For sharing beers, you can currently share beers on Facebook or Twitter. On the website, you’ll see the buttons near the top right of a beer profile page. On the mobile apps, you can click the starburst with the + sign at the top right of the beer profile screen to get to the sharing tools.

As for what the future holds, we definitely plan to expand the social side of things. Friend suggestions and in-app messaging/sharing are great ideas, and on our radar.

Please keep any suggestions and questions coming, and thanks for using Beer Citizen. Cheers!

Hi Marc-Andre. If you mean being able to view the beers you’ve reviewed in order by when you reviewed them, that’s on the way. We’ll soon be adding a feature to let you sort your reviews by a variety of filters, including date. Thanks, and cheers!

We trade beers fairly often around here, and certainly see the potential for this. We have a lot we’re working on involving the review data that’s coming in, but this feature is something we’ll consider on the longer-term roadmap. Cheers!

Agreed… this is on our to-do list.

Hi Melissa! Thanks for contacting us. The page ownershop and moderation tools you’re asking for are on our roadmap. In the meantime, we’ve made the corrections you’ve asked for, and you can already add more beers via the website or app. On the website, there’s an “add beer” button on the brewery page. On the mobile apps, you’ll find a link to add a beer by tapping the plus icon on the top right when looking at your brewery page. Again, thanks for reaching out, and let us know if there’s anything else we can do to help out. We hope to encounter some of your beers one day. Cheers!

Thanks for the feedback! A barcode scanner would indeed be awesome, and is on our wish list. There are some technical issues we’ll need to work out to make it happen, but it’s on the roadmap. That said, there are some other cool toys that we’ll be focusing on first, which we think you’ll dig. Glad you like the app, keep the feedback coming, and cheers!

Absolutely on the docket… at the very least we’ll be implementing a method for citizens to report errors or omissions for a beer, but there are a host of other content moderation tools on our roadmap. In the meantime, feel free to alert us to any errors or omissions through this feedback mechanism, or by email to support@beercitizen.com and we’ll be more than happy to make the edits for you. Cheers!

We certainly wish there was a way to do this quickly, but it’s a manual process, and a big undertaking for several thousand beers. As more citizens add photos for any given beer (which can be zoomed in on for clarity), it’s easier to see more details from more angles, see changes in label art that happen with brand redesigns, and more easily recognize the bottle itself, which is sometimes a distinguishing factor. All that said, we’re adding more and more label art whenever we find the time, ’cause we like it too. Cheers!

We’ve gotten to the point where there’s enough beer review data to start offering suggestions! Today we launched a new version of the iOS/Android apps and updated the site with a new similar beers finder. Now, when you look at a beer’s profile, you can click the Similar button. If there’s enough review data to pull from, the app will recommend other beers similar to that one that you may enjoy. Hope it helps you discover some great new beers. Cheers!

Hi Scott, thanks for contacting us! It’s an exciting idea, and we’re discussing how best to go about this. We’ll follow up by email soon to discuss some possibilities.

Hopefully one day we’ll be able do this, but coming up with data for which beers are available at which bar/retailer is a monumental task. Hopefully one day we can sort that out, but for now, we’re focusing on building new features using data from review like yours (which are great, by the way). Sorry for taking so long to officially reply to this, by the way, it slipped through the cracks ;)

This feature actually is available on the desktop website, but we agree it would be a useful feature on the mobile web and app verisons… we’ll work on finding an intuitive way to include such functionality.

Not many breweries provide this information, so we’re focusing on the more common stats (SBV, OG, SRM, FG), but we’ll look into it, and if the information is available for enough beers, we’ll certainly consider adding a field for it. Thanks!

We have some plans in the work for thins like this. It’s probably not our immediate priority (other new site features are taking the front seat, now that the iOS/Android apps are done), but we definitely want to start applying beer data in applications like this. Thanks!

We are working on a glossary section, which we’ll be using to define not only the suggested traits, but also many of the more common custom traits entered by citizens

We can see how this would save time, and just need to sort out a couple implementation quirks. For example, there are a handful of other countries that get picked often when adding breweries (Belgium and Germany come to mind) so it’s a matter of how popular a country should be to be in the short list at the top of the menu… maybe a top 5 or something. We hope to figure this out soon, as making things easy is a top goal for us.