I may have mentioned once or twice, or possibly way more than that, that I’m a big beer lover. And also a lover of good beer. Not a fan of light beers at all. I’ve recently discovered an iPhone app that helps me learn about nearly 8,000 beer brands, discover good new beers to try, and keep track of favorite brews.
Beer Brands provides a wealth of good information on over 7,800 beers, more than enough to help you build up your ‘Beer Connoisseur’ skills. Ironically, there is another app in the App Store actually called Beer Connoisseur, but it covers a measly 1,400 beers.
Here are some of Beer Brands’ features, per its App Store page:
- Find out what is best served with each beer
- Educate yourself with each beer’s details
- Beer Style and Introduction year
- Beer brewery and brewery type
- Containers and glasses used to hold the beer
- Serving temperature, fermentation type, pasteurization
- Alcohol by Volume/Weight
- Bookmark favorite beer brands
- Browse through all beer brands easily through an indexed list
- Use the search bar to easily find a specific beer
- Jump to a beer style category to find related beers
- Email feature to send information about a beer to your friends
That’s a big features list for a beer app I’d say – and they are well executed within the app as well.
I like this app a lot so far. Browsing by Beer Styles is a good way to find more beers that suit your tastes …
You get a solid overview of each individual beer …
I’m not sure how often I’ll ever make use of the ‘best served with’ suggestions, but it’s handy to have it there in case it’s wanted …
One of my favorite features is the Favorites list. It’s populated with some far-from-great beers when you first use the app – cough, Budweiser, cough – but that is easily corrected, as you can edit and delete lame entries, and add, just for example, Texas’ finest …
Overall, this app has been a mug of frosty goodness to use. Well, maybe not quite that – but it promises to be a big help next time I need to choose a frosty mug of goodness. 
*** Please Note: Beer Brands is a 17+ rated app (the first one I’ve purchased). It is given this rating for the following reasons:
Infrequent/Mild mature /suggestive themes.
Freqent/Intense Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug references.
You can find Beer Brands in the App Store now, and it’s a free app.
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The screen shot above contains an error. Blue Moon is now owned by Coors Brewing. They also own Killian's Irish Red. Even before Coors bought Blue Moon I would not have considered Blue Moon a microbrew, its more of a 'craft beer'.
Steve – thanks, that's good info. I've only recently discovered Blue Moon, and liked it, although it doesn't match Hoegaarden for me.
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