BeerMe is the digital equivalent of having a bar tending best friend in every bar in town. There are just three simple steps to ensuring that you can track down your favorite craft brew whenever it’s on tap in Los Angeles: input your favorite beers into BeerMe, follow your favorite bars from BeerMe’s curated list, then rush to the nearest bar to enjoy a pint of local Idiot IPA. 

We love beer, we love curating, and we love the find-a-favorite platform that BeerMe is pioneering.

If you’ve been anywhere near a decent bar or restaurant in the past year, you’re well aware that locally-owned craft beer is on the rise. Yes, America is still dominated by heavyweights Anheuser-Busch InBev and MillerCoors, but the little guys are significantly gaining in numbers, commercial strength, and most importantly, respect. With American Craft Beer Week just wrapping up its biggest year ever with more than 800 events nationwide that showcase local breweries, it’s clear that every niche of America from rural Alaska to the streets of New York has a craft beer to call its own.

As a recent article on Fast Co Design by the author of Beer Craft, a guide to homebrewing and everything beer, points out, “We haven’t drank this much beer from this many breweries for a hundred years.” American breweries are on the rise in both quantity and quality, and the world is taking notice. We’re no Belgium or Germany, but America may soon gain some clout on the international beer stage (I went to Oktoberfest. Sadly I don’t think that the USA will ever be on that level!). Hooray, (American) beer!

Second photo from Christopher Lehault via Flickr