I Believe in IPA!

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This one shouldn’t be too much of a challenge: five IPA beers of any of the various styles. The badge goes up to level 100, that’s 500 IPAs so get going.

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There are 26 styles of IPA that currently recognised by untappd: American, Belgian, Black/Cascadian Dark Ale, Brett, Brown, Brut, Cold, English, Farmhouse, Fruited, Imperial/Double, Imperial/Double Black, Imperial/Double Milkshake, Imperial/Double New England, Other, Milkshake, New England, Non-Alcoholic, Quadruple, Red, Rye, Session/India Session Ale, Sour, Triple, Triple New England and White / Wheat. Note APAs don’t count as they are classed as Pale Ales.

There are also separate badges for Black, Hazy, Milkshake, Session and Triple IPAs.

Originally the badge was introduced in 2011 as a collaboration with another website and was limited to only five specific IPAs: Dogfish Head’s 60 Minute IPA, Bell’s Two Hearted IPA, the New Belgium Ranger IPA, Sierra Nevada’s Torpedo Extra IPA and the Bear Republic Racer 5 IPA. A pretty good starting point if you ask me!

Land of the Free

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Land of the Free is the country badge for the USA. Simply check in 5 beers made in America to receive it. Then five more for level 2, all the way to level 100 once you have had 500 US beers.landfree

The beer industry in the States is dominated by several big companies: Anheuser-Busch InBev (Budweiser, Bud light), Molson Coors (Coors, Miller) and Pabst. The Lite Weight and All American badges recognise this dominance.

Despite this, America is also really the “home”of craft beer with hoppy American pale ales launching the craft movement into what it is today. Pioneers of this movement include Sierra Nevada, Boston Beer Co (Samuel Adams), Lagunitas, Goose Island, Russian River, Dogfish Head, Modern Times and Oskar Blues.

Several of these companies have now been bought by the bigger players. This has resulted in an Independence movement by the remaining small players. Untappd has acknowledged this movement with the Cheers to Independent U.S. Craft Breweries badge.

Newbie

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The first badge everyone earns is the Newbie badge. Earning this one is as simple as checking in a beer. Welcome to untappd!

While the Newbie badge doesn’t properly level up, there are 9 other badges

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available based on the number of unique check ins:

  • 25: Apprentice
  • 50: Journeyman
  • 100: Artisian
  • 200: Master
  • 500: Legendary
  • 1,000: Extraordinary
  • 2,500: Elite
  • 5,000: Epic
  • 10,000: Uber