Magical History Tour

Magical History Tour was added in September 2024 and is Untappd’s badge for Historical Beers. To claim it check in five different “historical beers”.

Untappd’s “historical beers” cover a wide range, they currently include:

As you can see, quite an eclectic grouping!

Sour Beer Day

What is hopefully a new recurring ‘Beer Day’ badge was added in 2024. Sour Beer Day is celebrated every September. For 2024 this badge was available between 19-22 September.

Untappd defines a Sour Beer as any style of Wild Ale, Brett Beer, Lambic, Sour or Farmhouse IPA, Berliner Braunbier, Lichtenhainer, Non-Alcoholic Sours, or of course, any Sour (Berliner Weisse, Fruited Berliner Weisse, Flanders Oud Bruin, Flanders Red Ale, Fruited, Gose, Fruited Gose or Other).

March 2023 Style updates

A wee while ago now, but Untappd added a few new styles back in 2023.

The additions were:

In addition, Lager – Amber and Lager – Red got merged into Lager – Amber / Red (Lager Jack and Paint the Town Red), Golden Ale got renamed to Golden Ale – Other (Fields of Gold) and IPA – Brown (I Believe in IPA!, but oddly not Bravo for Brown) was added back into the database.

By my count, that takes the total number of styles on Untappd up to 253, meaning that you can now take the Wheel of Styles badge up to level 51.

Year in Beer

Spotify Untappd has released its Year in Beer feature for 2022. Happily for us, the release is promoted with a new badge. To claim it, check into any beer between 13 December and 13 January. That’s so easy, you probably already have it!

The release is accompanied by seven style specific badges that are sponsored by Oskar Blues and Cigar City. Check into any beer of that style to earn each badge. They styles are: IPA – American, Pale Ale – American, IPA – New England / Hazy, Wheat Beer – Hereweizen, Blonde Ale, Dark Ale and Hard Seltzer.

National Lager Day

After long running badges for International Stout Day and IPA Day, Untappd finally introduced a badge for National Lager Day in 2021. National Lager Day is observed on 10 December every year, so get a lager ready to celebrate and become a Lager Jack!

Fun fact: Lager is the third most popular beverage after water and tea!

The badge was broadened in 2022 to include the wider Lager family: Pilsners, Bocks, California Common, Festbier, Zoigl, Kellerbier, Malt Liquor, Rauchbier, Schwarzbier and even Baltic Porter now count towards National Lager Day.