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You know the scene well. A keg kicks and your heart drops: you have to update your beer menu.

What comes next goes something like this: you go to the office computer and head to Google to find the new beer's description. You search and search, finally find a description you like, then copy and paste it into your menu document. You're done...except now the formatting is screwed up. You fiddle with it until it's finally ready. You push print and take a deep breath.

You're done.

Until you have to do the exact same thing the next day.

It doesn't have to be that way! Read on to learn how to create a professional beer menu template that automatically includes beer descriptions.

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Most of the hard work is done. You've got zoning approval and you’ve got your liquor license. Your taps are installed, and your keg cooler works.

It's finally all happening, and you can exhale.

Until you realize you still need to get your beer menu ready.

You search on Google to try and find an online template that you can start with. You find one you like and, since it feels like things are going well, you start adding your beers.

Right then—at that precise moment—your heart sinks.

You realize you have to track down descriptions for all your beers yourself. That takes a lot of time. And you don't just have to do it once—you have to do it every single time a keg kicks.

Making your beer menu doesn't have to be a major pain in the butt! Read on to learn how to use BeerMenus to create and update your beer menu in just a few clicks, beer descriptions automatically included.

If you run a bar or restaurant, you’ve had your menu making frustrations.

You spend a bunch of time updating your food menu to include a slate of new menu items. You tinker with design, formatting, and the rest of it, and then, after hours, days, or maybe weeks, you print it off.

You’re finally done updating your menus.

Unless you run a rotational beverage program.

If you do, you’re updating and tinkering every time you kick a keg or get a new wine in. You head to Google, find the beer or wine’s description, then copy and paste it into your menu, where you have to edit or tinker with it. Finally, you print it out, only to do that process all over again the next time a new beer or wine comes in.

It feels like you spend a ton of time updating your menus, which is especially painful because you already don’t have enough time to do the million other things on your to-do list.

It doesn’t have to be that way! Read on to learn how to save time by using BeerMenus to create your food and drink menus in one place.

Published December 2021

Untappd is currently testing a price increase to $899/year for businesses new to Untappd (a 50% increase on their previous pricing) and $749/year for businesses renewing their memberships.

These are significant price increases—previously, Untappd’s pricing was $599 per year (though in some cases they were known to cut deals, offer monthly pricing, etc.)

👉 Update December 2021**: Untappd is testing a price increase to $899/year for businesses new to Untappd (a 50% increase on their previous pricing) and $749/year for businesses renewing their memberships.

These are significant price increases—previously, Untappd’s pricing was $599 per year (though in some cases they were known to cut deals, offer monthly pricing, etc.)

Learn more about Untappd for Business's price increases.

Maybe you’ve received a bunch of phone calls from the Untappd for Business sales team. Maybe a buddy in the industry mentioned it to you. Or maybe you're currently using Untappd for Business at your bar or restaurant.

Regardless, you’re wondering whether it’s right for your bar or restaurant, so you want to learn more.

When you're considering this, you'll certainly evaluate Untappd for Business (something you can do in our Untappd for Business: the Definitive Guide article).

But thoughtful small business owners don’t stop there. Before committing to one service, they do their due diligence and investigate other similar solutions. BeerMenus is a popular Untappd for Business alternative and competitor that's very popular among brewers, beer enthusiasts, and the beer community as a whole.

However, there are significant differences between Untappd for Business and BeerMenus, and there are many cases where BeerMenus is a better fit.

Read on to learn more about Untappd for Business, BeerMenus, and which would be a better fit for your business.

This article is the most exhaustive description of Untappd for Business available. Use it to learn about Untappd for Business and to consider whether it's right for your business.

👉 Update December 2021: Untappd is testing a price increase to $899/year for businesses new to Untappd (a 50% increase on their previous pricing) and $749/year for businesses renewing their memberships.

These are significant price increases—previously, Untappd’s pricing was $599 per year (though in some cases they were known to cut deals, offer monthly pricing, etc.)

Learn more about Untappd for Business's price increases.

Whether you're creating a menu for your sports bar, a wine list for your James Beard award-winning farm to table restaurant, or a mixed drink menu for your dive bar, BeerMenus is the fastest way to create drink menus.

Whenever you need to update your menu, there's no faster tool out there:

With BeerMenus, your beer, wine, and spirits descriptions will automatically be included in your menu (i.e. you don't have to search for them online).

The BeerMenus menu maker helps bars, restaurants, and breweries save time, provide customers the info they need to order, and standout with a professional menu, all with no design skills required.

BeerMenus is the only online menu maker that automatically includes beer, wine, and spirit descriptions, meaning you can have the best of both worlds: you can educate your customers without wasting your time searching for beer information online.

It's Friday night and your bar's been busy all evening long. So far you've kicked 3 kegs and you know a 4th could blow any second.

It's been a solid sales night, especially for the bar. And you've worked hard, so you really feel like you can hang your hat on the day.

But nestling right up next to your "job well done" satisfaction is another, worse feeling: dread. You're feeling it because you have to update your bar menu tonight.

If you make your bar menu manually with a tool like Microsoft Word, Photoshop, or Adobe Illustrator, that means you've got a lot of work to do:

You have to track down beer information for the 3 (or maybe 4) new beers. That means you run a bunch of Google searches then sift through the results to find good descriptions. When you find it, you copy it and then paste it into your menu document. You fix the formatting that got screwed up, and then, finally, you push print and can go home. Exhale.

But you know that exhale doesn't last long; you've already had to update the bar menu 3 times this week.

Here's the good news—updating your bar menu doesn't have to take that long. Read on to learn how to update your bar menu template—complete with drink descriptions—in just a couple clicks.