There is no denying the growing popularity of craft beer in America and the growing numbers of craft brewers expanding the market to meet that demand. Last year alone there were 2,483 craft breweries/and brewpubs in America, with 409 breweries/brewpubs opened. If statistics are to be believed, this year should see this type of growth continue.

For those of us who enjoy craft beer we’re enjoying the golden age of American brewing, and it’s both a blessing and a curse. How do we keep track of all the delicious beer pouring in to the marketplace? How do we know what to drink? How do we know what’s available in our area? Well, the simple and overused answer is there’s an app for that. But wading through the thousands of beer related apps in both the iOS app store and the Google Play store can be a daunting task. Who wants to spend good money on a crappy app that was thrown together just to profit from the craft beer craze (and there are a lot of these). So I’ve done a bit of the leg work for you and offer my favorite most useful and best of all free craft beer-related apps.