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does anyone review the recipes on this site?
At the bottom of every public recipe is a comment formdoes anyone review the recipes on this site?
Public recipes in the "recipe search" are rated with a number of stars. In the recipe data base, you can click on the star column to sort by most or least stars. You'll get the recipes that are highest rated, for what it's worth. There's no criteria for what's being rated so it's purely subjective. I tend to go by number of times brewed. The ones that have been brewed most tend to be tried and true.
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I think the brew count is as useful a guage as any. When a recipe like the "Sierra Nevada Pale Ale Clone" has 744 brews by hundreds of different brewers, that counts as a tried and true recipe that one could probably feel pretty good about following, either to the letter or as a guidline. If one recipe is brewed zero times but another shows to be brewed even a half dozen times, it's reasonable to give more weight to the one with at least something of a track record.I don't put too much weight into the brewed counter because, when I find a recipe I like, I copy the recipe before I use it. I do this so I can scale it or change ingredients to what I have on hand or can get from the LHBS. The down side is that the brew counter on the original public recipe does not get incremented.
I think the brew count is as useful a guage as any. When a recipe like the "Sierra Nevada Pale Ale Clone" has 744 brews by hundreds of different brewers, that counts as a tried and true recipe that one could probably feel pretty good about following, either to the letter or as a guidline. If one recipe is brewed zero times but another shows to be brewed even a half dozen times, it's reasonable to give more weight to the one with at least something of a track record.
And, as Ozark mentions, there's a comment section at the bottom of public recipes, too. Those tools along with the rating, even though none are particularly rigorous metrics on their own, can give some information about the viability of the recipe in question.