Craft Beer London app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Blue Crow Media
First release : 06 Aug 2012
App size: 6.2 Mb
Explore London’s best craft beer pubs, breweries and shops in the capital’s first guide dedicated to craft beer. Maps, listings, reviews and news help you discover London’s fast-growing craft beer scene. Carefully curated, Craft Beer London ensures that you will never drink a bad pint again. New pubs, breweries and shops are regularly added to the app as they open.
Craft Beer London features:
London’s best craft beer pubs: Including ratings, photos, reviews, location and contact details, beer recommendations and more.
London’s leading craft breweries: Reviews, beer recommendations and more for the capital’s leading craft breweries including The Kernel, Meantime, Camden Town Brewery and many more.
Shops selling craft beer: Reviews and details of London’s best shops for purchasing craft beer.
Map: Perfect for finding the nearest craft beer pubs, shops and breweries, or heading out on a pub crawl.
News: All the latest news about London’s craft beer scene, including details about new breweries and pubs opening, background information on the craft beer revolution and more.
Offline usage: The app is optimised for offline usage for everything but images and location.
Please ensure that you are connected to the internet when using the app for the first time.
Find us on Twitter @craftbeerlondon
Contact us with feedback at [email protected]
About Blue Crow Media:
Blue Crow Media is an award-winning independent app publisher dedicated to finding the highest quality food and drink in London and elsewhere. Our apps include Londons Best Coffee, The London Wine Guide, Burgerapp, New Yorks Best Coffee and Craft Beer New York.
Latest reviews of Craft Beer London app for iPhone and iPad
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London, the Big Smoke, is a sprawling, spread-out place, baffling even to many locals. Its also home to a dynamic new beer scene, with dozens of new pubs — even dozens of new breweries — all dating from just the past few years. This means two things: Youll definitely need help finding your way to good beer there. Your guidebook is — without a doubt — way out of date. The good stuffs just not in it. Thats where this app comes in, and I wish like hell it had been available for my last trip: it would have made planning so much easier. Youve got easy tabs for the best pubs, breweries and bottle shops. Its location-aware, so it gives you the closest places to where you currently are. You can search by name, or cruise through the (very good) maps. Theres even a news feed for news about ownership changes, beer festivals, and so forth, so youll be up to date when you land, and ready to take advantage of whatevers happening. A couple of caveats: the pubs are rated by Will Hawkes, a London-based beer writer for the Independent and other newspapers, but be aware those ratings are subjective (the King William IV is a 3-star pub? Whatever). The "what to drink" tips are a bit over-simplified, but I imagine that would help a lot of time-pressed travelers, or people who are not completely au courant with the exploding UK beer scene. Did this app change my life? No. Did it make me more handsome, smarter, or more popular at parties? Maybe. In any case, its a first-rate job that easily replaces a heavy "Good Beer" guidebook or piles of printed-up internet pages with a sleek, user-friendly interface and authoritative, well-written listings for the cream of the crop of London pubs and beer bars, and a bargain at the price. Im already planning my next trip to London using this app as the starting point. Mandatory for beer-loving travelers to London. Highly recommended.
I appreciate the effort thats gone in to this app. The positives are this is a great app for the new kid wanting some beginner guidance on the craft beer scene in London. The negatives are the inflexibility in ability to change ratings and add comments to the creators information. I dont necessarily agree with the ratings. Was there any monetisation involved in the review process? While I doubt there was, I prefer more democratic methods for ratings. Give the users a chance to give their input! And to nominate their favourites for inclusion in the process.