How do they serve the collaborators, consumers, and community?īeer collaborations or “collabs” are generally cross-promotions between breweries, fashion brands, foods, sports teams, charities - pretty much anything. Scroll through the Untappd app, and many breweries list pages upon pages of collaborations.īut what, exactly, does that mean? How do collaborations come about? Who decides what’s in the beer? Please check it out and let me know what you think, and if you like it tell your friends! There's a free, ad-supported version and a 'pro' version for $0.Anyone who’s ever been to an independent brewery or picked up a can of craft brew probably has seen the term “collaboration” on a menu or can. I'm trying very hard to get the word out and have gotten a lot of interest from CoffeeGeek's advertising and forums and going door to door to local (Washington D.C.) pour-over coffee shops, but it's slow going finding people who love and value coffee the way we do and spreading the app by word of the mouth. The app also makes recommendations based on your previous ratings. Of course, users can add coffees/roasters as well. I wrote a web scraper on the backend that automatically goes out to roasters' websites (Intelligentsia, Stumptown, Blue Bottle, Terroir, etc) and every night to keep listings up to date, including prices and direct links to buy from the roaster's store. Users can rate, tag, and share coffees from the app as well as locate nearby shops and roasters. The original idea was an Untappd (beer) for coffees and was born out of a want to keep track of the coffees I'd tried and what I thought of them.

Developer of Caffeine (Android/iOS) here.

Untappd for coffee