Inside the app · Scan

Your camera is your spreadsheet now.

Point your camera at any beer label or barcode. BREWTANICA identifies the beer, all of the ingredients and information the brewery listed on the container, and files it away so that you never forget your experience with that beer.

  • Label or barcode

    If you have had this beer before, or a fellow beer lover has logged it on their journey, you both surface and share what is known about it. If not, it is the first entry in your journal, and every other beer lover is informed by you.

  • Read by Ale Intelligence™

    Name, brewery, style, ABV and ingredients, read from the label, not typed by you.

  • Photo-verified, never scraped

    A multi-gate check confirms the entry before it is published.

  • Pioneer credit

    First to scan a beer? That discovery is permanently yours.

BREWTANICA scan screen: scan the barcode or start with the label photos, tips for a clean read, then Live Scan, Photo Upload or Batch

Four steps, one pour

What happens between the shutter and the encyclopedia

1 · Point

Aim at the label or the barcode. Bottle or can, the viewfinder guides the shot.

2 · Read

Ale Intelligence™ reads the name, brewery, style and ABV straight from the label in seconds.

3 · Verify

Every entry is checked against real label data before it earns a place in the record.

4 · Publish

If the beer is new, it is published to the world with your name on the discovery.

The Pioneer system

Be first. Be recognized. Forever.

Pioneer badges are finite. Once you claim the first scan of a beer, nobody else can earn that badge, and your name stays tied to that beer's entry. Pioneer discoveries earn more points than repeat scans and show up in the community activity feed with their own highlight, so the find gets noticed.

For breweries

Scan data becomes product insight

Every scan tells a verified brewery where its beer is being found and how it is rated. Verified breweries see those signals in the Brewery Portal and can author the copy that appears on their beer pages.