drinking 2.0

Posted on | August 17, 2006 | No Comments

to no surprise, tech-geeks enjoy a drink after office-hours like anyone else does (maybe even more?). weither your’re into beer, wine or stronger stuff – the new, social web has got something to match your taste…

cork’d.com is a free service aimed at wine-lovers. users catalog, rate, tag and review wines they’ve tried out. on the social side, ‘Drinking Buddies’, sharing a similar taste in wine, allow the discovery of new brands and flavours. cork’d.com is well designed and includes everything you’ld expect a web2.0-site to offer, from tagclouds to rss-feeds. a possible improvement would be allowing users to upload bottle-labels. [if you're interested in cork'd, thinkvitamin has recently published an (audio-)interview with co-founder Dan Cederholm]

if you’re more into beer, ratebeer.com is probably your drinking-site of choice. ratebeer’s database contains information on 30.000 (!) unique beverages, more than 4.000 breweries, several hundredthousand ratings & reviews and a worldwide schedule for beer-related events (in case you’re in Belgrade tomorrow, check out the Belgrade Beer Fest). an extensive user-forum and weekly articles on beer-culture make ratebeer most definitely the best web-ressource on beer – though the site’s design could use some makeover.

don’t know what kind of drink to squeeze out of your home-bar? after telling Extratasty what ingridents are available, the site offers a list of possible recipes. recipes can be rated, commented and easily linked in your blog (if you’re still able to blog, that is). Extratasty includes features to network with other drinkers and allows mobile access using your mobilephone or any iPod as recipe-scrapbook. the site’s light design matches its name – extra tasty!

 

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