With an ever greater assortment of beers lining store shelves and flowing through bar taps, the launch of BeerCloud 2.0 for Android offers a refreshingly simple way to navigate the increasingly complex world of beer.
Version 2.0 of BeerCloud adds some powerful new functionality, including the ability to manage your favorite beers, brewers, and places* to buy beer, and to store tasting notes. Comments can be instantly published to your Facebook or Twitter account, complete with a geotag. And everything you create with BeerCloud 2.0 is actively synced with your "BeerCloud" on GreatBrewers.com.
BeerCloud 2.0 users can now view the beer lists they've created on GreatBrewers.com, as well as upcoming events for beer fan groups they have joined on that site. In supported geographies*, users can also check out the current beer lineup at local retailers, and browse a list brands that can be tracked down in their local market.
Summary of upgrades:
- Flag your favorite beers, brewers, and *places to buy beer
- Submit and store your tasting notes
- Share comments on specific beers with friends via Facebook, Twitter, messaging, or email
- Instantly access and manage your favorites and tasting notes in "My Cloud"
- Preview upcoming events from groups you've joined in GreatBrewers.com
- View beer lists you've created with GreatBrewers.com
- "Nearby" feature lets you find bars, restaurants, and beer stores in your area* and view a current list of beers available
- "Nearby" also enables you to browse a list of beers* you can track down in your neighborhood.
- Everything is directly synced with data on GreatBrewers.com. Sign up for an account today to get started!
BeerCloud 2.0 for Android further enhances all of the functionality users enjoyed in the first version of BeerCloud, including quick searching by text, voice, or a barcode scan, a beer sommelier that recommends the best styles to match any dish, and GPS beer tracking. The ever growing database, which is hosted by GreatBrewers.com, now includes more than 3,600 beer descriptions and over 640 brewery bios. The beer tracking database, which is updated each week, includes more than a million rows of data detailing beer offerings at over 51,000 retailers in 11 states.
BeerCloud 2.0 is now available for all devices running Android, and can be downloaded for free. Viewing this page with an Android device? Click the icon below to download BeerCloud 2.0, or navigate to the Android Market and search "BeerCloud."
*For current geographies supported with Beer Finder data, click here.
BeerCloud 2.0 for iPhone/iOS is currently under development.
Developers
- Jingsheng Wang, the lead engineer of GreatBrewers.com and BeerCloud, is an open-source purist and an Android fanatic who takes a fresh approach to software engineering.
- Eric McKay, creator of GreatBrewers.com, is a self-professed beer geek who is dedicated to helping the world discover great beer.
- Tom Byrne, GreatBrewers.com's lead graphic designer celebrates two of his passions, art and great beer, by designing great beer art.
Click here to see the release on Version 1.0 of BeerCloud for Android.
Comments
Favorite Brewers list
Is there any way to alphabetize my list of favorite brewers so I can find the corresponding beer lists more efficiently?
iPhone beercloud
Any news on when beercloud will be available for iPhone?
Thanks
Great Brewers iPad App?
Any chance of you guys creating an App for the iPad anytime soon?
iPad App
Yes; we need an iPad app!
Any chance of you guys adding
Any chance of you guys adding a Windows Phone app? I made the switch from Android to WP, and am really missing your app. Thanks for any info!
Second that - shouldn't be
Second that - shouldn't be too difficult to make it compatible.
I love it.
first beer app to use social media,I love it.
Is the app no longer available?
I cannot find the app on the Android Market and would really like to download it. Am I missing something?
You can find and install it
You can find and install it here if you signed in on Google. https://market.android.com/details?id=com.greatbrewers.beercloud&feature... .
If you still cannot install it after signing in, you might be running a minor version of Android. Please let me know full specs of your phone. Thanks for asking.
Fantastic!
BeerCloud 2.0 for Android! Wow! Fantastic! This would be very useful to me. Thanks for this new apps. I love it.
Carolyn
Webmaster of MLM Help
Fantastic app... first beer
Fantastic app... first beer app to use social media. Only wish it would rotate the screen when hardware keyboard is being used.
I love the use of social
I love the use of social media (and by far the best beer tasting app I've found for ANY platform), but there are some major sticking points. Unless some of the data collection is crowd-sourced, I can't see this competing with beermenus.com for finding where to get a beer I'm looking for. In the bay area most beers that I have had locally show the nearest place to find them 1800 miles away. Let users add locations (bars, stores, etc) along with the beers they've had there and the most recent price (should include whether or not it was happy hour) and you will be able to build the database quickly.
Julius
Social Beer App's
Have you seen or had the opportunity of trying Tap Hunter since your post?
http://sandiego.taphunter.com/
Beer Cloud App
Have a BlackBery Torch. Love it! Let me know when you've developed the app for it.v
I love using Social Media at
I love using Social Media at any time and this is a great news for me that I will be able to use it through this new BeerCloud, an Android Application for my phone.
According to U.S. smart phone
According to U.S. smart phone market Q3,2010 report from Canalys: Blackberry (RIM) only has 24.2% market share left, and this number is still decreasing. I see it's hard for BeerCloud to target Blackberry users going forward. http://www.canalys.com/pr/2010/r2010111.html
BeerCloud
Well, I don't care about BeerCloud having a hard time targetting BlackBerry users because the Android users are loving BeerCloud.I love this app.
I am sure that the Beer Cloud
I am sure that the Beer Cloud 2.0 is a real piece of wonder. It is a way significantly improved version from the previous ones of the Android OS. The Android have actually bothered to remove all the flaws from the previous versions and have added some exciting new features.
Wait a minute! You wanna tell
Wait a minute! You wanna tell that 1/4 of all users is nothing to be oriented at? I don't agree with you. And why shouldn't people get a good app only because they choose another smartphone? We, developers, shouldn't influence the market, we should supply a demand.
Kat from blackberry application development
Shocking Response From Great Brewers Developers
Katatina88 Guess that leaves it open for you to come up with your own "Elite Brewers" app.
With the addition of BlackBerry Playbook along with the current 25% market share, the number of users will , at a minimum, stabilize.
As others join the market with more competitive products, the remaining 75% won't be divided further? What a short-sighted approach.
Thanks for your comment Kat!
It's important to notice that
It's important to notice that I am only speaking for myself. Blackberry's 25% market share (a few month ago) is NOT stable, because it's decreasing rapidly. GreatBrewers.com tries to make BeerCloud to be available for as many platforms as possible when the cost permits. But, since the resources of BeerCloud is limited; as an advocate in the technology industry, I feel it's important to get GreatBrewers.com to know the priority of platform choices.