Wikipedia:WikiProject Beer

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WikiProject Beer

Shortcuts:	WP:BEER, WP:WPB
Portal:	Beer Portal
Wikimedia Commons:	Beer
Parent project:	Food and Drink
Project notice template:	{{Beer}}
Participant userbox:	{{User WikiprojectBeer}}

Contents 1 Title 2 Scope 3 Parentage 4 Similar WikiProjects 5 Goals 6 Guidelines 7 Participants 8 Collaboration page 9 General strategy and discussion forums 10 Infoboxes 11 Templates

[edit] Title

WikiProject on Beer

[edit] 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.

[edit] Parentage

The parent of this WikiProject is Wikipedia:WikiProject Food and Drink

[edit] Similar WikiProjects

• Dead Pubs Society is an external Wiki charting the demise of the British pub.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Wine Just started a sister project for Wine that could use some help from the fine folks that have contributed here!

[edit] Goals

1. Agree and formulate criteria for notability of breweries.
2. Catalogue all the notable breweries: Category:Beer and breweries by region.
3. Organize and categorize all known styles of beer, and write decent articles on them.
4. Agree and formulate criteria for notability of beers.
5. (Eventually) catalogue notable beers.
6. Add other essential beer-related knowledge to Wikipedia.
   1. e.g., more detailed info on beer and nationality.
7. Get beer to a FA status
8. Monitor Category:Beer and brewery stubs and develop those stubs into articles
9. Put in references and sources for information in the articles.

[edit] Guidelines

1. Wikipedia:WikiProject Beer/Beer brand article guidelines
2. Wikipedia:WikiProject Beer/Brewery article guidelines
3. Wikipedia:WikiProject Beer/Beer style article guidelines

[edit] Participants

Click here to add your name to the list of participants

[edit] Collaboration page

Click here to see or edit the collaboration page

[edit] General strategy and discussion forums

• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Beer/Notability Criteria
• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Beer/Strategy
• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Beer/Examples - Use this to test or demonstrate anything you're working on.

[edit] Infoboxes

• See How to use the brewboxes

Bass Brewers Limited
Image:Bass logo.png
Location	Burton-on-Trent, Staffodshire United Kingdom
Owner	Coors Brewing Company
Year opened	1777
Annual production	8.5 million UK barrels
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

This is the "brewery brewbox", an infobox used to summarize and standardize the information for a particular brewery.

• See How to use the beerboxes

Bucaneer's IPA
Bucaneer's IPA Mug
Brewery	Cap'n Hook's Brewery
Style	India Pale Ale
First brewed	2000
Alc. vol.	4.5%
Original Gravity	1.050
Final Gravity	1.006
IBU Scale	45

This is the "beer beerbox", an infobox used to summarize and standardize the information for a particular beer.

[edit] Templates

What to type	What it makes	What it's for
{{Beer-stub}} Talk	This beer- or brewery-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.	The official beer stub for beer or brewery-related articles.
{{[[Template::UBX/beer|:UBX/beer]]}} Talk	This article is part of WikiProject Beer, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to beers and breweries on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can choose to edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks.	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	This user is a member of WikiProject Beer, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to beers and breweries on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks.	To be used in your user page, to show you joined the project.
{{User WikiprojectBeer}} Talk	This user is a member of WikiProject Beer.	To be used in your user page, to show you joined the project.
{{User:UBX/beer}} Talk	This user drinks beer.	Displays your partiality to beer.
{{User:UBX/homebrewer}} Talk	This user is a homebrewer.	Displays your homebrewing hobby!
{{BeerAdvocate-beer}} Talk	Beer profile from BeerAdvocate	Quick link to a beer's page on [beeradvocate.com] for article external links
{{BeerAdvocate-brewery}} Talk	Brewery profile from BeerAdvocate	Quick link to a brewery's page on [beeradvocate.com] for article external links
{{Quaffale-brewery}} Talk	Brewery profile from The Directory of UK Real Ale Breweries	Quick link to a brewery's page on Quaffale for article external links; UK breweries only
{{Beer color}} Talk	SRM/Lovibond Example EBC 2 US light lager 4 3 German Pilsener 6 4 Pilsner Urquell 8 6 12 8 16 10 Bass pale ale 20 13 26 17 Dark lager 33 20 39 24 47 29 57 35 Stout 69 40 79 70 Imperial stout 138	Displays a table of Standard Reference Method beer colors. Use sparingly.