Portal talk:Beer

It has begun
Started this portal - but I'm not sure what is supposed to happen. But if other broad subjects have a portal, then so should beer. Drink up! SilkTork 23:49, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Is there any point to this?
What does a portal do? SilkTork 14:59, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
 * See Portal.--cj | talk 16:32, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Comment
There really aren't a lot of topics under beer. Perhaps a Portal:Beverage instead? -- T B C ??? ???  ??? 03:43, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Beverage alone would be huge. How about Portal:Alcoholic beverage? Think outside the box 15:24, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I agree.  SilkTork  *YES!

Well you got Portal:Drink as a general home page for all beverage related articles. --Jeremy ( Blah blah... ) 06:14, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Pub/Drinking establishment task force
Anyone interesting in working for a while on improving the pub articles? Sorting out the stubs. Organising the categories. Creating a Pub InfoBox. Drawing up some kind of notability guideline, and checking that pub articles are meeting the guidelines. Drawing up a Style guideline. Working on the editing of the main articles - Public house,List of public houses in the United Kingdom, Bar (establishment), etc. Considering how to integrate all the drinking establishments around the globe. Perhaps create a new parent article: Drinking establishment. I've started working on the pub articles, but I would really like to work with other people to bounce ideas and keep within consensus. Check in at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Beer, or respond here or drop a message on my talkpage. Cheers!  SilkTork  *YES! 18:59, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Updates
I've spiffened the portal up a bit, so what do you think? -- MISTER ALCOHOL  TC 06:03, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Brewing
How does one go about starting a new field/aspect to the portal - I'm new here and there seems to be an opportunity for information on brewing senso lato as a producer to supplement to the consumer's side which would be the beer aspect.

--Andbrew.downes (talk) 10:10, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
 * What field are you thinking of adding? --Jeremy ( Blah blah... ) 04:36, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I realised if you're new - best you get to settle down before making comments. There is a Category:Brewing that would answer my question - just with gaps in it that the QE2 could get through quite easilyAndbrew.downes (talk) 10:55, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Changes to the portal
Hey all,

I have recently begun a series of changes to the portal to make it more dynamic. I am altering how the sections behave by adding the random portal component template. This will change the articles each time the portal is visited/refreshed. This will involve restructuring the sub-pages quite a bit, so do not be alarmed if you see db-author, db-reason or speedy appear on some archive pages, this is just me moving the data to the new sub-pages. You can see an example of how this will look at any of the F&D portals, food, drink or wine.

There are some new templates that are used to ease the creation of new articles, there is a link to them at the top of the Selected foo sub-page that you can use when you add new articles. All new articles should go at the bottom of the Selected foo page in the first available article sub-page link.

I have completed the Selected articles section and created the Selected persons section with about a half a dozen entries. Next, I will be working on splitting the Beer/Brewery of the week section into Selected breweries and Selected beer sections next, using the Selected business and Selected product templates for these. You can see how this will work on the Wine Portal page, specifically the Selected wineries section.

--Jeremy ( Blah blah... ) 04:34, 12 January 2009 (UTC) Removed statement that beer is the oldest alcoholic beverage. This is controversial at best. Pretty unlikely when you think about it. See discussion on the beer talk page. Dr Thermo (talk) 23:27, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Status report from the Portals WikiProject
WikiProject Portals is back!

The project was rebooted and completely overhauled on April 17th, 2018.

Its goals are to revitalize the entire portal system, make building and maintaining portals easier, and design the portals of the future.

As of April 29th, membership is at 56 editors, and growing.

There are design initiatives for revitalizing the portals system as a whole, and for each component of portals.

Tools are provided for building and maintaining portals, including automated portals that update themselves in various ways.

And, if you are bored and would like something to occupy your mind, we have a wonderful task list.

From your friendly neighborhood Portals WikiProject. &mdash; The Transhumanist  03:25, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

Rebooted portal but no one looked at the result
Did you know... ... that the founder of Banks Beer, Peter D'Aguiar, was also a prominent Guyanese politician?

... that beer ice cream has been served at the Great American Beer Festival?

... that by winning the 2016–17 PBA Philippine Cup Finals, the San Miguel Beermen became the second team in Philippine Basketball Association history to keep permanent possession of the Jun Bernardino Trophy?

... that Frank Beermann conducted the first recording of Bruno Maderna's Requiem, and the German premiere of Péter Eötvös's opera Love and Other Demons at the Chemnitz Opera?

... a new category in the alcoholic beverage industry, referred to as "hard soda" or "flavored beer", was created due to the prosperity of Small Town Brewery's Not Your Father's Root Beer brand?

... that Beerbohm, a cat owned by the Gielgud Theatre, became famous for entering actors' dressing rooms, attacking props, and wandering across the stage during performances?

6 DYKs and 3 of them have nothing to do with the topic. Legacypac (talk) 09:38, 28 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Nb. ✅ The Did you know section was removed from the portal one day after the above post, on 29 March 2019 (diff). North America1000 05:25, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

Portal updates
The following updates have been performed to the portal. North America1000 04:12, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Updated portal using Template:Transclude random excerpt, providing current, up-to-date information that is verbatim to article content. A consensus approving the usage of transclusion templates in portals was formed at this Village Pump discussion. Used selections from Portal:Beer/Selected person.
 * Added more images to subpages of Portal:Beer/Selected picture
 * Expanded the Selected biography section (diff)
 * Added a new General images section, which displays images from various topically-related articles (diff).