Awesome!
This is a wonderful app for not only whiskey enthusiasts but all spirit lovers. Comprehensive in expert reviews, cool distillery background info and one of my favorite parts... creating my own list and having the ability to write my own reviews. I own a whiskey bar in Clayton, NC hoping to some how integrate this app into our business and whiskey club. Well done, cheers!
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Great app....but
Content and presentation of the app is great. More recently I can’t connect via wifi. Says no internet connection. Switch to cellular and it works fine. Definitely no issues with the speed of my wifi as it’s running at around 40mbs. Please fix and this is a five star app.
Great but is always down - edit. Not happening anymore.
Edit: It hasn’t done this since I posted this. Maybe they were just doing lost of updates the week I downloaded. Upgrading to 5.
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I really love the app. It has everything I want. But the server is down probably 70% of the time I try to open it and I can’t search or rate anything.
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I really love the app. It has everything I want. But the server is down probably 70% of the time I try to open it and I can’t search or rate anything.
Promising, but huge letdown
This sounded like exactly what I was looking for, track my collection, yes! Get reviews and recommendations too, awesome. Then I installed it and gave it a try. Well, first I tried to give it a try. I really wanted to try out the collection feature, you have to sign up for an account to do that, fair enough. I tried to sign up, got an error that my account failed to create, please try again. I tried several times, always failing. Finally got home and tried through their website, it said my email address was already in use, quick reset password and I can finally log in.
So then I started to try logging some of my whiskies in my collection. I have a lot of independent bottlings and single cask releases, I didn't start with those. I looked up a smaller distiller but for distillery releases, searching for Tomatin. I did find the Carribbean Rum cask release I owned, promising. Then I looked for one of the limited release Cu Bocan bottlings (Cu Bocan are always limited releases), 2 bottles came up. I quickly checked if I could add a bottle, nope.
So I looked for some more mainsream bottles and started adding them. I noticed quickly that strength is listed in proof, not ABV %. Note that US proof and UK proof are not the same. So I decided to push things a bit more and looked for Glenlivet Nadurra, great I find the releases, except these are small batch releases and the batches vary. So I have 2 different versions of the oloroso release, and there's no way to record which I have. There's no way to tell which batch was reviewed by the site, or by other users. This makes any small batch releases useless as there is batch to batch variation (the entire point of small batch releases). There's simply no way to put in a batch number or cask reference.
Looking into the FAQ on their site I found that users simply cannot add a missing bottle. The only way a bottle gets added is if they review it. I get they want to maintain the quality of the listings, and to eliminate duplicates. But, this is a US site, there's tons of whisky releases that are UK-only, or certainly harder to find in the US. If users can't add a bottle then there's no way to put everything you have in a large collection. If it's dependent on them reviewing then if you have bottles that are no longer available then they'll never be added as they won't be able to review them.
I had really high hopes for this app and it's been a complete letdown.
So then I started to try logging some of my whiskies in my collection. I have a lot of independent bottlings and single cask releases, I didn't start with those. I looked up a smaller distiller but for distillery releases, searching for Tomatin. I did find the Carribbean Rum cask release I owned, promising. Then I looked for one of the limited release Cu Bocan bottlings (Cu Bocan are always limited releases), 2 bottles came up. I quickly checked if I could add a bottle, nope.
So I looked for some more mainsream bottles and started adding them. I noticed quickly that strength is listed in proof, not ABV %. Note that US proof and UK proof are not the same. So I decided to push things a bit more and looked for Glenlivet Nadurra, great I find the releases, except these are small batch releases and the batches vary. So I have 2 different versions of the oloroso release, and there's no way to record which I have. There's no way to tell which batch was reviewed by the site, or by other users. This makes any small batch releases useless as there is batch to batch variation (the entire point of small batch releases). There's simply no way to put in a batch number or cask reference.
Looking into the FAQ on their site I found that users simply cannot add a missing bottle. The only way a bottle gets added is if they review it. I get they want to maintain the quality of the listings, and to eliminate duplicates. But, this is a US site, there's tons of whisky releases that are UK-only, or certainly harder to find in the US. If users can't add a bottle then there's no way to put everything you have in a large collection. If it's dependent on them reviewing then if you have bottles that are no longer available then they'll never be added as they won't be able to review them.
I had really high hopes for this app and it's been a complete letdown.
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Doesnt work
Like the idea, but app doesn't work. Randomly closes on my iPhone 5c for no reason every time I go on it.
WHY NO VODKA?
Initially, I liked this app, but as I was building my collection I realised that no vodkas are included. This is a huge failure. Are vodkas not distilled, that they don't belong in this app. Very disappointing. I'm deleting the app forthwith.
Not loading
I've loaded onto a new iPad without success.
Need to create my own collections
Looks promising, DB is much improved, but I need to be able to create my own collections for me to use this eg my shelf, open bottles, tasted etc.
Why release in UK?
This app is fine for the U.S. Market, but absolutely useless for UK - too americanised with MM/DD/YY date format and trying to have a delivery address for whiskey within the hour - erm, no??! Make a UK specific app please, this isn't a good experience.
Great app!
This is a brilliant app for anyone even remotely interested in whiskey!
From the well known to the obscure, all whiskeys are available to view on this useful app! Expert reviews, information, taste graphs and even a price guide; this app makes the sometimes confusing world of whiskeys that much more interesting and easy to navigate!
From the well known to the obscure, all whiskeys are available to view on this useful app! Expert reviews, information, taste graphs and even a price guide; this app makes the sometimes confusing world of whiskeys that much more interesting and easy to navigate!
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