Travel by the Pint: the Blog

Friend of this site and unofficial, off-site beerologist, Chad Case, has been bugging us asking us nicely for a Travel by the Pint ringtone for his iPhone. Awesome idea! And so we’ve created one and made it available for download from the Merchandise and Free Stuff page of our site.

If you have an iPhone and a Mac, just double-click the downloaded file and it will be added to the ringtone library in iTunes. After syncing your phone, the ringtone should be available through your settings app. If you have some other kind of phone or are on a PC — consult your manual or someone under the age of 15 for instructions.

My friend and fellow travel photographer, Chad Case, told me about iBeer months ago before I even had an iPhone. It’s an application that runs on the phone as well as the iPod Touch and fills the device with a lifelike image of beer that you can “drink” by tipping the corner to your mouth. It’s best explained with video. Check out the clip in this review by 148apps.com. Evidently, the folks that made iBeer are now in court with Molson Coors, suing for over $12 million due to a similar app called iPint that the brewing giant developed to promote their Carling brand.

Now that I finally have an iPhone myself, I decided to check out what other (possibly more useful?) beer-related apps are available from the iTunes App Store. Here’s what I have turned up so far. I haven’t loaded any of these yet so they’re not recommendations, just a list of available offerings. Let me know in the comments if I’ve missed anything or if you have had any experience with these apps.

iBeer — simulated beer for your simulated enjoyment
Beer Pad — an app for recording your tasting notes
Tasting Notes — not limited to beer, this app records tasting notes for wine, whiskey, tea, cigars and coffee as well
BrewMath — “turns your iPod Touch or iPhone into a powerful pocket calculator for brewers”. Unit conversions, mash calculations and much, much more
Beer Hero — database of over 1600 beers with information on pairings and a pub finder
iBeers Pro — over 2700 beers in this database with information on brewery, bottle size, type, alcohol content, etc. See also, iBeers and iBeers Lite
Beer Brands — beer database with pairing info, suggested glasses and serving temperatures, alcohol by volume and more
Aleboards — displays a photo of the current “on-draft” chalkboards from Dogfish Head Alehouses
Beer Counter — um… for counting how many beers you’ve had?
Cold Beer — tells you how long a refrigerator needs to cool down beer in various bottle sizes
Beer Finder — a game that “challenges players to find the missing beer bottles at the bar as fast as they can”
Beer Duel — think shuffleboard only with pints
Beer Pong — multiple versions of this drinking game in digital form

For more information on any of these titles or to purchase them, go to the App Store in iTunes and search on the program’s name. If you don’t have iTunes, you can download it free from Apple.