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Beer apps for the iPhone
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February 20th, 2010Beer newsBeer apps for the iPhone
Mashable's guide to iPhone beer apps is mainly US focused
Social media enthusiasts Mashable have published a list of beer apps for the iPhone ranging in price from free of charge to $4.99. From finding the nearest brew pub to swotting up on beer styles, there’s a selection of beer related applications but unfortunately for us UK beer lovers the list seems very US centric.
iBeer seems to be a very similar to the pointless but kinda entertaining Carling iPhone app. Gallagher’s, iBeers Pro and BeerCloud are all applications that let you research a plethora of beer types and styles and include functionality including beer search, beer finders and beer reviews.
DrinkFit counts calories whilst Happy Hour, Find Craft Beer and Guinness Pub Finder all focus on buying beer either on- or off-trade (again, in the USA). The one that stands out for me is iBrewMaster which allows home brewers to record the vital statistic of their brews and has 50 recipes built in. I’ll get Sam to try it when he does his next batch of pale ale (that somehow turned out like a Belgian blonde!)
We’ve also come across a few other apps recently including BrewPal (similar to iBrewMaster we believe), FreeBooze, Beer Pong, Beer Brands and iDrink! which keeps track of your evenings drinking according to the Huffington Post.
In the UK there’s less choice although I’ve seen the NHS units tracker in action a few times but not yet heard any feedback on the Good Beer Guides iPhone app.
I’m a conscientious dissenter from the iPhone revolution, plucking for the gorgeous but virtually app-free HTC HD2. So if beer lovers out there know of more beer iPhone apps (or apps for Android, Windows or another platform) or has tried any of the UK focused applications please let us know.
And even better if you build iPhone or other apps, please start building them for Windows Mobile too, we need them to!
Tags: drinking, iPhone beer apps, technology
6 responses to “Beer apps for the iPhone” 
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There is a ratebeer app, I got an email about it the other day. As a Blackberry user I said it’s wasted on me but hopefully they will make one for BB. iBeer is good fun for the first three times, then it’s just boring! I kind of wish I had an iphone to be able to use some of these features but then I realise that iphones are rubbish compared to blackberry
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michael Reply:
March 5th, 2010 at 5:19 pmThere is an iphone app called BEER NUMBER that has some pretty good recommendations.
If you select the choices down towards the bottom of each column you get good picks (Pete’s Wick Ale, Flying Dog Doggie Style, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale). If you select choices towards the top you get brews from the big three.[Reply]
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FletchtheMonkey February 20th, 2010 at 10:19
I hope Adobe Air build a mobile platform and everyone just builds apps across that. News on the street is the mobile giants are getting together along similar lines, but I think Air will do the job suitably.
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Think you’re badly off for apps, then spare a thought for us Samsung Symbian users. The amount of apps for the iphone ALMOST makes me wish I wasn’t a conscientious objector. Hopefully now Symbian is open source, someone will take pity on me and bring out some apps.
I can vouch for the GBG app on the iphone. It really is excellent and works quickly and smoothly. The search feature is a great bonus as well.
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FletchtheMonkey Reply:
February 25th, 2010 at 9:30 pmI used to be a Samsung Symbian user back in 2004/5, before apps even existed! Great phone (SX1 I think?!) but it died on me and was about as compatible with my pc as an icecube with direct sunlight.
I’m a bit jealous of the ease of everything with an iphne but i love my htc, just cos it’s different!
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Also check out my app called BeerMap – http://itunes.com/app/BeerMap – which allows beer drinkers to find out what beer/pubs are good near them and then add their own reviews as well.
As all the content is user generated, we’re always needing more real ale drinkers with iPhones to use it. Please give it a go!
There’s also a website which goes with the app at http://www.ibeermap.co.uk/
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This week Yard of Ale has launched on the apple app store.
Gameplay is simple – drink the Yard of Ale by tilting your device, trying not to spill too much beer.
iTunes: http://bit.ly/YardOfAle
Website: http://www.yardofale-game.comYour feedback will be greatly appreciated.
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We can launch Findmytap in UK if there’s enough interest?
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FletchtheMonkey Reply:
May 25th, 2011 at 12:47 pmMight be worth seeing how many people use The Good Beer Guide app to gauge interest? I’m on a HTC HD2 so can you do a Windows Mobile 6.5 version?!
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markdredge February 20th, 2010 at 10:11