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News, insights, and stories from the world of beer.

13 December 2023

The Curious case of IBU

IBU in beer IBU, or international bitterness units, is a measure of the bitterness in beer. IBU is calculated by measuring the amount of alpha acids in the hops used to brew the beer. Alpha acids are...

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15 September 2023

Carlsberg and Heineken – Probably the worst big lagers in Europe

The lager category not only commands the largest market share in Europe but also reigns as the most-rated beer style on the Pint Please beer app. Dominated by industry giants, this category sees...

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30 June 2023

Beer trends of Q2/2023: NEIPA climbs to the top

The Pint Please is back with an interesting twist in statistics for the second quarter of 2023. This blog post will discuss the newly added beers to the Pint Please app and the shifting power...

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21 June 2023

Best-rated IPAs and NEIPAs of 2023

When it comes to India Pale Ale (IPA) and New England India Pale Ale (NEIPA), 2023 has been a remarkable year. Craft brewers around the world have been pushing boundaries, creating stunning examples...

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6 June 2023

Best-rated beers of May 2023

Raise your glass and get ready to discover the best-rated beers globally in May 2023, based on the reviews of discerning beer lovers using the Pint Please beer app. We ve divided our list into two...

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1 June 2023

Online Beershop Guide

Are you tired of scouring your local stores for the perfect brew? Look no further, because the world of online beer shopping is at your fingertips. Just like ordering anything else from the web,...

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23 May 2023

Best-rated beers in the UK of 2023

When it comes to beer, the United Kingdom boasts a vibrant and diverse beer culture. From traditional ales to innovative craft brews, the UK has something to offer every beer enthusiast. In this blog...

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5 May 2023

Nokian Brewery: How Pint Please helped them create a top-rated beer and keep tabs on the competition

At Pint Please, we re dedicated to helping beer lovers discover new brews and share their thoughts on their favourite beers. Our app allows users to rate beers and get personalised recommendations...

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5 May 2023

Vive la Bière: Ranking the best brews in France for the first four months of 2023

In recent years, France has become a hotbed of microbreweries producing unique and flavorful beers. To help you navigate the vast array of options, we ve compiled a list of the best beers in France...

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25 April 2023

IPA still reigns supreme: Pint Please app’s analysis of Q1/2023 beer releases

The Pint Please app has once again brought exciting statistics from the first quarter of 2023. In this blog post, we ll go over the beers added to the app, as well as the most popular beer styles and...

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12 April 2023

Beer world clocks – When is beer drunk the most

We have delved into the beer reviews made in the Pint Please app over the past year and discovered the users beer habits. In this blog post, we share exciting findings and reveal the secrets of the...

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29 March 2023

Easter beers, please!

Spring has sprung, and what better way to celebrate than with Easter beers? From mutton to chocolate eggs, traditional Easter dishes are perfectly paired with a cold brew. So, we did some digging in...

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14 March 2023

The Best-Rated Hops and Beer Styles of 2023 So Far

Wondering what the most popular beer styles and hops of the new beer releases for 2023 are? Look no further! We ve compiled a comprehensive list of the top trends in beer for the months of January...

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28 February 2023

Most Popular Beer Styles and ABVs of The New Beer Releases

Pint Please saw over 37,000 new beers and drinks added in 2022, with microbreweries contributing the majority. IPAs, New England IPAs, and sours were the most popular styles, and the average alcohol...

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16 February 2023

Is low-alcohol January a thing?

Dry January is an annual challenge where people abstain from alcohol for the entire month. This challenge has become increasingly popular over the years. We analysed the drinking data from Pint...

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31 January 2023

World’s Best Beers And Breweries

The beer year 2022 is now in the past. Let s check the world s best beers and breweries based on the beer ratings in Pint Please. Beer drinkers around the world rate their beers in the Pint Please...

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14 October 2022

Beer profiles updated – Hops & malts

Hops and malts. One of the most important ingredients of the beer! Our recent update introduced ability to add several new information to beers. These include Hops Malts IBU (International Bitter...

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31 August 2022

Ukrainian Beers Gaining Celebrity at the Moment

What are the most popular Ukrainian beer brands right now? –Maybe you can already find these Ukrainian beers from your local store or pub. Many beer breweries around the world have been producing...

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26 August 2022

Imperial or Double? – Strong Beer Styles Never Go Out of Vogue

Strong beer styles are extremely appreciated, which is shown also in the beer reviews of Pint Please. The most highly rated beers tend to be Belgian Strong Ales, Imperial or Double IPAs or New...

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19 August 2022

CAMRA Brings Real People and Real Ale Together in the UK – Demanding Quality Real Ale

As you may already know, CAMRA is one of the most successful consumer organisations across Europe. It’s in charge of the many beer festivals and other happenings around the British beer culture in...

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9 August 2022

Summer beer photo contest winners

#summerbeer22 photo contest was running during July in Pint Please app. If you tagged your beer post in Pint Please with #summerbeer22 you could win some very cool Pint Please merchandise. Over...

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5 August 2022

<strong>Beer in Numbers – Some Topical Beer Stats &amp; Facts</strong>

As Pint Please just crossed the magical threshold of five million reviews, we decided to collect together more beer statistics and records for you to share. Beer is a quite old invention that is said...

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1 July 2022

Forget About the IPAs – Here Comes the IPL

Already familiar with IPLs? Here’s what India Pale Lagers are all about and why we are so enthusiastic about them. As the title says, IPL is in someway like a German cousin (that has since lived in...

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1 July 2022

Take a photo and win!

Summer is probably the best time to taste some awesome brews! While you re enjoying your favourite beer you can also attend the great #summerbeer22 photo contest on Pint Please. How it works? Drink a...

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23 June 2022

Best Beer and Food Pairings to Enjoy in the Summer Season

At least if you’re on your vacation, there should be plenty of time to put effort on the dinner table. But how to choose the right kind of beer as a pairing for food? We’ve collected together a...

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17 June 2022

Picks from the Beer Festival Calendar for the Summer of &#8217;22 in the UK

Summer is already here, and so are the beer festivals. Here are some picks of the long-waited festivals in the UK that will all make your mouth watered. Glasgow Craft Beer Festival8th — 9th July....

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10 June 2022

It&#8217;s Time to Fall in Love With a Lager Beer – Find Your Perfect Match for Summer!

Lager must be one of the most controversial beer styles. Same time appreciated, with a hundreds years of history, and especially when hopped with noble varieties, but at the same time neglected and...

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3 June 2022

Summertime Brings New Seasonal Beer Releases

Schools are soon out for summer, and it’s time to take a look at the upcoming beer releases. What’s new on the summer beer selection? Here are the freshest ones of the newly launched beer releases...

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31 May 2022

Problems with logging in to Pint Please using Facebook?

Logging in to Pint Please with Facebook is not currently working. We are very sorry about this and are working with Facebook to find a solution. We assure you that ALL your Pint Please data is safe...

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27 May 2022

Una Cerveza, Por Favor – Where Do the Best Spanish Beers Come From?

What would be a better country to find a perfect beer for summer than Spain? In the sunny Iberia people are used to produce beers that go well with hot temperatures and sunny beachside. Beer is an...

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13 May 2022

Pint Please at Brew//LDN beer festival

We went to the BrewLDN beer festival in London and what an event it was! Two days of pure beer mayhem and awesome beers. BrewLDN is one of the biggest craft beer festivals in United Kingdom. It hosts...

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4 May 2022

How to Get Started with Pint Please

If you’re a new or becoming a Pint Please user, here you’ll find some general instructions to use the application. Pint Please is an app made for beer lovers. It helps you find good pints of beer and...

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28 April 2022

How to Use Taste Experience in Pint Please

New feature on Pint Please app will be launched next week in the UK. Here’s what it is about. A new feature called Taste Experience will be launched next week on Pint Please in the UK. It will...

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14 April 2022

Interview with Beer Connoisseur Jane Peyton – What&#8217;s Currently Happening in the British Beer Culture?

The founder of the School of Booze and a beer sommelier Jane Peyton answered to our questions about what s going on in Britain after the two long years of pandemia. She s also providing for all Pint...

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7 April 2022

The Best British IPAs: The Modern and the Traditional Ones

As IPA-style originated in England, it’s easy to agree that the most original IPAs still come from the UK. History of this citrusy bitter ale is nowadays well-known, thanks to its renaissance in the...

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1 April 2022

Beer Geek&#8217;s Guide to Sour – Beer That Makes Your Gums Tingle

There s this one beer style that nine out of ten dentists wouldn’t recommend. Sour beers are still very popular, and we do recommend them. There are in total five different categories for sour beers...

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24 March 2022

Beer Geek’s Guide to NEIPA: The Top 20 Best NEIPAs Worldwide

New England style IPA has become one of the hot and trendy styles of the beer world in the last few years. To celebrate NEIPAs success we’ve collected together the statistics of the best NEIPAs...

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17 March 2022

The Top 20 Best-Rated Irish Beers to Celebrate Saint Patrick&#8217;s Day

Guinness Draught Stout is the typical choice as a festive drink for Saint Patrick’s Day. But if you’re looking for alternative choices, here are our Pint Please statistics of the best-rated and most...

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10 March 2022

Beer Glossary to Boost Your Rating Skills

In addition to leaving just a numeral rating in the Pint Please app, you can also formulate written beer reviews. We collected a bunch of terms as a glossary to help you do that. Normally the...

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3 March 2022

Beer Geek&#8217;s Guide to Stout and Porter

Is there seriously any difference between stouts and porters? Which one of these two styles is more appreciated according to the beer enthusiasts? It’s easy to assume that there’s no difference...

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24 February 2022

Divine and Silky Smooth Imperial Stouts – The Top 20 Best-Rated Estonian Beers

This time we’ll take a look at the statistics of Estonia and find out what kind of beer is a Sauna Ale. Raise your hand, if you’ve ever tasted an Estonian beer! Well, there’s only 1,3 million...

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17 February 2022

A Country for Ale Aficionados – The Top 20 Best-Rated British Beers

The United Kingdom is indeed a country of ale. Last year’s top 20 stats only include one bottom-fermented beer. The best-rated and the most popular British beers nowadays are mostly IPAs. Pub culture...

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10 February 2022

Pils or Hefeweizen? – The Top 20 Best-Rated German Beers

Germany is obviously a traditional beer country whose national beer styles and breweries are popular and still, after centuries, serving their purpose. Let s look at the Pint Please statistics and...

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4 February 2022

The Top 20 Best-Rated French Beers

What beer styles or breweries come to your mind when talking about French beers? It’s commonly known that France is THE wine country, but beer isn’t underrated there either. Actually the most popular...

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28 January 2022

The Best Non-Alcoholic Beers for 2022

Which are the most popular non-alcoholic beers and other beverages according to Pint Please users? And why are the non-alcoholic beverages so popular right now? The markets of non-alcoholic beers and...

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14 January 2022

<strong>The Best Beers and Breweries of 2021</strong>

Before rushing into a new year of new beers and new opportunities, it’s time to put together statistics of the past year. In 2021 the beer enthusiasts of Pint Please App did a huge job rating more...

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17 September 2021

Beer database is live

We have been working hard at the Pint Please office to bring the Pint Please s great beer database live on the web. There s currently over 250 000 beers listed in Pint Please and tens of thousands of...

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5 May 2021

Pint Please level update

We have made an update to the level system in Pint Please. This is the ranking system where you users progress by collecting Pintcoins and advancing in different levels. Origin When we originally...

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8 April 2021

Are you a Pint Please Super User?

In Pint Please, everyone can create new beers, breweries, and places but not everyone can modify these profiles once they ve been created. To do that, you have to be Super User. And right now, we are...

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24 February 2021

Best beers and breweries 2020

The year 2020 was quite terrible for many of us. There s just no way around it. But let s take a one more look at 2020, let s see how the year looked for Pint Please. Here s some trivia before the...

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7 September 2020

Great beer offers with Taste Experiences

Would you like a great pint with special price? We have introduced a new feature called Taste Experience in Pint Please. Taste Experiences are exclusive offers which you get from selected pubs,...

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27 April 2020

Introducing our users: ORSON

Where are you from and where do you live now?I´m from Finland and I live in Kuopio. Not the best beer town in the world but we do our best. 2. What is your Pint Please user name? Orson 3. How old are...

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20 April 2020

Help needed!

Pint Please needs your support! Corona virus has hit also on us. We recently launched a new feature in Pint Please called Taste Experience. This allows users to get discounts in pubs and beer shops...

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17 January 2020

Best beers and breweries from 2019

2019 is now finished. It has ended, like the last pint you ve drunk in the bar before leaving home: hopefully with good memories. The year 2019 was a good year for Pint Please. Pint Please has...

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20 November 2019

Introducing our users: GREY

1. Where are you from and where do you live now? I was born in Helsinki, Finland where I also live. 2. What is your Pint Please user name? Grey. A pseudonym. One of the features that I like in Pint...

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6 November 2019

Introducing our users: EDWARDTK

Where are you from and where do you live now? I’m from Haukipudas, and nowadays I live in Oulu with my family. What is your Pint Please user name? EDWARDTK detailed reviews with awesome pics What is...

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1 November 2019

My statistics are now available in Pint Please

So you re a seasoned IPA enthusiast? Or a fashionable sour connoisseur? That s cool and all, but is that actually true? Do you even know? Maybe you re a closet lager drinker but just don t know it....

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25 September 2019

German county sticker

Germany has a long and successful history in brewing. In Germany, you can find some of the oldest breweries in the whole world like Weltenburger Klosterbrauerei (founded in 1050) and Bayerische...

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18 September 2019

Our sticker for Imperial IPA

(Almost) everyone love India Pale Ales. But what about their big brother, Imperial IPA (Often labelled as Double IPA. And we are including Triple IPAs here as well)? Imperial IPAs are some of the...

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5 September 2019

Beer review: Põhjala Cocobänger

Autumn is in the air. Nights here in Northern-Finland are getting more colder and darker. Personally, I don t like the cold, dark and wet weather we have this time of year. But what I do like, is...

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4 September 2019

Introducing our user: God-Emperor&#8217;s Wraith Form

Pint Please is not just an app. It s a worldwide community. Over which you can find information and recommendations for good beers but also like-minded beer lovers. Some of them you can find in your...

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28 August 2019

Beer style and the sticker: Brown Ale

Brunette, the colour of the hair and colour of the Brown Ale, kind of History of Brown Ales dates back to 17th century England. In the beginning, Brown Ale wasn t really a beer style. Rather the term...

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24 July 2019

Best beers and breweries during the first six months of 2019

Hello there you magnificent beer lover! As you might have notice, we started publishing monthly stats about best breweries and beers in our social media pages (twitter and facebook). So what beers...

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19 June 2019

London &#8211; The best place to drink beer in the world

LONDON is a great place for a drink. A stroll around one of the city’s more unbuttoned districts Soho, perhaps, or Shoreditch demonstrates that, despite being constantly bombarded with health...

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15 May 2019

How beer is made?: Brewing

Last time we posted blog text about beer ingredients. And now is time to write about the brewing process itself. I m not going to make this overly complicated. The point is showing the fundamentals...

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17 March 2019

What is beer?: Ingredients

Ah, beer. One of the oldest and most widely consumed alcoholic beverages in the world. It comes in many strength, colors and with multiple different styles and taste. What an awesome invention by the...

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9 March 2019

Pub review: Crown and Anchor

Last weekend I popped into the Crown and Anchor, a delightful pub perched along Brixton Road that comes into its own on warm, sunny afternoons (thank global warming for that in February!). The Crown...

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8 February 2019

New country stickers!

We have published 20 new country stickers for all of you hoppy explorers who are not afraid to try beers from other countries! New stickers which have been created are for example Cuba, Bulgaria,...

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18 January 2019

Beer review: Põhjala Odravein

Our friend Servaali brought as a Barleywine from Estonian brewery Põhjala. The beer has a hefty ABV of 12% and it uses Magnum, Cascade and Goldings as hops (IBUs). Malts are Pale malt, Melanoid Malt,...

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20 December 2018

Beer recommendations for Christmas 2018

Ho! Ho! Ho! It s time for the Christmas holidays. Each year in good time before the holidays beers labeled as Christmas beer, Christmas ale etc. emerges at the shelves of liquor stores and grocery...

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12 December 2018

The one and only: The Alchemist

The Alchemist. Just a name of the brewery is enough for most craft beer lovers to get shivers- in the good way i mean! Especially their IPAs are on many beer drinker bucket list and for a good...

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16 November 2018

Beer review: Selassie by Omnipollo

Omnipollo, this wonderful Swedish gypsy brewery makes some of the best and most unique strong and dark ales there are. Especially their Imperial stouts and porters are well known all over the globe....

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18 September 2018

Help! We&#8217;ve got bugs!

Pint Please 2.0 was released a week ago for Android and it s a complete reconstruction of the old school beer app format. The app has been built from the ground up which means it has new bugs and we...

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10 September 2018

The new Pint Please Shop is open!

Enter the new Pint Please Shop by clicking here! We re extremely happy to announce that our new Pint Please Shop for merchandise is now open through Spreadshirt. What this means is that all our...

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7 September 2018

Pint Please 2.0 is out now for Android!

Pint Please 2.0 is here for Android! You can download it here. iOS users get ready for an update later this year. This is what it looks like: So as you can see we ve gone with a complete rebuild for...

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24 May 2018

Fix for barcode scanner and location problems in Huawei phones

Google Play Services component has a bug which breaks the barcode scanner feature in Pint Please for most Huawei Android phones. The bug also affects location features. The bug has been problematic...

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18 December 2017

All I Want For Christmas Is Beer

As Jane Austen never wrote but should have done ‘It is a truth universally acknowledged that a devotee of malt and hops would prefer a selection box of beer for Christmas above any other gift.’ Jane...

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22 November 2017

Stop drinking beer wrong!

In this latest fake news story a study made in Oxford University shows all the benefits of beer and how drinking it is not taking full advantage of all benefits. Beer is good for your hair, beer is...

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20 November 2017

After 200 beers you&#8217;re left with&#8230;

a heck of a hangover and 200 bottle caps. Once you combine those two you may end up creating a stop motion bottle cap animation. Here s a piece of art dedicated to the love of beer. Cheers!

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15 November 2017

Visiting the Ylikylä Brewery

Ylikylä has an original approach to beer low alcohol beers so you can drink more without getting too drunk and creating beer with just the core ingredients. This suits perfectly with the Kalevala...

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13 November 2017

Visiting the Sonnisaari Brewery

As you may or may not know, Oulu is the hometown of the creators of Pint Please. There s nothing we like more than to spread the word of great beer and here s a brewery we recommend everyone to check...

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5 October 2017

Visiting an all-organic brewery

Hailuoto is an island next to Oulu (Finland) which is the home town of Pint Please. It s a small island with a small population but the island has a brewery called Hailuodon Panimo (Hailuoto Brewery)...

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1 September 2017

We added 100 new stickers!

Hooray the new stickers are here! Pint Please Beer App just released 100 new stickers that should give everyone at least a 100 new excuses to justify drinking quality beer from around the world....

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4 August 2017

It&#8217;s International Beer Day! Review a beer today for a sticker on Pint Please.

International Beer Day is arguably the best day of the year when all beer lovers join forces celebrating in pubs, breweries and homes all around the globe. We at Pint Please strongly advice you to...

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21 April 2017

New stickers!

We have launched a new set of awesome stickers for Pint Please. Following stickers have been added: Country stickers Spain (highly requested!) Sweden Netherlands Japan Iceland Poland New Zealand...

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10 March 2017

Pint Please! T-shirts, hoodies and beanies available.

EDIT: These shirts have run out. You can get new Pint Please merchandise from the Pint Please Shop! Where did you get those? That s what we constantly hear when we are wearing our Pint Please shirts...

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18 January 2017

Beer Yoga &#8211; Why not?

There s a new yoga style for the rest of us. Beer yoga combines centuries-old therapies for body, mind and soul. Yoga has been a healing, energizing and relaxing practice for humans for ages. Beer...

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17 January 2017

A brief history of IPA

What is IPA? Maybe you ve heard beer drinkers using the term but didn t quite know what they were talking about. In this post we will take a look at the interesting story behind the popular IPA beer...

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22 December 2016

Top 5 Beers With Christmas Food

Christmas is the season for feasting and the food we eat is often rich and heavy and needs a liquid lift to lighten the texture. Beer, with its carbonation (CO2 is a natural by-product of...

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19 December 2016

Visiting Põhjala Brewery in Tallinn, Estonia

Estonia is also under a craft beer boom and new breweries are popping up. One of the most famous of the new breweries from recent years is Põhjala. We visited Põhjala brewery in Tallinn, the capital...

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1 December 2016

Ultrahack 2016 &#8211; Beer, digital displays and beacons were a winning combo

This year we had the pleasure to join the Ultrahack 2016 event. Ultrahack is a hackathon where computer programmers and other people involved in software development come together for a short period...

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4 November 2016

Top 5 Craft Beer Pubs in London series – Craft Beer Company -Clerkenwell

London’s craft beer scene is booming and there are growing numbers of great pubs in the city. Jane Peyton wrote us a guide to the best craft beer pubs in London. Pub number three is Craft Beer...

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28 October 2016

Top 5 Craft Beer Pubs in London series – The Harp

London’s craft beer scene is booming and there are growing numbers of great pubs in the city. Jane Peyton wrote us a guide to the best craft beer pubs in London. Pub number two is The Harp. Trafalgar...

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21 October 2016

Top 5 Craft Beer Pubs in London series &#8211; The Rake

London s craft beer scene is booming and there are growing numbers of great pubs in the city. Jane Peyton wrote us a guide to the best craft beer pubs in London. Pub number one is The Rake. The Rake,...

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19 October 2016

Jane Peyton introduction

Hello Pint Pleasers! My name is Jane Peyton beer sommelier, writer, author of several non-fiction books included ‘Beer o’ Clock’ and ‘Drink: A Tippler’s Miscellany’ founder of the School of Booze,...

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29 September 2016

The Alma. London&#8217;s best movie themed pub?

This blog post begins a series of featured pubs. The pubs we present in this series will be ones that stand out from the others. Ones that serve good beer in a good atmosphere with a good attitude....

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9 September 2016

TOP 3 beer-related retro games

I started my video game experiences with Commodore 64 and arcade machines at the 80s. Life wasn t too hectic at the time, and everything related to forbidden things, like beer, was naturally highly...

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8 September 2016

World&#8217;s oldest cooking recipe

This post will begin a series of posts that talk about some interesting historical facts about beer. One post does not a series make, so hopefully I ll get around to writing more of these later on,...

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2 September 2016

Best and worst Swedish beers according to Finns

This blog post will take a serious look at what the Finnish Pint Please users think about Swedish beers. The data is collected from reviews made in Finland about beers that were made in Sweden. You...

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1 September 2016

Tell your friend about Pint Please. Nerd shall thank you!

Making a beer app is the coolest job I ve ever had. It s tough and fun working in the software industry and full of surprises. I m responsible for the design in Pint Please beer app but I also do a...

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1 September 2016

Using Bluetooth LE iBeacons on iOS &amp; iPhone

The problem Pint Please user often has a following problem. How to get right beer recommendations at the right time? Let s say that we have a user called Matt. He has been using Pint Please for some...

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17 August 2016

We have a #summerbeer photo contest winner!

#Summerbeer photo contest was active during July and the beginning of August 2016. We received hundreds of tasty photos about beer and summer. Thank you everybody who drank beer and shot photos. You...

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15 August 2016

New Pint Please version for Android and iPhone

We have released the latest Pint Please version today for iPhone (v. 1.4.8) and Android (v. 1.6.2). When creating a new brewery, it s now possible to also set the home country of the brewery....

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