We’ve officially started scanning twitter for the #brewvu hashtag instead of the #craftbeer hashtag.

We’ve also started scanning for Camera+ photos and we’ve fixed a small bug that was keeping twitpic photos from showing up here.

We removed all voting and views (vus) from current images tagged #craftbeer but we are leaving these images up for the time being so that the site will have content. Feel free to check out the 3,000+ brewvus we’ve already collected.

Feel free to start using #brewvu and spreading the word. We’re still in a beta stage at this point and we’re still adding features to the site, so don’t be surprised if you see a bug or two.

Welcome to brewvu.

This is hush hush.

If you’ve found this page then you’re probably a friend of either Jay Brooks or Jonathan Surratt and you are a twitter user that occasionally uploads a beer picture.

We’re basically in a testing phase of a new site called brewvu.com and we need your help. Here’s how you can help us.

1. post a beer image to your twitter timeline via twitter, instagram, yfrog or twitpic.
2. Tag that image with the #craftbeer hashtag.
3. visit brewvu.com and wait at least a full minute until your image (hopefully) shows up.
4. Sign-in with twitter (button in top right of any page that isn’t a blog page). Don’t worry, we will not post anything for you via twitter. (Eventually you will be able to log into the site and post images straight from one of our pages)
5. vote a few images up or down (don’t worry this data will all be erased so feel free to vote however you want.
6. look around for bugs (login bugs, voting or viewing image bugs are pretty important).
7. comment here if you find any bugs or if things don’t work like you would expect them to work.

brewvu.com is going to be an archive for people’s beer images. There is also potential for monthly sponsored contests, “badges” and other hip social media fun. We will be rolling those things out at a later date.

When we leave testing mode we will no longer be scanning for the #craftbeer hashtag and we will purge the database of all current images/tags/votes. So feel free to just play around. Everything, including your login information will be wiped before the full site goes live. Try not to spread the word about this alpha test. After we go live with the site we will start scanning for the #brewvu hashtag.

Anything you can help with will make the final user experience better and we appreciate any help or advice that you might have.