Android Mobile Review: Brew Town

<p>Brew Town is a Craft Beer Simulator&period; The game is a collaboration between AppBox Media and I Fight Bears&period; Due to its use of alcohol and drug reference the game is rated Mature&period; The gameplay is simple and centers around brewing and designing your own craft beer&period; You upgrade buildings&comma; perfect flavors&comma; and design your own bottles and cans&period; The game&&num;8217&semi;s website even highlights some of their favorites in a hall of fame&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>The Hall of Fame<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Taking time to check out the hall of fame I felt a little terrified of lagers with names like Fireball&comma; Biohazard&comma; Poseidon&&num;8217&semi;s Wrath and Al Capone none of them sounded particularly easy to swallow&period; I&period;P&period;A&&num;8217&semi;s weren&&num;8217&semi;t any better with names like At Worlds End&comma; Mayan Temple&comma; and Kraken In A Cracked Can&period; I took comfort in the more traditional looking Queen&&num;8217&semi;s Common Wealth Red Ale and a unique donut inspired stout&period; Meanwhile&comma; Pilsners got names like Cockatoo and Unicorn Love Juice&period; This begs the question&comma; &&num;8220&semi;what exactly is in Unicorn Love Juice&&num;8221&semi;&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>The Flavors<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>With numerous flavors to perfect drinks can be fruity or nutty&comma; sweet or smokey&period; Whatever you craft&comma; the flavor is up to you&period; If you&&num;8217&semi;re into exotic fruits why not play with Lyche&comma; Mango&comma; and Passionfruit&period; Are spices your thing&quest; Don&&num;8217&semi;t worry there is Corriander&comma; Tumeric&comma; and Tarragon&period; Maybe the sight of nuts and berries makes you think of pb&amp&semi;j&period; Perhaps you learned that mangos and chili go well together from the food channel&period; Or you might go out on a limb and try to make a brew that tastes like cheese and crackers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-youtube layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"500" height&equals;"281" data-videoid&equals;"CzqOBV&lowbar;Ee6o" title&equals;"Brew Town - OUT NOW"><a placeholder href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;youtu&period;be&sol;CzqOBV&lowbar;Ee6o"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;CzqOBV&lowbar;Ee6o&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" layout&equals;"fill" object-fit&equals;"cover" alt&equals;"Brew Town - OUT NOW"><&sol;a><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If you find yourself in need of some inspiration check out Brew Towns Instagram account&period; They&&num;8217&semi;ve got a large display of brews with amazing designs and equally awesome titles&period; Many of them are from their research visit to Meantime Brewing&period; There are also some from Beavertown Beer&comma; Cloudwater Brew&comma; Five Points Brew&comma; Island Records Beer&comma; Tiny Rebel Brew Co&period;&comma; and many more&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>Label Editing<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Inspired by these brews&comma; Brew town as a fun label editor with 52 Colors and hundreds of shapes allowing you to create just about anything on these bottles that you can imagine&period; Your bottle designs then get voted on by other players in kind of mini-game called &&num;8220&semi;Hop or Not&&num;8221&semi;&period; The game is nice in concept&period; However&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;m not sure the idea was implemented as well as it could be&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I feel like once I&&num;8217&semi;ve labeled and got a 5 out of 5 heart rating I had no real reason to change them&period; And I don&&num;8217&semi;t find myself progressing fast enough to unlock new brews&period; Progression in the game can be sped up by watching ads or buying in-game currency&period; But I got tired of letting ads run in the background and I wasn&&num;8217&semi;t really moved to buy in-game currency&period; While you can create whatever your heart imagines&comma; the incentives to are just downright lacking&period; I have had much more fun imagining what I would create in a more enjoyable game and looking at the creations of others&period; And with that&comma; after several days of play&comma; I am hitting uninstall&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;