How many times have you been to a bar and seen a beer list where none of the drinks sounds familiar? The beer market is becoming more and more complex and sophisticated thanks to the booming of microbreweries in US and abroad, and keeping up with this fast-paced growing industry is not easy. Well, where there is a problem, there is usually an app to solve it. Let's talk about Sipsnapp.
[ibimage==33199==Medium==https://westjournal.us/breaking-the-code-of-the-beer-menu-video/==self==null]Sipsnapp makes it possible to take a picture of a beer menu from any local bar or restaurant, crop the area with the beers you are interested in and get ratings and opinions written by beer aficionados on your iPhone. The app was officially launched on the App Store on August 15th (Android version is coming) and uses open source Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology and the huge beer database provided by RateBeer.
It is a perfect use case for a mobile phone, the intelligence is all on the network, the mobile phone can perform something that you can’t, at least not efficiently," said Dan Ho, founder and CEO of Sipsnapp.
The company is based in Los Angeles (Culver City) and is doing a soft launch and trying to get feedback to improve the system.
Read more and watch Sipsnapp in action here!
