Confusing multi-tap "Beer Me" behavior

[mik3y]

With multiple taps and no access control, Beer Me -> Select Drinker -> Pouring starts a a single flow, only on whatever tap was visible on the home screen. If another flow is started from meter activity (ie a different handle is pulled), it starts as an anonymous flow, and the authentication information is lost.

I think we originally added this to benefit access-controlled systems: don't start flows (open the valves) on any tap but the "desired" tap. But this is clearly a broken UX, it's not obvious that focused tap affects "beer me".

[theguardian]

Definitely a bug in the current implementation. IMO, the pourer should never have to select which beer they would like apriori - just authorize and pull a tap handle.

In access-controlled systems, this can be mitigated by opening all the valves for all beers upon authorization. I'm not sure that giving a user access to a subset of available beers is a feature that makes much sense, though I could be wrong.