The Beer Expert

★★★★★ Good, with room for big improvements Great app at the moment with the potential to be awesome. Really good for getting summaries of beer as well as creating a database of what you've tried Once the barcode database is a bit bigger (Australian beers are not well represented there) and there is the ability to sort beers you've rated by rating as well as alphabetically it will be fantastic. Also share to G+ would be good.

★★★★★ Perfect Quick Reference Great for accessing the RateBeer ratings and reviews, as well as tracking my own ratings. Two improvement requests to make it five stars: allow me to clear ratings (for accidental rates) and sort my beers by rating instead of alphabetically. Well worth the money as it stands though!

★★★★★ One Complaint I got this app to keep a list of all the Beers I try and a rating for them. This app allows me to do just that. I have not had a beer yet that couldn't be found in the data base. One and only complaint is that I can't undo a rating. So I have beers on my list that I starred on accident and I have no way to get them off my list.

★★☆☆☆ Seriously flawed This app has a lot of potential. However, some serious flaws prevent it from being very useful. 1. You cannot sort the beers you have rated. This is such a logical function I cannot believe it is not included. If you want to know what beers you have rated 5 stars you are out of luck. 2. You cannot "un-rate" a beer, or remove it from your list. Sometimes a beer has more than one listing, and if you rate the wrong one, you're stuck with it. 3. If you search for a beer name and the results cover more than one page, you cannot scroll to the next page. 4. The app will not reliably connect to the RateBeer site. This is especially frustrating because it only happens with some beers. I can stand in the same spot at the store and pull up some beers but not others. 5. You cannot port your list to another phone. When I go a new phone last year, I lost all of the 200+ ratings I had on my old phone. The owner's suggestion: just enter them all in again. The only real value in this app is to do a quick check when you encounter a new beer to get the stats from RateBeer (ABV, rating, etc.). But since you can't count on it being able to connect, the app is very nearly useless.

★★☆☆☆ Don't waste your money. I purchased this app 2 years ago on my old phone. There is no way to transfer your rated beers to a new device. You can't enter any comments on the beers. Many times descriptions will not load and tell me I don't have an internet connection. There is no Android share feature in this program either. Wish I can get a refund for this app as it clearly looks abandoned by the developers. Get the free Rate Beer app and make an account, save some money and be able to do everything this app cannot.