Build a Free App for Your Craft Brewery
It's a packed Friday night in the taproom, your bartenders are three-deep at the rail, and someone's leaning over the taps asking whether the hazy IPA that sold out last week is back on. Meanwhile your mug club renewals are tracked on a clipboard, roughly 40 members deep, and you honestly can't remember who's paid up. Every 'what's on tap tonight?' text and 'can we book the back room?' email pulls you away from actually running the brewery.
A simple app pulls all of that into one place your regulars actually check. Live tap list, this week's food truck and trivia night, a mug club members can join and renew from their phone, a merch shop for hoodies and growlers, and a tidy form for private-hire enquiries that lands in your inbox with the date and headcount already filled in. Fewer interruptions at the bar, more people showing up for the events you already run.
You don't need a developer or a five-figure budget to make this happen. With Appy Club you describe your brewery in plain English, and the AI builds your app — free, no code, no app-store headaches. If you can write a beer description, you can build this.
Everything a brewerie app should have
What you can do with it
- ✓Show a live tap list with ABV, style and 'last keg' warnings so regulars know what's pouring before they arrive
- ✓Run a paid mug club membership with digital cards, renewal reminders and members-only pours
- ✓Post taproom events — trivia, live music, food truck line-ups — with RSVPs and calendar reminders
- ✓Sell merch and gift cards — logo hoodies, glassware, growler fills — for pickup at the bar
- ✓Collect private-hire and event enquiries with a form that captures date, group size and occasion
What could this be worth?
Play with your numbers — what could this become?
The breweries app market — a quick reality check
An honest snapshot so you build with your eyes open.
- · Untappd for Business (tap lists & check-ins)
- · Square + Toast (POS with loyalty add-ons)
- · Arryved (brewery-specific POS)
There are roughly 9,000+ craft breweries across the US alone, and most of them run a taproom that depends on regulars showing up for events and memberships.
Craft beer volume growth has cooled, so breweries are leaning harder on taproom experience, memberships and merch to protect margins rather than wholesale distribution.
A small brewery wins by owning its most loyal regulars directly — a branded app that keeps your mug club, events and tap list in one place beats renting attention on someone else's platform.
Breweries app — frequently asked
Your one-shot design prompt
An art-directed prompt written for a breweries business — services, prices, palette and motion spec included. Click build, or copy it anywhere.
You are a senior brand designer shipping the launch site for a real local business. Build a complete one-page site for Ironwood Brewing Co. — "Small-batch beer, big taproom energy". Write ALL the copy yourself in the business's voice: specific, confident, zero lorem ipsum and zero filler. ART DIRECTION — warm appetite — rich duotone food gradients, editorial menu typography. Primary color #b5651d, accent #f2a900; build a full palette around them (backgrounds, text, muted tones) with body-text contrast of at least 4.5:1. Fonts via a Google Fonts link in the head: "Fraunces" 500/600 for headlines, "Karla" for body. THE BUSINESS — services and real prices to use verbatim: - Annual Mug Club — $60 (20oz pours + members nights) - Growler Fill — $18 (64oz, any tap) - Trivia Night RSVP — $0 (Tuesdays 7pm) - Logo Hoodie — $45 (Taproom pickup) - Private Room Hire — $250 (Deposit, seats 40) - Gift Card — $25 (Any amount) LAYOUT, top to bottom: 1. Slim nav — the business name, Menu / Hours anchors, and an "Join the mug club" button. 2. Hero — appetite-first: headline from "Small-batch beer, big taproom energy", one sensory sentence, "Join the mug club" CTA, proof line "★★★★★ Loved by 900+ regulars". 3. Menu — "Choose your membership & pours": the items below as a beautifully typeset menu with names, prices, and notes; group sensibly. 4. Order/visit band — order-ahead or reservation call-to-action with a supporting line. 5. Gallery strip — four CSS-gradient food/scene tiles (no photos needed). 6. Hours & location — a clean two-column block. 7. Footer — contact, socials, one-line story. MOTION: confident. Hero words rise 20px with a 80ms stagger on a cubic-bezier(0.22,1,0.36,1) curve; section reveals are quick (300ms) with a slight 1.02 scale settle; cards lift 5px with a shadow on hover; stats count up once on reveal. Respect prefers-reduced-motion: disable reveals, show everything. RULES: fully responsive at 375 / 768 / 1280 — nothing may overflow horizontally. Semantic HTML with labeled form fields and visible focus states. All artwork is CSS gradients or inline SVG — no external images, no libraries. Content must be complete and readable with JavaScript disabled; motion is an enhancement. Forms are front-end only until connected — say so in a small honest note near the submit button.