BeerAdvocate is a site where many start their online beer odyssey. Perhaps for some it’s RateBeer. I started on BA a number of years ago and was never really drawn into the so-called “community” although there is still a wealth of information there, especially for the newbie. Over the years, dickish and inept management really eroded what the site once was but as the former owner of a large community I can say with confidence that “the way things used to be” is something that was simply outgrown with the influx of new members and unceremonious purging of established ones. No doubt a process hastened by the inconsistent control-freakery of a certain administrator.
I like to keep the New England section bookmarked and click to it with some regularity to keep an eye on the happenings there. The same topics are repeated for the most part, not the least of which is seemingly a thread every other day about Hill Farmstead but today’s was different. This is not your typical sycophantic fanboy Hill Farmstead post.
