For every brew, the app offers descriptions that are often from the brewery, so they can be a bit boosterish. (“The result will surely be a welcome workout for your taste buds,” gushes the Deadlift description.)

Beer enthusiasts will also make good use of the data that winks at them from the description page, like the alcohol content and statistics on a beer’s color and bitterness.

BeerCloud also offers to help you find a bottle at a local store or pub, but for most people this is a tease because the company’s database (which is also available online at GreatBrewers.com) includes only eight states and the District of Columbia. New York and Wisconsin are included, but not California or Nevada, the state that drinks the most beer per capita.

Users in those states have even more incentive to download Find Craft Beer, which does precisely what its name implies. The app’s home screen invites you to enter a location and tweak the settings so the search results are more targeted to your preferences. The search results can include brew pubs, breweries, beer bars, beer stores or homebrew stores.

Beer Map is similar. It has a slightly less user-friendly interface, but unlike Find Craft Beer, Beermap lets you post reviews of establishments.

Neither app lets you search for a specific beer as BeerCloud does. But realistically speaking, no app can hope to be truly comprehensive in this respect. Microbreweries produce craft beers in such small batches that an automated location service would have great difficulty tracking inventories of every brew with much accuracy.