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The Top 10 Free Beer Related Applications For Your iPhone. In this article, I’ll show you the apps I discovered. Some are social, some practical, and some are for the true beer collector in us all. Whether you need to locate the nearest pub or you just want to rate the brewskis you’ve tasted, there’s something here for you. If you’re of drinking age, you should enjoy this list of the best free beer-related applications for the iPhone. 1. Beerby (rhymes with “nearby”) allows beer drinkers to log and comment on the beers they drink. Beerby’s database consists of over 30,000 beers and, using Foursquare integration, Beerby also allows you to tell friends where you’re drinking and optionally check in with Foursquare at that location. Something to note, as you log your beer at a location, you are also helping to build a database of what beer is available at that spot. 2. Grab Another Beer is another great iPhone app. There are over 7,000 beers to browse through with most breweries in the US and some select imports listed.

Don’t drink? 3. 4. 5. 6. UNITING THE BEER COMMUNITY. Family.gif (GIF Image, 1193x1018 pixels) - Scaled (63%) Stupid People - Ode to Beer. Pabst Blue Ribbon Selling for $44 per Bottle in China (Photo Gallery) – Indyposted. ZOMG! PBR is “Blue Ribbon 1844″ in China and will set you back $44 a bottle. Yes, $44 per bottle. Gawker found this via the beer’s official website. Seems China marketers of the cheapo American beer have embraced the brand and expanded it to give it some panache and even sex appeal. The name Blue Ribbon 1844 is derived from the year the brewery was founded. Chinese media blog Danwei points to an ad for the beer from a business magazine, reading, “It’s not just Scotch that’s put into wooden casks.

The New Yorker‘s Evan Osnos says Blue Ribbon 1844 taps into China’s love of alcohol as a “prime tool for conspicuous consumption” and “the Chinese fondness for trophies and ribbons.”