Wikipedia:WikiProject Beer
- "Beer is proof that God loves us, and wants us to be happy." – Benjamin Franklin
Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to beer. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there, or just dig in and start editing.

Title
WikiProject on Beer
Scope
This WikiProject aims to compile thorough and accurate information on different breweries and varieties of beer, including but not limited to their qualities, origins, and uses.
Parentage
The parent of this WikiProject is Wikipedia:WikiProject Food and Drink
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Participants
- Daniel11
- ClockworkSoul 14:16, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC) – Finally, my life's purpose is being realized...
- Gentgeen - I might not like beer, but I can help standardize articles about it.
- Glamour Boy - I'm here to expand the knowledge of Canadian beer one way or another.. even if I have to recite Bob & Doug McKenzie quotes!
- 3mta3 - I'll do my bit to expand the world's knowledge about beer from Australia.
- User:Sean Kelly - help promote Portland as the beer capital
User:henna- Too much other work at the moment- Hooloovoo I'll focus on Dutch & Flemish breweries and beers (the ones I'm most familiar with).

- BaronLarf I'll focus on current and historic Wisconsin (home of the Milwaukee Brewers!) beers
- King Dedede - I'll help as best as I can. Cheers!
- Abek - I wrote most of the brewery article, so I am a member!
- pypex - I'll endeavor to drink more beer for wikipedia's sake
- I will try to be here to add Mild --130.36.62.126 11:48, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
- Daniel Smith - I'm adding pages about English Breweries.
- Rich Kaszeta - Seeing that I already read many of the pages, I'll help out where I can, primarily with small US breweries and homebrew topics. -- Kaszeta 15:44, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
- Ojw/Beer, from England
- Dewet, from South Africa
- Benzamin, I call Hoboken, NJ home, and I'll pitch in where I can...
- Katefan0 Oh my lord, I can't believe I only just found this project. I'm from Texas originally, but live now in DC. · Katefan0(scribble) 23:37, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)
- Angelo I love beer, you know... I may help you for major European and Canadian beers.
- WikiWarrior -- An avid homebrewer and employee of a major world brewer.
- Friday Mmm, beer.
- Hekaz, from New Zealand
- Allegrorondo, avid homebrewer. I'd like to help out with beer styles.
- Alejo2083, from Italy.
You can call me Al Recently the resident beer expert at ODP, avid beer drinker, some-time homebrewer.Love the project, just have too much going on.- Roderick Hodgson Bringing you info on the (unfairly unpopular) maltese beers and breweries (hopefully).
- Judzillah From Boston, MA. I'll help as best I can!
- Holger From Australia - a worthwhile subject if ever I saw one!
- kaleissin, who lives in cheap, flat, boring Pilsener country...
- Nicooosthuizen, Pretoria, South Africa. And there I thought it was wrong to love beer as much as I do...
- OwenX from Canada. Not a beer expert, but will concentrate on the business aspects.
- --Apyule. I'll try to help whenever I'm sober.
- LoopZilla 08:29:25, 2005-09-01 (UTC) Interested in beer and pubs.
- Hungarian83 Hungarian beers...and maybe Slovak beers as well.
- Deanos, did someone say beer?
- Feebtlas UK Beer fan with a special interest in beer history. Favourite styles include lambic and strong Belgians.
- Dforest I love beer, you love beer, we all love beer!
- ALKIVAR™
i'm here, where's the free beer?
- Ξxtreme Unction at your service. Beer geek, sometime homebrewer, creator of Charlie Papazian, extensive revisor of Smoked beer and Adjunct (beer), and frequent editor of Beer. Glad to be aboard.
- Kbdank71 Owner, editor, and contributor to tobp.com, a beer review website. I'll help out here when I can.
- ApolloCreed -- mmmm... beer...
- Holypeanut Beer lover and CAMRA member from Essex, UK. Looking to get some of those UK breweries recognised!
- User:Boothy443 - beeeerrrrrr.
- Stlemur
- couchand Beer geek and homebrewer. Hope to update Iowa and Midwest brewery articles.
- Movementarian Beer consumer. Finally a worthwhile Wikiproject
- Agnte Proud Member.
- Elnuko Pub resident
- Kev (talk) - Just updated Great British Beer Festival and Champion Beer Of Britain. Will do more if I can!
Angelbo Beer drinker and geek, gonna share my knowledge of Danish beers and breweries.gone on wiki breake, do to real life work and study.- wasbeer84; Always thirsty
- Miwa Count me in!
- TheMightyGrecian I agree with Ben Franklin. I'll do my part.
- Riflemann Belgian beer enthusiast, working on Trappist beers.
- CKA3KA (Skazka) Homebrewer and beer enthusiast. I hope to graduate to the level of full-fledged beer geek—with the help of the other members of this project. I have a particular interest in Belgian styles, but that interest is by no means exclusive.
- Gryffindor Don't know a terrible lot, but can add some stuff. Kampai!
- Svartalf Euro amateur of malt brew, with a yen for the German style of drink and that compulsive scholarly streak.
- SilkTork SilkTork 23:49, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
- Mike McGregor (Can) I think I'm gonna work on expanding some Canadian-brewery articles... I'll have to get crack a couple beers and research this till I can't type no more...
- Obin_3391 - I am here to focus on Philippine beers and breweries. Actually, there are only two breweries here.
- feydey Beer is a malt drink... i'll write something
- User:jordanmills Homebrewer and lover of all things malt. I'll add what I can.
- Radagast83 09:08, 6 February 2006 (UTC) Love beer and love Wikipedia, so I decided to combine the two! (not at the same time)
- Manchiu 20:23, 8 February 2006 (UTC) Excellent way to become familiar with Wikipedia - a topic I'm passionate about!
- Slippy007 I've already added a couple of the beers to the list of beers, however oddly a couple of them had to be readded many months later when I came back to check on the page.
- IEdML - Craft beer enthusiast; avid Wikipedia reader and occasional contributor.
- Waitak 08:43, 6 March 2006 (UTC) Belgian beer fan
- Naerhu 05:47, 14 March 2006 (UTC) avid saison drinker, with a growing antipathy for people who are too excited about deleting wiki articles.
- Throughthelens 21:41 MST 15 March 2006. Beer snob extraordinaire, will be doing much with my native beers of Colorado.
- Aguerriero 02:36, 21 March 2006 (UTC). I'm in - have a lot of information on small breweries in Michigan, including Frankenmuth where I grew up.
- Quarkstorm 12:47, 21 March 2006 (UTC) Beer fan, just about to attempt my first homebrew. Plan to do some work relating to the three microbreweries in Northern Ireland; Hilden, Whitewater and Strangford Lough.
- Frank Avid homebrewer and amateur taster.
I will mostly just be trying to root out errors and making tiny changes of phrasing.Apparently, I'm rewriting a lot of the beer style articles. I swear it's not what I set out to do! - PJRecent homebrewer, avid beer drinker. Extensive experience in VT and CO, so I'm all about the microbrews. Also hopefully soon opening up my own microbrew.
- Leppy I've sampled them on 3 continents, and guess right now can provide the limited Atlanta beerinfo.
- Tyreal I've done a little homebrewing and look forward to contributing to some articles about local brewers (MA)
- JerryOrr - I love beer, and I'm familiar with some of the Pennsylvania breweries, so I'd love to contribute!
- Шизомби 21:44, 24 April 2006 (UTC) Beer snob, and had a failed attempt at homebrewing root beer... but I will try again!
- Rimbaud Professional brewer and coneisseur of great beer, (and even some cheap ones).
- Brownings - Mmmmmmm....beer! Lover of everything File:Shiner logo.jpg & avid Pearl Beer history buff.
- Nis_pero Homebrewer and looking to apply at Heriot-Watt. Gave up on the Beer Wikia. 03:44, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
- CastAStone - Active on BA, i think i can help here.
- Dave - Want to try & get pages on Dublin microbreweries sorted, will start after exams!
- RPaleja - Here to add information on Canadian beers, especially the best one (that still needs a comprehensive article), Cheetah Beer.
- Mingus ah um--here to represent for the Pacific Northwest.
- ExpatPaul - This looks like a project worth signing up for. Hope I can help in some small way.
- Argyriou - I've added the article on Mendocino Brewing Company. I may not do much more anytime soon, unless I'm particularly inspired.
- Airgead - I'll do some work on the Australian beers.
- User:Bask
- pleia2 - From Schwenksville,_Pennsylvania I can add and update pages about Eastern PA breweries
- ColBog
- OzLawyer
- Pumbaa86 - Here to dispel the myth that Australian's drink Fosters
- Lord Flashheart - Native from Belgian and avid beer lover.
- Snakemike - New wikipedian from Switzerland, big fan of Unser Bier
- Awiseman 05:37, 10 July 2006 (UTC) - I love beer! I'll be doing various American breweries and beers
- Somnabot 23:32, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
Goals
- Agree and formulate criteria for notability of breweries.
- Catalogue all the notable breweries: List of breweries.
- Organize and categorize all known styles of beer, and write decent articles on them.
- (Eventually) catalogue notable beers.
- Add other essential beer-related knowledge to Wikipedia.
- e.g., more detailed info on beer and nationality.
- Get beer to a FA status
Articles in need of editing or creation
- American beer
- Beer garden needs a lot of work
- Beer style
- Canadian beer
- Cream ale
- Spiced beers - some expantion and info on avalible spiced beers would be nice?
- Winter ale, Winter warmer
- Cheetah Beer
- Bavaria S.A. - needs to be expanded.
- Jack McAuliffe's New Albion Brewing Company
General strategy and discussion forums
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Beer/General
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Beer/Strategy
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Beer/Examples - Use this to test or demonstrate anything you're working on.
Infoboxes
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Active beers
Bass Export
English pale ale
Bass Pale Ale
English pale ale
No. 1
English barley wine
Our Finest Ale
English pale ale
Worthington 1744
English pale ale
Worthington Creamflow Bitter
English bitter
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This is the "brewery brewbox", an infobox used to summarize and standardize the information for a particular brewery.
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Template:Beerbox abv
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This is the "beer beerbox", an infobox used to summarize and standardize the information for a particular beer.
Templates
What to type | What it makes | What it's for | ||||||||||||
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{{Beer-stub}} Talk |
The official beer stub for beer or brewery-related articles. | |||||||||||||
{{Beer}} Talk |
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The project notice, designed to be placed in the talk page of any article that has been edited as part of this WikiProject. | ||||||||||||
{{Beer-project-member}} Talk |
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To be used in your user page, to show you joined the project. | ||||||||||||
{{User beer}} Talk |
Template:User beer | Displays your partiality to beer. | ||||||||||||
{{User homebrewer}} Talk |
Template:User homebrewer | Displays your homebrewing hobby! | ||||||||||||
{{BeerAdvocate-beer}} Template talk:BeerAdvocate-beer |
Template:BeerAdvocate-beer | Quick link to a beer's page on [beeradvocate.com] for article external links | ||||||||||||
{{BeerAdvocate-brewery}} Template talk:BeerAdvocate-brewery |
Template:BeerAdvocate-brewery | Quick link to a brewery's page on [beeradvocate.com] for article external links |