Great Taste of the Midwest User Reviews

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Not good on iPhone

Theres only like 20% of the beers listed on this app. On android there’s all the beers. They Didn’t fix it before the fest.

2025 Version-Not That Good

It’s Wednesday before the brew fest and the functionality is incomplete. The only area in the app the has all the info is the list of beers. Some of the styles are missing, the collaboration station is missing in the booths. And with these missing you really can’t create a personal list. The Android app though works, so I guess I’ll be bringing my work phone.
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Deleted to do and saved beers day of event

I went through and looked up all beers I was interested online and saved the highly rated beers. I checked again the day before event and was fine. Day of event the app logo changed and everything I saved was totally gone. Hours of work for nothing. The good news is the actual event was still awesome.
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Glitchy year after year

This app works kinda. It sometimes deletes your saved lists, sometimes crashes.

Easy to use

App is great for planning

It is what it is

Works well as a partial list. There always seem to be issues with the to-do and map functions.

To-do function is useless

I'd love to use this app, but sitting beside someone using the Android version makes it clear that the iOS version is nearly worthless in comparison. Adding a beer to the to-do list is done via the per beer share button, so it's *possible* but it's so cumbersome I'm not going to bother.

Ok, needs work..

App is great to show what breweries are going to be there and with what brews.

However the "to do list" only works in the android version and not the IOS version. Please please please fix this!!!

NO MAP

We're here at the taste and have no map. No map on the guys iPhone next to me either. The site claims the map is not yet available. If not now then when?! The links react differently on three different phones. On some no link to fav. beer. You really need to go back to work on this.

Data issues

The night before the fest and breweries are showing up in the list three and four times. It's like they loaded the data over the top of the old data instead of clearing the old first.

Not usable

Great idea if it worked. iPhone 6plus. Super buggy.

Great idea - Never really works out

Because of the rush to get this out so close to the event, it's never thoroughly tested by festival goer type people. All kinds of bugs are found and attempted to be corrected in another mad scramble in the hours-days prior and if you spent any time going through the lists of hundreds of breweries or 1000+ beers and thought you were going to be able to use the favorites function or "live" map...forget it. Great for an alpha list of things but the nice printed lists do that just fine and will ultimately be what you use. If you do try this you should wait until late the evening prior to get a cleaner download when there have already been many attempts to fix it.
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This App Licks.

Still broke

Buggy

Pretty sweet app, however, the to do list function doesn't work, only causes app to crash, this fixed, probably would be a five stars

Today's update crashed

The update from June finally fixed the bug and allowed ratings to be retained. This was a feature the has been absent since last year and was greatly needed/appreciated! I use the app when visiting/drinking any Midwest micro-brew.

However, today's update overwrote my database with a zero content app. There are not beers, breweries, styles available.

Please tell me years of drinking data is not lost!
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Many links redirect incorrectly

The UI and usability of the app is great, but many of the links are broken. For example, searching for "three floyds" shows the correct icon but clicking it redirects you to the "3 Sheeps" page. Likewise on the beer search page, you can find "dark lord" but clicking them leads you to completely random beers.
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Just, garbage

If you can get it to run without crashing for 5 minutes, you're lucky. Search feature (pretty important...) is broken. Who made this???

Inoperable

This is early in the game, but the app's useful lifetime is extremely short- one six hour period of the Great Taste beer fest. I downloaded this newbie on an iPad 2 just fine, but it crashes after the logo appears each and every time. It's inoperable.

Doesn't work

Opens briefly and then closes

Disappointed

"Sort by style" shows alpha list. "Sort by alpha" shows the same thing but with Letter headers, even after removal and reinstall. Gave up and just winged it.