Investigating into Camra and beer in this country, I was pleasantly surprised to find a Good Beer Guide application on their website for my Android phone (also available for iphone) so I had to download it, see what I was missing out on. Camra have a print version of the guide available to buy, but I thought it was good to see the organisation branching out to new technologies. The application itself is a stripped down version with essential info, relevant contact details and even gives directions to your chosen establishment. the application itself is £4.99 which on app terms could be seen as expensive, but when the book retails at £14.99 with a new edition each year, it is seen as a handy alternative for the younger audience. The application itself is great to find beer, but what I want to produce is explain differences and tasting beer, something that hasn't been achieved yet.
key information in pictograms on first list given, but click further for greater detail.
Biographies, reviews and awards are also displayed.
And directions! intergrated with google maps which is a great feature.
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Thanks for the good comments... we are the developers of the app.
The Android version is not a stripped down version. Every word from the pub and brewery sections of the book is displayed in the app. The only information in the book that is not in the app are the introductory articles at the beginning of the book.
Regarding beer tastes... there is a brewery index which lists all of the 'regular' beers from a brewery along with tasting notes. We are looking at better ways of linking beers, pubs and breweries within the app. At the moment, a pub will display any beers it serves regularly along with the tasting notes, but this does not work well for pubs that have a lot of guest beers.
The app is being continuously improved and new features are being added based on feedback from users. The Android and iPhone versions both have the same latest features. The Nokia, Blackberry and other versions will be updated with new features soon.
We have been developing it for over 3 years, with Java versions for Nokia, Blackberry and other common phones available for (and advertised in) GBG 2009 edition, but until the iPhone version was released few people were interested in 'apps' for phones.
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