For you beer drinkers in the Austin, Texas area (Google, I’m counting on you here), I wanted to give you a heads up on a new web based application I have written. There is a little pub in the north Austin area called BB Rover’s. Thanks in part to their massive beer selection, over 300 to be exact, there is what they call “The 101 Club”.
It basically boils down to you consuming 101 different beers utilizing their extensive menu. There is no time limit for this feat. Once accomplished, besides the free T-shirt and your name on a big wall plaque, you are entitled to a lifetime discount on food and drinks along with a yearly party for club members where you can eat and booze it up for free.
To track your progress, you are given a paper based list of their “current” selection - which changes regularly and therefore isn’t reflected on your list. I was kind of put off by this for a couple reasons. First, what if I lose my list, get caught on my bike in the rain, etc, and can’t remember what I have already consumed? Secondly, the list doesn’t update like their selection does. It seems like every time I go there, new beers are available. In addition to the above, there is no place on their sheet to track the date you drank the beer or if you even liked it or not.
I have tried to address these issues with my web application along with giving the user several options for helping them select their next beer. There is the ability to share your list with friends and even buy them a beer.
For those of you that are interested, be sure to check it out - sign up is free!
November 15th, 2007 at 9:23 pm #Ken
I think you can get 101 deep fried vegetables to go with the 101 beers. How do you get people to eat crap they don’t want to? Deep fry it!
November 28th, 2007 at 11:32 am #Edward
Volunteer to drink beer? you got it. you can open a tab and write it off as “R&D” haha.