Craft beer goes mobile with Had That Beer app

Mathew Piccinato enjoys a good craft beer in an enjoyable setting as much as anyone. So much so that he created a mobile app to track the good places to drink the best beers, Had That Beer. The free iPhone app allows users to rate not only the beers they are drinking but the places where they are enjoying them, too. It gives people a living history of the beers they like, even if they don't remember them the next morning. "That way you can look up what you had before," Piccinato says. "It can help you make decisions on what you want to drink next." Had That Beer is currently in a private Beta testing, but Piccinato is letting anyone try it before its official launch later this fall. The 27-year-old software programmer is currently making iOS apps for a Florida firm, but would like to see the Berkley-based Had That Beer become a business of its own. "Once I figure out a monetization strategy, I would like to make it my full-time job," Piccinato says. Source: Mathew Piccinato, founder of Had That Beer Writer: Jon Zemke Read more about Metro Detroit's growing entrepreneurial ecosystem at SEMichiganStartup.com.