Great American Beer Fest 2010: Putting Some Programmer/Journalist Skillz to Work

There are about 2,200 beers at the Great American Beer Festival.
From 488 breweries.
You have 3 days (2 for some of us) to try them, 1 ounce at a time...

Obviously that's more beer than a human can drink. So @dingaaar, @AdrienneSaia, @progjourno, and @jordanwb (that's me) picked out some favorites (and would be favorites) we're dying to try this weekend.

Behold, the birth of the GABF 2010 Beer Wish List.

To organize all this info (the beers we want to try, the breweries at GABF, and our ratings of the beers) I've been wrangling some Google Spreadsheets.

You can view them straight up via Google (this works best):

• Beer Scorecard -- Feel free to add your own ratings here
• Beer Ratings (compiled live from the scorecard)
• Beer Wish List

Or you can view them on our blog (doesn't look as nice, drat):

• Beer Scorecard
• Beer Ratings (compiled live from the scorecard)
• Beer Wish List

This is my first experiment with real-time data collection on the Android platform. (It might have been better to build an app for this, but hey, I just started this morning.) I hope I don't spill beer all over phone and destroy it...if that happens, there's always the old reliable pen and paper.

Happy imbibing.

Great American Beer Fest 2010: Beer Wish List

The list below is adapted from a Google spreadsheet of the breweries attending the GABF. We've added some additional information (links to the breweries, the particular beers we want to try, etc.). To sort for the beers on our Beer Wish List, click "Y" in the first drop down menu. (Complicated, I know. There's probably a way to implant this setting, but hey, I have to be drinking beer in a few short hours.) You can also sort by region, or any of the other column headings.

Cheers.

Great American Beer Fest 2010: Live Updates of Beer Ratings

Great American Beer Fest 2010: Beer Scorecard