Untappd - Discover Beer Hack 4.1.8 + Redeem Codes

Good platform for sourcing & socializing. Intuitive & relatively engaging…and if you can’t find solid beers that fit your style here you’re doing something wrong. Solid fit for my objective of identifying new items to try and logging assessments of what I’ve sampled- so basically continual refinement of my personal beer preferences & ambitions. Being able to share the experiences of fellow craft beer fans adds another dimension to this value, and whimsical flare like badges and events adds fun ambience.

I will note that the platform does not facilitate true whale hunting - as everything you can source has to appear on a registered venue’s most updated menu…and so there’s very limited c2c exchange opportunity.

I’ll also add that the fairly recent pay to play “premium” access to provide ratings at more granular increments is a misstep. Completely understand that revenue has to be prioritized…but compromising the statistical integrity of your greatest value proposition - statistically relevant beer ratings- was an unwise source to tap. What’s done is done; but now the ballots are skewed towards the often questionable motives of the professional or quasi-pro social media personalities.

In the beginning, it took me a while to get into this app. I didn’t get the point. I don’t think anyone would ever classify me as a “beer geek” and I can’t exactly handle more than a couple beers in a given day (albeit the latest “session” beer offerings are delicious and confess I do take advantage of that!) It was on my phone for a good 6 months before I started “checking in” my drinks. Fast forward several years and I love it! It’s great to discover that have or have not imbibed particular one and what I thought of it in the past and compare that to what I think of it now. One of the new features I really like is it’s easy to find out what my friends thought of a particular beer, in addition to the whole untappd world. It’s great that I can see what “my local” is offering even when I’m still 25 miles away trying to get out of the office. As the app designers added new features its stability experienced ups and downs. Lately, they are all ups and continue even farther upward! (Keep up the good work!) Anyway, if you like trying new venues and new beers, or are curious what the beer world is excited about, you’ll love this app! I highly recommend.

Before finding out about Untappd, I think it fair to say that I wasn’t even a casual beer drinker. The handful of beers I’d had to that pinpoint, with only a couple of exceptions, were terrible. It didn’t help that my state of Alabama put serious restrictions on what we could buy here. Once the restrictions were removed and craft beer became a reality, I went from too few choices to too many, and I had no sensei to help me along the journey.

Until Untappd.

Now I had an app that could help me make choices based on what beers I tried and how I rated them. Once I’d begun to add Friends, many of which were far more knowledgeable of beers than I was, I could tap their experiences by reading their ratings and tasting notes (Pro Tip: please always leave tasting notes! Ratings are helpful, but tell us why you left whatever rating you did). When you’re traveling, you can search for local venues and check out their offerings. And you might just be able to find that Unicorn beer out there with the help of this app.

I love this app. It’s a great way to see new beers, stay up to date with local watering holes’ selections (as long as they update periodically) and see what my friends are drinking. Good for casual and those “hardcore” aficionado drinkers. You can take pictures of your drink, rate it from 0-5, say how it was served, where you bought it from and even where you’re drinking it at. If your friend is nearby you can get notifications and pay a surprise visit! Two major downsides:
1. If you want to know what your favorite bar/brewery/establishment has you need to hope they have updated the app recently (such as that day).
2. The direct messaging function is hidden and unless you really search around you friend’s profile you may miss out. Yes, you could always text them, but maybe you just met a new coworker and never got their phone number, the app is a nice way to reach out and ask if they want to meet up for a drink. Maybe even create a new friendship.
All in all, it’s a wonderful app, give it a try!

Love this app!! As a small business owner this app is invaluable. I have long suspected several of my employees of drinking too much on work nights. I've approached these employees in the past and they've been quick to deny my accusations, adding that, even if this was the case, their on the job performance has not been impacted (which is true but not the point!). UnTapped gave me the hard evidence to fire these employees. Firing these people has added a burden to my business, especially during this busy holiday season, but I will persevere.

A side benefit of Untapped is that seeing the expensive beers that my employees are posting with their checkins has confirmed that I am paying some employees way too much. Untapped gave me the ammo to decrease these employees' salaries. Thanks Untapped, that's more $$$ saved for my business.

As the ultimate testament to the app, I am going to make Untapped mandatory for all employees starting in 2021. Any drinks not logged in the app will be a fireable offense. No longer will I be the sucker.

My wife and I have enjoyed doing flights of beers at breweries because we get to have the fun of putting it into our app. It also helps keep track of what beers I did like and I did not like. We do not drink much and hence our numbers are low. But it is still nice to keep track of what we have had and have enjoyed. Also it is good to recommend to me because I might like. Where to find them. How to get them. Where the festivals are. What my friend might suggest to me and I to them. It is fantastic for going into a store and checking its rating before buying it. I find it extremely useful, I do not purchase a beer before scanning it to check its rating level. When I find something that’s a three, I skip over it and go to something I find that’s a four. It is helped save me time and money and narrow down beers that I actually like.

Signed up because my brother and a couple of friends were on. Over time I met people in far off lands (Berlin, Baltimore, Issaquah, Mebane, Kyoto, Portsmouth,... the list goes on) who were also beer fans and we had some smiles exchanging beer stories. Meeting someone on Untappd in a brewery or bar in a new or familiar place gave us something in common: a shared experience — something to talk about and to break the ice — cultural and language barriers fall when you share a love of beer, an Untappd facilitates that.
I quickly developed a discipline: always a good, sharp, saturated/exaggerated photo (indulging my inner photographer) and always a few words about the beer and where/why I had it. Sometimes a story, sometimes not. Most Importantly: check each beer in EXACTLY ONCE. This isn’t about how MUCH I drink but WHAT I have tried. Very rarely a 5 because 5-star beers are rare. If it’s no good, de-saturate the color in the picture. This app is what you make of it. I enjoy it, YMMV.

Peace out.

Four years now - that is how long I’ve been using this app and it has been a wonderful experience !

I was fortunate enough to try my first “REAL” IPA about five years ago and ever since then it has been so much fun to try so many different kinds and really allow my palate to grow, as well as quickly finding out what I don’t like 😂 (which is important!)
Untapped allows us avid beer drinkers to come together and share our love for beers of all brands and flavors; and not only that but to also befriend people on here and be able to discuss our similar, but also different tastes.
I am in a beer group with probably some of the most amazing people that I have been fortunate enough to meet since I moved to the south, and they have been gracious enough to show me the ropes on many many different styles of IPAs and stouts, etc.… I really can't think of a better hobby then this one because not only are the beers delicious and complex, but the friends you make along the way is what it's all about. Beer tasting is really a wonderful experience, and Untappd is the catalyst that really just brings everyone together for that one love: beer 🍺.
Stay awesome Untappd - keep growing; and to those out there who are just getting started - try everything once and share what you know without others who don't - cheers !!!!

When I got my first smartphone, this was the first app I downloaded. At the time, I had plenty of friends who used it. Now, not so much but my husband and I still use it. We compare the badges we each have. A lot. So many craft breweries are verified/hooked up with it now, which means the menus are updated more often. I also have two wish lists going: one for beers in the USA where I live, and the other for the UK where I used to live and now visit often. I love that this app is global!

What stops me giving it a full five stars? I wish there was the ability to see at a glance the breweries we’ve visited. Maybe have them appear as a different color on the map. This is a feature on the NY Craft Beer app (I live in NY). With so many breweries opening, I can differentiate. In an area and limited for time? How about we try somewhere new instead of one we may have visited previously?

Without going extremely into detail, this app is amazing and I absolutely love that a database like this exists to help me on my journey to trying new and delicious beers. I also very much love the social media aspect to it and my ability to cheers my friends and see what they are having these days. It’s a very useful app I find myself using quite often. HOWEVER, it really needs an update. I have had this app for probably 3 years now, and it hasn’t changed. The reason I think it could use an update is because the app itself feels slightly outdated. It is glitchy sometimes when uploading photos or navigating through. One thing hat especially annoys me is how to difficult it is to find where you add friends or even view your existing ones. To truly take this app to the next level, it’s developers should redesign the app to flow more smoothly and have less bugs and freezes.