Is the brewer search redundant?

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Message Jow P beers 7392 º places 495 º 17:38 Fri 10/20/2017 While on subject when on Brewer page I wish my count would be at top on mobile so don’t have to scroll all the way down to see if I’ve tried any.
Message craftyrocker beers 299 º 17:40 Fri 10/20/2017 Searching by brewer is useful
Message Marko P admin beers 17959 º places 879 º 18:05 Fri 10/20/2017 Originally posted by The_Osprey I definitely search for breweries rather than beers on occasion

Message blipp beers 14902 º places 219 º 18:19 Fri 10/20/2017 It looks like the people have spoken. The ability to easily search by brewery will be removed. Thanks, everyone!
Message joet P admin beers 2900 º places 125 º 20:21 Fri 10/20/2017 Originally posted by blipp It looks like the people have spoken. The ability to easily search by brewery will be removed. Thanks, everyone! Salty. What I mean is that if you wrote "Adairius" or "Bell's" or even "sierra nevada" and searched, if the process simply looked up beers with those terms and grabbed the breweries from those beers, a separate search for brewers would be unnecessary.
Message Garrold P beers 10736 º places 149 º 20:28 Fri 10/20/2017 Originally posted by Marko Originally posted by The_Osprey I definitely search for breweries rather than beers on occasion
Message fonefan P beers 74185 º places 703 º 22:46 Fri 10/20/2017 Originally posted by The_Osprey I definitely search for breweries rather than beers on occasion +1

Message Sigmund beers 13373 º places 447 º 23:11 Fri 10/20/2017 No, it is NOT redundant!
Message blipp beers 14902 º places 219 º 00:11 Sat 10/21/2017 Originally posted by joet Originally posted by blipp It looks like the people have spoken. The ability to easily search by brewery will be removed. Thanks, everyone! Salty. What I mean is that if you wrote "Adairius" or "Bell's" or even "sierra nevada" and searched, if the process simply looked up beers with those terms and grabbed the breweries from those beers, a separate search for brewers would be unnecessary. Just jiggling your bean bag So, if you searched for "Stone" it would just return beers from "Stone"? What about "Stone Liberty Station" or "Stone Berlin"? I think given the variety or ways users utilize search terms to find what they want, creating a rule like that, which would, in effect, limit search returns, might be a bad idea. I think a better alternative would be to make "advanced" searching features more prominent. So, for example, if I search "Stone" and it returns a lot of results, I can choose things like -- "Sort by most ratings" "search by brewery only" "Limit by country" etc.
Message BVery beers 13631 º places 750 º 01:33 Sat 10/21/2017 I search by brewery all the time. Recent example - had a new beer that wasn't in the database, and I was unfamiliar with the brewery. I wouldn't have known what other beer names to search to get the brewery indirectly, and the brewers name was common enough that it would have yielded a bunch of beers by different breweries. With the brewer results, there were a few breweries at the top of the search result, and I could easily identify the right one by their location.