Find your drinking buddy (and maybe more)

Your Untappd check-ins tell a story. The person with 47 unique saisons, a soft spot for farmhouse ales, and a check-in at every taproom within 50 miles is a fundamentally different person from someone whose top-rated beer is Neck Oil.

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How it works for craft drinkers

Link your accounts. Untappd, Vivino, Distiller - we pull your check-in history, style preferences, ratings, and venue data. Your raw data stays private. Only taste signals are shared.

The matching engine understands drinks at multiple levels:

A beer belongs to a style, brewed by a brewery, checked in at a venue
Matching happens across the hierarchy - shared styles, shared breweries, shared venue habits
Check-ins per style is the engagement signal - one lambic is curiosity; 30 lambics is devotion
Ratings matter - a 4.5 average on saisons tells us more than just "has tried saisons"

Your palate is your personality

Mainstream

IPA

60% of drinkers → NicheWeight 0.40

Niche

Wild Ale / Gueuze

15% of drinkers → NicheWeight 0.85

Engagement + sentiment: The algorithm uses your check-in count per style (how often you seek it out) AND your average rating (how much you enjoy it). High check-ins + high ratings = genuine love. High check-ins + low ratings = you keep trying but it is not for you.

What gets scored

Shared styles weighted by rarity - gose, lambic, barleywine, rauchbier score higher than pale ale and lager

Check-in depth - how many times you have sought out a style, not just tried it once

Ratings alignment - both giving 4+ stars to the same niche style is a strong signal

Shared breweries - both seeking out the same small-batch producers

Venue overlap - frequenting the same taprooms, bottle shops, and beer festivals

Shared dislikes - styles you both consistently rate below 2/5. A mutual disdain for macro lager is barely a signal. A mutual dislike of a trendy style is distinctive

Exploration patterns - unique beer count, style diversity, new-venue frequency

Your perfect pour is out there

"You both have 30+ check-ins on sour ales with an average rating above 4.0, share 3 niche brewery favourites, and your style diversity scores overlap 81%. You have both checked in at the same bottle shop in Manchester."

Not "you both like beer." The actual tasting notes.

Taproom mode (planned)

One of the planned features is venue-based matchmaking - opt in at a taproom, brewery, or beer festival and see who else there shares your palate. Not replacing the dating experience, just adding a data layer to it.

Integrations

Untappd

Check-in history, style preferences, ratings, breweries, venues, badges

Vivino

Wine ratings, grape preferences, region favourites

Distiller

Spirit preferences, tasting notes, wishlist

All opt-in. All revocable. Your check-in history is never shown to matches - only the compatibility signals.

Affinity Atlas is in development

No real matching yet. If you think craft beer compatibility should be a thing - or you have strong opinions about how style matching should work - get in touch. Cheers.

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