Celebrating milestones

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Message slowrunner77 beers 19964 º places 499 º 18:52 Sun 1/8/2017 If you use both... Do you celebrate untappd milestones as well as ratebeer? Seems to me like a good excuse to break out the good stuff. Really my only complaint about ratebeer is the number of beers aliased that are different. There’s no perfect system, but when you add vintages of yearly beers (most of which have yearly tweaks) - and casks & dry hopped treatments my untappd number is 25-30% higher than my ratebeer number. And probably the more accurate of the two. There’s lots of gratuitous "vintages" on untappd, but I avoid those. I’ve also been told they are in the process of deleting vintages unless the package is labeled with the year (not sure how that applies to tap only beers).
Message rennat42 P beers 5357 º places 205 º 19:39 Sun 1/8/2017 I usually try to have some really good every 100 rates and something really special every 1,000. I only use Untappd for backup purposes and actually have more rates on here due to sakes and whatnot.
Message Travlr beers 33887 º places 4583 º 19:44 Sun 1/8/2017 Other than 10k, I haven’t done or drank anything special at milestones. I use Untappd now when I’m mobile since live rating on RateBeer has had its challenges. I continue to be amazed that I get 1-3 new badges with about every other rating. I don’t really pay attention to vintages. All beer recipes tend to evolve over time. I’ll re-rate a beer if my opinion of it has changed significantly.
Message DietPepsican P beers 1592 º places 63 º 19:46 Sun 1/8/2017 Stopped with milestones many years ago. Mainly celebrate good times with good people and break out whatever is cool at that time. Not saying people shouldn’t, but the less I care about beer the more I seem to be able to enjoy it.

Message SHIG P admin beers 13064 º places 502 º 20:26 Sun 1/8/2017 Saved a well aged PBR for 4K, since I just write reviews and add them when I can. 4K was always my goal when I started, so the rest is for fun.
Message ContemplateBeer beers 2092 º places 154 º 20:28 Sun 1/8/2017 Goodness. Do you manage to celebrate every new "badge"?
Message slowrunner77 beers 19964 º places 499 º 21:32 Sun 1/8/2017 Originally posted by ContemplateBeer Goodness. Do you manage to celebrate every new "badge"? I DID manage a "bar explorer" level up for checking in to my kid’s school with a beer, but no. No I do not. 2:00 in the boxfor being off topic.
Message bytemesis P beers 15314 º places 1595 º 21:45 Sun 1/8/2017 I am not untaped, so no.

Message Benzai beers 20020 º places 321 º 02:18 Mon 1/9/2017 Originally posted by slowrunner77 If you use both... Do you celebrate untappd milestones as well as ratebeer? Seems to me like a good excuse to break out the good stuff. Really my only complaint about ratebeer is the number of beers aliased that are different. There’s no perfect system, but when you add vintages of yearly beers (most of which have yearly tweaks) - and casks & dry hopped treatments my untappd number is 25-30% higher than my ratebeer number. And probably the more accurate of the two. I’ve got an account at Untappd because someone has asked me to review their homebrews, but otherwise I never use it. I’m glad that RB aliases yearly beers. Yearly tweaks are similar to minor batch variations imo, so they don’t warrant a seperate entry.
Message CH-303 P beers 4549 º places 137 º 02:20 Mon 1/9/2017 I try to break out a special one every 1000, for my rating #2000 I did Goose Island Bourbon County Stout .
Message ContemplateBeer beers 2092 º places 154 º 04:46 Mon 1/9/2017 Originally posted by slowrunner77 Originally posted by ContemplateBeer Goodness. Do you manage to celebrate every new "badge"? I DID manage a "bar explorer" level up for checking in to my kid’s school with a beer, but no. No I do not. 2:00 in the boxfor being off topic. Hah! My wife does untappd to keep track of her new ticks. 251 beers, 152 badges! It’s a bit much.