Find Craft Beer vs Brine!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Find Craft Beer
Discover craft beer locations near you using your device's GPS or by searching a specific city. Filter by location type, sort by distance or ratings, and read or submit reviews and photos. Share your finds on social media.
- GPS location search
- City-specific search
- Filter by location type
- Sort by distance or ratings
- Read and submit reviews
- Upload photos
- Social media sharing
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Find Craft Beer allows you to use your iPhone or iPad to easily find a place near you to get a Craft Beer. Find Craft Beer uses the GPS to determine your current location and searches a database of Craft Beer locations within your specified distance. You can also provide Find Craft Beer with a specific city to search. Find Craft Beer searches a database of Brew Pubs, Breweries, Beer Bars, Beer Stores and Homebrew Shops. Limit your list to only those types of locations you are interested in. Search with a specific distance, sort by distance or ratings, read reviews of locations and submit your own reviews and pictures! Post to Facebook or Twitter about your current location so your friends can have a beer with you! Check-in comments and Untappd beer check-ins for a location right on the review screen. Find Craft Beer was a finalist in the 2009 BestAppEver awards in the Best Feel Like a Local App! Find Craft Beer is the ideal app when you want to find a place to get a Craft Beer. --- We need your help! Please report locations that are closed or have moved and add any place that other users would find great Craft Beer! All location updates are checked by a moderator so changes will not show immediately, but by having moderator approval, we prevent bad data from getting into the system. --
Brine!
Easily calculate brining recipes for various meats, poultry, fish, and seafood. Learn about different brining techniques and gain background knowledge to improve juiciness, flavor, and texture.
- Customizable recipes for various meats
- Integrated calculators for recipe adjustments
- Expert background knowledge on brining
- Support for equilibrium, wet gradient, and dry brining
- Calculators for custom salt concentrations
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Brine! - The Brining Calculator Finally an easy way to calculate your brining recipe. Do you brine your meat, poultry, fish and seafood? You should! Brining makes your meal juicier, tender and more flavourful! Brining will improve your perfect thanksgiving turkey just as easily as your BBQ meat. Are you unsure how exactly you should brine your produce? Or deterred by complicated percentages and procedures? Then you need this app! Recipes, background knowledge and calculators: "Brine!" includes everything you need to master your brining game! Equilibrium brining, wet gradient brining or dry brining, it's all in the app so that you can use your favourite technique. KEY FEATURES: • CUSTOM RECIPES for Fish fillet, shrimps, chicken, duck and turkey as well as pork and beef. Your favourite meat isn't listed? No worries: You can easily adapt an existing recipe! • CALCULATORS EVERYWHERE: Your thanksgiving turkey is heavier than in the recipe? Somebody invited the neighbours to your BBQ? When it comes to brining, these things make a huge difference! We include calculators everywhere so you don't have to worry about it. • YOU'RE THE EXPERT? Use the custom calculator to use your own preferred final salt concentrations in your food. • BACKGROUND KNOW-HOW: What brining process should I use for what meat? What final salt concentration? How much salt should I use, and should I add sugar or curing salt? These and more questions about processes and principles are answered and bring you up to speed quickly. • BRINING TECHNIQUES: Equilibrium brining, wet gradient bringing and dry brining are the three important techniques in brining. Which one is best? It depends! Because each process has ist own advantages, we let you decide. Switch between techniques easily! WHY BRINE BEFORE COOKING? When brining, salt (and sometimes sugar and curing salt) penetrates into the meat before cooking. This has multiple desired effects: • JUICIER PRODUCE: Brining before cooking makes meat, poultry, fish and seafood juicier. Even after cooking is finished, the brined food will retain more moisture. • FLAVOUR: The brining mixture slowly enters the produce through osmosis. During the cooking process, it becomes evenly distributed throughout the produce and enhances ist taste! • SURFACE TEXTURE: You're aiming for a beautifully brown and flavourful bark? Brining, especially dry brining, will help you! Through the high salt concentration, the outer protein layer partially brakes down, encouraging a quicker Maillard reaction. Wonderful flavours and a bite to match! All the brining knowledge you need - summarized in one compact app with custom calculators. DOWNLOAD "Brine!" NOW! App content in English only. We are always excited to hear from you! If you have any feedback, questions, or concerns, please contact us at app@tastelab.ch.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Find Craft Beer at 4.6 against Brine!'s 3.0. Find Craft Beer also leads on monetization model (free vs paid) and ratings volume (640 vs 2). Brine!'s advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Find Craft Beer costs $0.99 and Brine! $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Find Craft Beer holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Find Craft Beer has 640 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 72% of Find Craft Beer's written reviews are positive against 67% of Brine!'s.
Find Craft Beer ships an update every 3 months, Brine! every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Find Craft Beer | Brine! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.6 (640 ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 72.3% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 640 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #74 — better | #192 |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Micro Integration Services, Inc. | Foodlab GmbH |
Customer experience
Find Craft Beer
Brine!
Bugs and requests
Find Craft Beer
Reported bugs
3 issues- Keyboard covers save button when writing reviews
- Location search feature doesn't always work
- Crashes when searching by current location
Requested features
3 requests- Update app more frequently to keep up with new breweries
- Add ability to search by beer type
- Integrate with more beer review sites
Brine!
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Find Craft Beer
No in-app purchases
Brine!
No in-app purchases









