Beers on PintDeck Taste
Putting a beer on PintDeck Taste so drinkers can find, rate and collect it, taking it off again, and reading what drinkers think.
PintDeck Taste is the iPhone app your drinkers use to find beers, rate them and collect a card for each one they log. A beer you put on Taste gets a public page there. Your beers only go on Taste when you put them there, or switch on publishing new beers automatically. Drinkers can add a beer to Taste themselves, too; putting yours on links to their entry.
Before you start: claim your brewery
Beers go on Taste under your brewery's page, so claim it first: the Your page on PintDeck card on Customers › Taste › Overview. If Taste says Coming soon in your sidebar, it isn't on for your brewery yet.
Putting beers on Taste needs an active subscription.
Put a beer on Taste
Find the PintDeck row
Open the beer. In Where it shows, the first row is PintDeck. A beer that isn't on Taste says Not on PintDeck: Drinkers can't find or rate it.
Put it on
Click Put on PintDeck. If drinkers already added this beer to Taste themselves, the button says Link and put on instead, and names the entry it will join: their check-ins and cards carry over to you.
Make it public
PintDeck asks first. Make it public puts it on, right away: this doesn't wait for Save.
Once it's on, the row says PintDeck Taste, with Live and View to open its public page. Drinkers can rate it and leave notes. You keep control of its details, and corrections drinkers suggest come to you to approve.
Publish new beers automatically
In Customers › Taste, the Your beers on PintDeck card has a switch, Publish new beers automatically, that puts beers on Taste without you doing it each time. Beers marked coming soon are never published, so anything you haven't released stays private.
Take a beer off Taste
In the PintDeck row, open ⋯ and choose Take off PintDeck. What happens depends on whether anyone has logged it:
| What you pick | What happens | |
|---|---|---|
| Nobody has logged it | Remove it | It's removed from PintDeck completely. You can put it on again later. |
| Someone has logged it | Retire it | The page stays up and their cards are untouched. It comes off on tap now and stops appearing to new drinkers. You can put it back any time. |
Once someone has logged a beer, you can't delete it from your Beers list either, only archive it: see Archive or delete a beer.
Removed by PintDeck means Taste's moderation took the beer down after a report. Drinkers can't see it, and putting it on again won't bring it back. The row says who to email if you think it's a mistake.
What drinkers think
The beer's Drinkers tab is what Taste knows about it. Four numbers across the top:
| Number | Means |
|---|---|
| Rating | The average, out of 5, and how many ratings it's from. |
| Check-ins | How many times it's been logged, and since when. |
| Collected | How many people hold its card. |
| At your place | The share of check-ins logged at your brewery. |
Then three panels:
- How they rate it: how many ratings landed on each of the five words drinkers pick from, All-timer, Excellent, Good, Not for me and Drain pour.
- Check-ins a week: a bar for each recent week.
- What they say: the latest notes drinkers wrote with a check-in, with their rating.
On the Beers list, the Drinkers column shows the rating and check-ins, and the PintDeck column (from Customize) which beers are on Taste.
Corrections from drinkers
When drinkers suggest a fix to one of your beers on Taste (ABV: 5.2% → 5.6%), admins see it at the top of that beer's Overview, under Suggested by drinkers. Apply changes the beer; ✕ dismisses the suggestion.
On the iPhone
PintDeck Business for iPhone has the same PintDeck row on a beer's Overview, with its own menu: View its public page, See what drinkers think, and Take off PintDeck. The Drinkers tab is there too.
How beers reach your menus
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Archive or delete a beer
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