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We will need some basic models to start,
here is a short list of models we will probably need:

1. Beer (duh)
2. Brewery
3. User

Each of these models will need an associated controller with all the standard restful actions.
Each controller should return JSON by default so that it can be used by the react app.

We need to get pricing data from anywhere we can.
Currently MyBeerCollectibles and Ebay seem like great sources.

Ebay has an API, so this is probably the easiest source of data to get started with.

We will probably want some sort of job that runs periodically and queries the Ebay API for
recent price data per beer. We can run one collection job per beer, theoretically, so that we can harvest
pricing data for each beer in parallel.

Seeing as how we can expect users to manually import beers one by one, we need to harvest data from external sources about beer.

Some possible places to get beer info:
-Untappd
-BeerAdvocate
-RateBeer

I have no idea if any of these sites have API's, let alone if we can just get a complete list of beers from them. If they at least offer an API with a basic search feature, we could potentially use that API to piece together a semi-definitive list of that source systems beers.