The Beer Judge – Mobile App

About This Project

The Beer Judge is a mobile application to allow users to create a record of beer they are drinking with very little typing. My goal was to make it easy to create descriptions and a record of great (or awful) beers on the fly using mostly your thumb. As a BJCP-trained beer judge, I am familiar what beer tasting information users want to record, and make it quick and easy to do, in an organized, logical manner. Strong key colors are used for each of the sections for clarity: Golden-orange for aroma, zinc-chromate green for flavor, and burgundy-mauve representing appearance.

This application divides judging beer into three categories: Aroma, Flavor, and Appearance. After creating a new beer (with or without all the supporting technical data beer geeks love), a user simply taps on tiles of the characteristics they perceive, and set a simple slider for the value of each. For example: low – high; cloudy – clear; faint – strong.

When the user is satisfied with all their sensory notes and the beer is saved, a report is generated with graphical representations of the sensory information, as well as a written “review” of the beer. The review verbiage is generated based on all the criteria and values selected. This review can be exported or shared on social media. Using this app, anyone can write a beer review like a pro.