The end of the road...
Dear Citizens,
Over six years ago, the three of us were having some beers, and hatching some ideas. We love data. We love beer. We love people. At that intersection landed the notion that beer reviews could be much more than a tick or a rating or a blog post. That if we could harness the qualities of a beer as data, it would help people find better beer, and help beer enthusiasts recall exactly what they liked. That idea turned into Beer Citizen, and we couldn't be prouder of all it became.
Each one of you reading this has been instrumental in this adventure. You believed in our idea, and we believed in you. You helped grow this community to amazing numbers of people (and beers/breweries!). We'll never be able to thank you enough for sharing your ideas, efforts, stories, beer, data, and so much more with us. It's no understatement that Beer Citizen would be nothing without each and every one of you.
As much as it pains us, life moves on, and so must we. Much has changed in our lives/careers, technology, the beer app landscape... heck, even beer has profoundly changed. All this has made it increasingly clear that Beer Citizen has run its course. Between the costs to host the site, and the increasing efforts required to develop, and market the site/apps, we have decided it's time to turn off the lights and call it a day. The site and apps will be shut down on December 31st, 2017.
We know all too well how much work you've put into your reviews, we want to give you the ability to export a CSV file of your beer reviews here. Note that this works best with desktop browsers. We wish there were more we could do to thank you for all you've done to in helping us build Beer Citizen.
Your friends in beer,
Rob, Ryan, and Evan