The motto of Beer Advocate is Respect Beer. As a newbie in the beer connoisseur world I appreciate a knowledge resource I can depend on for facts. Their reviewing guidelines make it a lot easier...

If you want people with bad attitudes who think they are the only people in the world who understand beer, go visit this thing and its website. Wow. If you want a lot of support for cheap US...

I signed up for beer advocate many years ago but didn't find myself using it much. I was unimpressed because I would often find out about beer festivals from other sources, friends/facebook/etc....