Oktoberfest exposed a flaw in how we read beer. * Malt and roast are now two different things. A Märzen tastes of bread, toast and toffee. A stout tastes of coffee and char. They had been sharing one line on the Beer DNA chart, which is why a Festbier could come out with almost no malt at all. Scoring the Munich beers by hand is what gave it away. * Every style now starts from a reference range drawn from the brewing guidelines, so a beer begins where its style should be, and its own details move it from there. * Your saved taste profile is carried over to the new scale the first time you open the app. * New style filters: Brett, California Common, Fruit Beer, Pumpkin, Wild Ale and more. Around 1,600 beers now sort into a style that didn't before, and nothing is left uncategorised. * The rating prompt stays inside the app, and only ever asks once.

Bug Fixes

Finding beers • You no longer need the umlaut. Typing "hofbrau" found one beer out of fifteen and we have about a thousand beers carrying umlauts. Beer alerts • You are now only told once. If the notification reached you, the banner stays quiet about that sighting. • You can choose push, or in the app only. The venues list • "No venues in this area" no longer appears when a filter is the reason the list is empty. Each filter explains itself instead. • Unearthed, Favourites and Pick show a banner with a tap to exit, as Ghost mode and At-risk always have. Searching by location • After searching one place you can now search another. With all eight Quick Picks full, the save prompt used to take over the sheet and remove the Search button. • Saving a place is one pill, rather than a list of all eight saved areas. Pub closure warnings you can trust • Every closure risk score now names where it came from, and where that source has no entry we show nothing rather than inventing one. • The same score used to read "Struggling" in one place and "Under Pressure" in another on the same screen. One pub, one description now. • Your watch and your phone agree again. The watch kept its own copy of the score bands and was a level out, so a pub at 62 said one thing on your wrist and another in your hand. Under the bonnet • Opening the app no longer re-downloads the whole beer catalogue when there's already a fresh copy on the phone. • Beer alerts let you choose how they arrive, and the alert on your phone matches the one in the app.

Scan is now called Radar — The tab was always a radar: the same dial, the same sweep, and the name everything else already used for it. Beers replaces the Discover tab — Live tap lists grouped by pub, each under its name in gold and how far it is. Browsing for undiscovered venues is gone; adding a pub by hand isn't. Unearthed Blips — The Radar automatically adds undiscovered pubs it finds as you move, ringed amber for their first 24 hours. Figments — Some pubs only ever existed in fiction. They now sit on the radar as a hollow purple ring rather than the filled dot a closed pub gets, so a film set is never mistaken for a lost local, and Ghost Hunter counts them apart from the real dead. Harry's Bar, from The Day the Earth Caught Fire, is the first — the category is built to take more. Create-a-Crawl moved to Venues, Tap Roulette to the radar dial — Both now sit where you would look for them: crawls with the pubs, the wheel with the thing that spins. Curated Collections — Sets of pubs held together by something other than distance: a brewery's old tied houses, a vanished London chain, a guide from 1999. Each opens on a map with a tally you tick off over weeks rather than in an evening, and the ones that have closed open into their ghost. One freshness rule everywhere — "On tap" means seen in the last seven days, on every screen and on the website. A beer eight days old used to count on one surface and not on another. On the wrist — The Pick triangle follows the crown: widen the range and it moves to the best pub reachable at that range.

What's New in 1.13 Apple Watch companion Install PINtPOINT on your Apple Watch for a wrist-mounted radar showing pubs around you, plus a compass that walks you to any one you tap. Twist the Digital Crown to adjust your radius. Tap a blip for live bearing and distance, or hand off to Apple Maps for turn-by-turn directions. Tap "N Pubs" for a scrollable list by distance - gold venues are inside your current radius, white are further out. Compare beers side by side New comparison tool in the beer detail view lets you quickly see how two beers differ across flavour axes, with clear highlights on what sets them apart. Ghost Hunter toggle Ghost Hunter is now a simple toggle - no separate download or hidden setting. Turn it on to see every historical pub in the database, with a purple banner clearly showing when you're viewing closed venues. Faster beer logging Search the catalogue directly when adding a beer to a venue’s tap list. If the beer is already in our database, just tap the match - no need to hunt down the Untappd URL. Nearby A-Z gets a third sort mode Cycle between Distance → A-Z → Recently Added (calendar icon). Great for quickly spotting the latest user-added venues in PINtPOINT. New target icon on PINtPOINT WORLD Stops the auto-spin and centres the globe on your location. Tap again to resume drift. Plus more countries now surface as tap-to-zoom pills once they cross the 5-pub threshold. Performance & polish • Faster cold starts in busy areas with significantly less data usage. • The app now opens on your last-known location rather than defaulting to Trafalgar Square while GPS resolves. • Tap any brewery name to see all their beers in one place.

Behind-the-scenes: added crash reporting so we hear about problems before you have to tell us.

What's New in 1.12 • Pick of the Pubs — green triangle on the radar for the best board of beers near you, with a card telling you why we picked it • Radar legend chips are filters — Pick, Faves, @Risk, Ghosts, Unknown — tap to isolate • 500+ ghost pubs (closed and demolished) built in — no download • My Kind of Pub & My Kind of Beer — Hate→Love questionnaires with an analogue taste gauge • Beer Alerts rebuilt — nearest tap shown in-app for every watched beer, push once it lands within 15 miles

Radar - New "undiscovered venues" layer — toggle under the radar reveals hollow amber rings for pubs Discover has found but PINtPOINT hasn't catalogued. Discover - Untappd matcher restored. Every FSQ venue and every fresh area can now earn an Untappd match again. - Trust chip merged — single teal Untappd via Google chip replaces two competing badges. - FSQ venues can earn the trust chip for the first time (previously structurally unreachable). World / map - Auto-derived city clusters, - WORLD STATS from server-side per-country queries.

Recommendations • "Why this pint?" chips on Best Pint Next — see exactly why a beer is matched to you (Hoppy match · Pale Ale profile · Fresh tap data · Close by). • Fresh sightings outrank stale ones at the same venue. • Draft and cask preferred over bottle/can. Venues • Freshness pills next to venue names: Fresh · Yesterday · 3d ago · Needs refresh. • Chain hotels (Premier Inn, Travelodge etc.) no longer pollute pub discovery. Sip or Skip • Beer-specific descriptors ("Pine, dry finish, citrus" instead of generic "aromatic hops"). • Family-aware swipe axes — Stouts show roastiness, IPAs show hop- forward character, etc. • Refinement runs include real catalogue beers from your nearby venues.

• New splash screen/app icon. • Discover: only Untappd-matched venues by default — every card is one-tap addable. Two-step widen to all bars, then hotels & restaurants. • Smarter Add: niche pubs Google doesn't index now get found via Untappd name + locality + proximity verification. • Share any venue: tappable link with rich preview card. Opens the app at that venue for users who have it installed. • Beer label scanner picks up beer style more reliably.

PINtPRESS now reads inside the app — full essays, postcards and notes accessible without leaving the radar. Find it via Settings → About → PINtPRESS. Tap Swap on any PINtDEXTER recommendation to cycle through alternatives. Recommendations no longer pull in beers last seen more than 10 days ago — no more "great-on-paper but already gone" picks. Troubled Pub Mode: per-venue severity labels softened — Stable, Under pressure, Struggling, At risk, Critical. The source attribution to Ben Guerin's website stays untouched. Recommendation card now stays visible (in a muted state) when no fresh match is available, instead of disappearing — clearer signal that the feature tried.

NEW • Beer Scan / Read the Label — vision-powered identification of cans, bottles and pump clips. Auto-links matches to Untappd. Save & Scan Next flow for logging a session quickly. • Hall of Fame — curated archive crawls including the London Monopoly Board, Bermondsey Beer Mile and Orange Line Crawl. • Create-a-Crawl: Nearest Neighbours mode — user-led route building, pick from three options at each step. • Tap Trumps: 9:16 Story-format share cards (Instagram / TikTok ready). • Ghost Hunter: Demolished Mode filter + Ghost Tap Trumps surfacing the venue's last-ever Untappd check-in. IMPROVED • PINtDEXTER now surfaces Best Pint Next above the unknown-venue list. Smarter ABV scoring around session-pint psychology. H2H signal feeds the recommendation engine more carefully. • Beer detail page deep-links to the Untappd page when an ID is known.

7-day free trial for new subscribers. Bug fixes for subscription handling.

Bug fixes and improved recommendations.

PINtDEXTER, our recommendation engine, now suggests beers by actual flavour, not just style. TUNeDEXTER lets you fine-tune your Beer DNA in real time across bitterness, sweetness, fruitiness, roast, tartness, strength and body, with bug fixes and polish across the app for a smoother experience.

Unified Search & Filters One gold magnifying glass across every screen. Set your destination, search radius, and beer styles from a single filter sheet with configurable Quick Picks for your favourite areas. International Discovery Discover venues worldwide with smarter scoring — beer-led venues surface first, restaurants and non-pubs filtered out. Now supports international venue terms like cervecería, biergarten and chiringuito. Beer Freshness Indicators Green/amber/red dots on tap lists show how recent each check-in is — know at a glance whether a beer is likely still on tap. Create-a-Crawl Improvements Google Maps walking route handoff now works internationally. Share your crawl itinerary with venue names, distances, and walk times. Favourites Toggle Tap the heart on the Venues tab to filter to saved venues only. Quick Access Tap Roulette on the Venues tab, Sip or Skip on the Beers tab — key features are now one tap away. Pub Culture Ghost Mode and Troubled Pub Mode now in Settings → Pub Culture. Cleaner, more logical navigation.

Bug Fixes

FOURSQUARE DISCOVER • PINtPOINT now searches both Google Places and Foursquare to find pubs, bars and breweries near you. • Source badges (G, FSQ) show where each venue was found. TAP ROULETTE • For indecisive people. Let fate choose - spin the roulette to pick a random nearby venue and even a beer. • Found under settings. SCAN BOTTLES & BEER CANS • Scan a barcode to identify beers using Open Food Facts and add them to the PINtPOINT database — helping build the beer catalogue for everyone to access • Track scanned beers in your personal My Beers collection in Settings/My Stuff PINtDEXTER RECOMMENDATION ENGINE • Tuned by Sip or Skip — swipe through beers Tinder-style to build your taste profile. Love IPAs? Hate sours? Now PINtPOINT knows. • My Kind of Beer — find your taste profile under Settings/My Stuff. See what styles you lean towards, refine it any time. CREATE-A-CRAWL IMPROVEMENTS • Crawl Map View. Once your route is generated, switch between list and map view with a single tap. • Open in Google Maps. Tap "Google Maps" on any crawl to open the full route with all stops as waypoints. SMART SEARCH BARS • Search bars across the app now automatically detects Untappd URLs — paste a venue or brewery link to add it instantly • Works on the Discover, Venues, and Nearby tabs LOCATION IMPROVEMENTS • Tapping the "Viewing" banner now opens location search instead of resetting • Dedicated reset button to return to your current GPS location • Improved compass map visibility DELETE MY DATA • Delete all your data in-app — Settings → About & Legal → Privacy • Removes saved venues, visit history, beer watch list and all cloud backups permanently

Bug fixes and improvements. • Fixed globe view to show full international venue coverage • Venue data persistence improvements