Full confession: I’m not beer-savvy like fellow Perceptive Travel blogger Brian Spencer, who can rattle off posts about craft beer in Singapore. I do know what I like, which is usually some sort of ale, even if I don’t yet know the language to describe it (although I can say “hoppy,” because who wouldn’t want to throw around a fun word like “hoppy?”)
When I travel, the Untappd beer exploration app on my phone comes in quite handy. It’s like Foodspotting (another favorite travel app) but just for beer.
My list of beers explored is still quite puny, but it’s a start. There’s the unfiltered wheat from Boulevard Brewing in Kansas that looked rather odd because it was cloudy when most of us are used to clear beer, but it was delicious. I tried Honey Bear Golden Ale from the Jasper Brewing Company in Alberta, Canada, and most recently it was Tankhouse Ale from Mill Street Brewery in Toronto.
You can poke all around in the app, but the website is set up for exploration as well, if apps aren’t your thing. In The Pub on Untapped you’ll find the latest “reports from the field” of who is drinking what and reporting it from the app, current Trending Beers and Trending Places that are seeing a lot of action.
There’s an Untappd Tumblr blog, too, with posts like Dutch Beer Week 2013 and Michigan Cask Ale Festival Promotion.
Are you a beer fan? Please tell us about your favorites down in the comments.
Cheers!
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Cool! I’ve been dying to do a craft beer tour of Mendocino County , CA; they make some of my favorites up there.
That’s a nice app! I should probably update my travel gadget.
Thanks Katelyn,
Yes, it can be easy to overload your phone with goodies. I just cleaned out a bunch of little-used apps the other day.
Thanks Joe,
The Mendocino area is lovely….even better with a good beer! 🙂
Nice post Sheila Mam.
It is very easy to write about beer for writers who use it regularly. I must appreciate you for this post as you are not a beer-savvy like other travel bloggers. Any way nice stuff. I like your specialty in discussing verity of matters coinciding with Travel and Tourism. I must double appreciate you on writing skills starting from how to pack a tour suitcase (you tube video)to exploring beer during your travel. Thanks a lot for those presentations given at ICTT 2013, Kovalam. I have read that swimming infinity post also. I really enjoyed your words about God’s own country and thanks for mentioning local wit. We miss those special moments like dance for not working mic, and especially for “bla bla bla” which one we regularly used to hear from Matt Cutts, Google web spam team head(Google webmaster tools help forum video).
Thank you, Brahmadas, I hope to return to Kerala someday!