I judge them by the number of comments.
It seems lately there are a lor of people posting untested recipes....Rwcipesthat they brewed or are thinking about brewing but have not tasted yet. Those are just a waste of time.
If they're in the official recipe archive, and they're untested report it to the mods and they'll move it to the recipe/ingredient section of the forum.
The archive is for tried and true often brewed recipes, not for folks experiments. The idea has always been that you should be able to trust ANY recipe from that area, and people's pull downs,
The recipe ingredients section is where we tweak recipes, posts experiments and discuss them with folks. They're more experimental. I have probably 100 of those threads floating around but only a handful of recipes actually in the archives, I may only officially release one recipe a year to the archives, and that's because to me it needs to be perfect before I put my name on it.
Usually it doesn't go in there til a couple versions have been brewed, it's been judged in a contests, tasted by my fellow brewers, many of whom are bjcp judges, in other words they've kind of been vetted before I stake my rep on them.
One ways quickly to tell if one of the recipes in there has or hasn't been brewed, is to see if the poster filled out ALL the little fields in the form that starts the archiving process.
If the beer hasn't been brewed yet, the FG box will be blank.
Don't hesitate to pm a mod if you see an unvetted recipe in there. A lot of folks don't know the distinction between the recipe/ingredients section and the archive, and the mods will be quick to move the recipe.
I usually post in the thread and ask the poster if they've brewed it or not yet as well, then I'll explain the difference and often they will pm the mods themselves to have the thread moved.
