Untappd Year in Beer: Complete Guide to Recappd 2025, Features, Badges and How to Access It

Untappd Year in Beer is the annual personalized year-end recap feature from the craft beer social platform Untappd. It shows your top beer, top brewery, top style, and total check-ins for the year.

In 2025, Untappd rebranded the feature to “Recappd 2025” with a cosmic space theme, faction battles, and app icon voting. This guide covers every feature, how to access it, and what each edition includes.

What Is Untappd Year in Beer?

Untappd Year in Beer is the annual personalized recap feature from Untappd. The craft beer social platform was launched in September 2010 by Greg Avola and Tim Mather. Each December, the feature compiles your beer-drinking data from the past year into a shareable summary. The concept is similar to Spotify Wrapped for music or Strava Year in Sport for fitness.

The core purpose of Year in Beer is retrospective personalization. You see your top beer, top brewery, top beer style, favorite locations, check-in totals, and activity trends. Furthermore, it compares your stats to the average Untappd user, giving you context for how your drinking year measured up against the global community. For more craft beverage and app guides on AxeeTech, bookmark our lifestyle resource page.

Year in Beer typically launches in early-to-mid December and runs through January. Alongside the personalized stats, Untappd releases a limited-time badge quest. This is usually a style-based challenge where users check in specific beer styles during the event window to unlock exclusive digital badges tied to that year.

The feature has been an annual fixture for several years, with each edition receiving a themed update. In 2025, Untappd rebranded the feature entirely. It is now called “Recappd,” with a completely new format, interactive mechanics, and a dedicated URL. The Year in Beer brand still exists for legacy years, but Recappd is the current-year product name.

Fact	Detail
Current Name (2025+)	Untappd Recappd
Legacy Name (through 2024)	Untappd Year in Beer
Current URL (2025+)	recappd.untappd.com
Legacy URL (2024 and earlier)	yearinbeer.untappd.com
Launch Window	Early-to-mid December each year
Typical Duration	Approximately one month
2025 Duration	32 days
2025 Sponsor	Crescent Canna
2024 Sponsor	YETI
Primary Access	Untappd mobile app and web browser
Insider Tier Bonus	Time Travel access to all previous years’ stats

Untappd Recappd 2025: The Cosmic Rebrand

The 2025 edition marked the biggest change to the feature since launch. Untappd renamed it from Year in Beer to Recappd. Furthermore, it built the entire experience around a space and cosmic theme. The campaign is officially titled “Recappd 2025 presented by Crescent Canna,” and it runs for 32 days of missions, badges, featured styles, and community events.

The biggest new mechanic is the faction system. Users declare a “cosmic faction,” and all points from their Untappd account get applied to that faction. You can switch factions at any time. Your points reassign to the new faction each night during the calculation cycle. Consequently, factions compete on a global leaderboard throughout the 32-day event window.

The ultimate prize for the winning faction is the right to choose the 2026 Untappd app icon. Your faction’s chosen design becomes the app icon that ships to all Untappd users in early 2026. This represents the most direct community-driven product decision Untappd has ever run.

Recappd 2025 also introduces a “Space-Time Continuum” view. This feature lets users revisit their previous years’ stats in the new cosmic format. It functionally replaces the old Time Travel feature that was previously exclusive to Untappd Insiders. In addition, daily missions throughout the 32 days reward different point earnings for check-in activity.

IMPORTANT, 2025 REBRAND EXPLAINED: If you are searching for “Untappd Year in Beer 2025,” you are actually looking for “Untappd Recappd 2025.” Untappd renamed the feature in December 2025. The 2024 and earlier editions are still called Year in Beer (yearinbeer.untappd.com). The 2025 and future editions are Recappd (recappd.untappd.com). Both names refer to the same annual feature concept, just at different points in its history.

Feature	How It Works
Cosmic Factions	Declare your faction; all account points fuel that faction
Daily Missions	32 days of missions with different point-earning rules
Faction Leaderboard	Global competition between factions throughout the event
2026 App Icon Voting	Winning faction chooses the 2026 Untappd app icon
Space-Time Continuum	View previous years’ stats in the new cosmic format
Icon Armada (2026 reward)	All app icons unlockable in 2026 regardless of faction
Faction Switching	Switch anytime; points reassign nightly

What Stats Does Untappd Year in Beer Show You?

Year in Beer compiles several personalized statistics from your check-in history for the calendar year. These stats form the core of the feature regardless of the year’s branding theme. Every user receives the same categories of data, personalized to their own activity.

The stats focus on your favorites and your volume. You see your top beer, which is the one you checked in most often or rated highest. You also see your top brewery, meaning the brewery whose beers you drank most frequently. Your top style is your most-consumed beer style, like IPA, stout, or lager. In addition, you see your total check-in count for the year.

Beyond the favorites, Year in Beer provides community comparison data. You see how your total check-ins compare to the average Untappd user. You can also view which styles were globally most popular versus your personal preferences. Furthermore, you can track how your taste has evolved compared to previous years. This is available via Time Travel for Insiders and now through the Space-Time Continuum in Recappd 2025.

Stat Category	What It Shows	Personalization Level
Top Beer	The beer you checked in most or rated highest this year	Fully personalized
Top Brewery	The brewery whose beers you drank most this year	Fully personalized
Top Beer Style	Your most-consumed beer style this year	Fully personalized
Total Check-ins	Number of beers you checked in this calendar year	Fully personalized
Favorite Locations	Bars, breweries, and venues where you checked in most	Fully personalized
Style Diversity	Number of different beer styles you tried this year	Fully personalized
Global Comparison	How your stats compare to the average Untappd user	Partially personalized
Year-over-Year Trends	How your taste has changed vs previous years	Time Travel / Space-Time Continuum access

How to Access Untappd Year in Beer / Recappd

Accessing Year in Beer is free for all Untappd users. You do not need an Untappd Insider subscription to see your current-year stats. Insiders receive additional benefits such as full Time Travel access to every previous Year in Beer. However, the core personalized recap is available to every registered user. For broader guidance on similar annual features, check our app and tech guides library on AxeeTech.

For Recappd 2025, the primary access point is recappd.untappd.com. You log in with your Untappd account credentials and the site loads your personalized cosmic journey through the year. Additionally, you can access Recappd through the Untappd mobile app, where the feature appears as a promoted section during the event window.

For legacy years (2024 and earlier), the URL yearinbeer.untappd.com historically hosted each year’s Year in Beer. Untappd Insiders can still access Time Travel to view prior years’ recaps within the current Recappd interface. Free users may or may not be able to access prior-year Year in Beer URLs depending on Untappd’s retention policies.

Steps to access your current Year in Beer / Recappd:

1. Make sure you have an active Untappd account (free or Insider tier both work)
2. Make sure you have at least some check-ins logged for the current year because the feature requires data to personalize
3. Open the Untappd mobile app OR navigate to recappd.untappd.com in a web browser
4. Log in with your Untappd account credentials if prompted
5. Find the Year in Beer or Recappd banner on the home screen (appears in December)
6. Tap or click to launch your personalized recap
7. Scroll through your stats, complete daily missions (2025+), and declare a faction (2025+)
8. Use the Share button to post your stats to social media (introduced as a one-button feature in 2024)

Untappd Year in Beer Badges

Each Year in Beer edition includes a limited-time badge quest. This is a set of digital achievement badges unlocked by completing specific check-in challenges during the event window. These badges are one of the most popular Untappd features. Consequently, they are often the main reason casual users return to the app in December.

The badge quest format has varied year to year. The 2023 edition ran a Style Quest featuring twelve beer styles from December 11, 2023 through January 11, 2024. Users checked in any one beverage from each of the twelve featured styles to unlock twelve unique badges. The 2024 edition released style badges in batches of three per week for four weeks.

The 2025 Recappd edition replaces the traditional badge-only quest with a daily mission system spread across 32 days. Each day has different missions with different earning opportunities. Weekly rewards and featured styles still appear. However, they now feed into the overarching faction battle rather than functioning as standalone unlocks.

Year	Format	Badge Count	Duration
2022	Standard Year in Beer with badges	Various	Approximately 1 month
2023	Style Quest with 12 featured styles	12 unique badges	Dec 11, 2023 to Jan 11, 2024
2024	Wild Year in Beer (presented by YETI), batched style badges	12 style badges (3/week for 4 weeks)	Approximately 1 month
2025	Recappd (presented by Crescent Canna), cosmic factions and daily missions	Multiple faction and mission badges	32 days

Here is the complete list of Untappd badges, categorized and organized into tables for easy reading:

🍺 Beer Badges

Newbie	Apprentice	Journeyman
Artisian	Master	Legendary
Extraordinary	Elite	Epic
Uber	Take it Easy	Lite Weight
All American	Cerveza Matador	Heffenista
Luck of the Irish	Beer Connoisseur	The Usual
Power Month	Top of the Mornin	Heavy Weight
Johnny Appleseed	Six Pack	Birthday Brew
Social Drinker	Risk Taker	Taste Crazy
Toast King	Das Boot	Weekday Warrior
Winter Wonderland	Drinking Your Paycheck	I Believe in IPA!
God Save the Queen	Rising Sun	Down Under
Brewery Loyalist	Trappist Travesty	Playing the Field
Your Wish Came True	Untappd Groupie	Summer Fun
Oktoberfest	Belgian Holiday	Pucker Up
Pale as the Moon	Lager Jack	Bottle Share
Suds Samba	Land of the Free	Crisp as Day
Drink Like a Kiwi	Trip to the Farm	The Great White North
The Gondolier	Sky’s the Limit	Photogenic Brew
Home Brewed Goodness	Gourd to the Last Drop	Going Dutch
Flamenco	Brew Lagoon	Swedish Brews
Fruits of Your Labor	Down In Smoke	I’ll Be Bock
Gluten-Free	Bravo for Brown	The Wine of Beers
Keep Your Wits About You	Hey Honey	Czech It Out
Imperial Czar	Hopped Up	Better Together
Dubbel, Tripel and Quad Oh My!	Liquid Lunch	Paint the Town Red
Here Come the Vikings!	Tea Time	You’re Extra Special
Highlander	Danish Delight	La Crème de la Creme
Tovarisch!	Fields of Gold	What Gose Round
Wee Bit of Scotch	Pole Position	Rye It Up!
Raising the Heat	Brew of the Dragon	Never Finnished!
Respect the Kölsch	Take A Dunk!	To The Alt
The RADler	Iron Man	Wheel of Styles
Trekking the Alps	Going on Safari	So Udderly Sweet
2X	Cream of the Crop	Low Gravity
Deep Blue Sea	Call of the Swiss	That’s for Sör!
Riding Steady	Wailing For Wales	Get Them To the Greek
Terviseks!	Ich Bin Ein Berliner	To The Port
Mild Mannered	Black as the Night	Beware of the Bison!
The Backpacker	Hella Delicious!	The Dark Side
Beer for Keeping	Schwarz-buckler	Uma Cerveja
Amazons & Andes	Budmo	In With the Old, In With the New
Hopped Down	Silence of the Lambics	Middle of the Road
99 Bottles	Draft City	For the Can
Session Life	Daily Checker	Tower of Beer
Taster, Please	Tripping on TIPAs	Flan-didly-anders
Caskville	Brewery Pioneer	Old is New
Small But Not Forgotten	Smooth as Silk	Viennaville
Tag, You’re It!	In Lighter Times	Haze for Days
Zwickel City	The Croats	The Sign of Vytis
Oat of this World!	Crystal is King	California Dreamin’
Growl the Growler	Carl the Crowler	Set the Table
Beer of the World	Latitude for Latvia	Baking in Balkan
El Central	Wake Up and Smell the Coffee	Beyond a Shadow of a Stout
Shake it Up!	You Don’t Know Brett!	Kvass RYEot
Roamin’ in Romania	The Century Club	Beer Melting Pot
Dessert Time!	From the Cold

📍 Venue Badges

Beer Party	Happy Hour Hound	Last Call
Night Out	Brew Crawl	Tailgater
The Regular	Here Comes the Brew	Adventurer
Ahoy Matey!	Layover	Beach Bum
Hitting the Slopes	Find the Source	Bowl-A-Rama
Brew Traveler	Bar Explorer	Local Flavor
Hotel Hopper	Taste the Music	Beer Gathering
The Gambler	Can in One	Beerspotting
Visit the Beer Garden	On With The Show	By The Campfire
Big Game on the Big Screen	Taking a Dive	Brew Ha Ha
On a Roll!	Pint of Pride	Pew Pew!
Hidden in Plain View	Verified Adventure	Beer Foodie
Burger Heaven	Pizza & Brew	By the Wing
Ye Olde Pub	Pure Garden Bliss	Brew at the Zoo
Bratwurst und Bier	Pass the Guac	All the Meats
啤	To Go Please	At the Top
Parks & Beers

🎉 Special Badges

Founder’s Hangouts	New Brew Thursday	Untappd Supporter
Cheers to You!	Leap Beer (29 February)	International Women’s Day (8 March)
Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday/Shrove Tuesday)	National Beer Day (7 April)	Earth Day (22 April)
Cinco de Mayo (5 May)	American Craft Beer Week (Second week of May)	Dutch Beer Week (Third week of May)
Pride Month (June)	World Pint (FIFA World Cup years)	Canada Day (1 July)
Independence Day (4 July)	IPA Day (First Thursday of August)	Canadian Beer Day (Wed. prior to 2nd Mon. of Oct)
Untappd Anniversary (19-22 October)	Witch’s Brew (31 October)	Stout Day (First Thursday of November)
Veterans Day (11 November)	GIVING (December)

Untappd Insider Benefits for Year in Beer

Untappd Insider is the platform’s paid subscription tier. Insiders receive benefits across the whole app. Several of those benefits specifically enhance the Year in Beer / Recappd experience. The subscription includes exclusive data access, early feature previews, and merchandise perks.

The headline Insider benefit for Year in Beer is Time Travel. This provides historical access to every previous Year in Beer you were signed up for. Free users can only see the current year’s stats. Insiders can compare 2023 to 2022, see how their style preferences changed over five years, and relive their top beer from any prior edition.

Insiders also receive first access to the annual Year in Beer Box. This is a curated physical package of notable craft beers from breweries including Other Half, Russian River, and Trillium. The 2025 Recappd Beer Box continues this tradition and is available in the Untappd Shop. Therefore, Insiders get early purchase windows before boxes typically sell out.

Feature	Free User	Untappd Insider
Current year’s Year in Beer / Recappd stats	Yes	Yes
Personalized stats shared via social media	Yes	Yes
Participate in faction battle (2025+)	Yes	Yes
Time Travel to previous years’ Year in Beer	No	Yes
Full Space-Time Continuum access (2025)	Limited	Full access
Activity trends on demand (year-round)	No	Yes
Year in Beer Box early purchase window	No	Yes
First access to exclusive events and merch	No	Yes

Untappd Year in Beer Timeline: A History of Every Edition

Year in Beer has evolved steadily from a simple stats page to a multi-week interactive campaign. Understanding the timeline helps you place the 2025 Recappd rebrand in context. It is the biggest structural change in the feature’s history.

The earliest Year in Beer editions focused primarily on stat delivery. Users received their top beer, brewery, and style in a relatively static format. The feature gained interactivity in 2022 when Time Travel launched for Insiders. Then it evolved again in 2024 when Untappd made stats dynamic and interactive with one-button social sharing.

The 2025 Recappd rebrand is the most fundamental redesign. It moves Year in Beer from a passive “here are your stats” experience to an active 32-day game. The new format features factions, missions, and community stakes through the app icon vote. Future editions will likely build on this interactive foundation rather than revert to the old format.

Year	Theme/Name	Sponsor	Notable Features
2022	Year in Beer 2022	N/A	First edition to include Time Travel (Insider-only)
2023	Year in Beer 2023	N/A	Style Quest with 12 featured styles and 12 unique badges
2024	A Wild Year in Beer	YETI	Dynamic interactive stats, one-button social sharing, batched style badges
2025	Recappd 2025	Crescent Canna	Cosmic factions, 32-day mission, 2026 app icon vote, Space-Time Continuum

How to Share Your Untappd Year in Beer Stats

Sharing your Year in Beer stats on social media is one of the most-used features of the whole experience. Untappd made sharing significantly easier in 2024 by introducing a one-button social share feature. Previously, users had to screenshot and crop their stats manually. For deeper guidance on how to share stats on social media effectively, our AxeeTech social media guides cover platform-specific best practices.

The built-in share button generates a stylized, template-matched image of your stat page that includes Untappd branding and the year. You can choose which specific stat to share. Options include top beer, top brewery, top style, or total check-ins rather than sharing the whole page. Supported platforms typically include Instagram Stories, X (Twitter), Facebook, and direct messaging apps.

For users who want more control over their shared image, screenshotting remains an option. Year in Beer pages are designed to be visually shareable at mobile screen resolutions. Therefore, a direct screenshot from your phone usually works well without cropping.

Steps to share your Year in Beer stats:

1. Open your Year in Beer or Recappd recap in the Untappd app or web
2. Scroll to the specific stat card you want to share (top beer, total check-ins, etc.)
3. Look for the Share button on the stat card
4. Tap Share to open the share sheet (2024+ feature)
5. Choose your target platform (Instagram Stories, X, Facebook, etc.)
6. Edit the caption if desired and post

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Frequently Asked Questions About Untappd Year in Beer

These are the most searched questions about Untappd Year in Beer and the 2025 Recappd rebrand.

What is Untappd Year in Beer?

Untappd Year in Beer is the annual personalized recap feature from the craft beer social platform Untappd. It shows your top beer, top brewery, top style, and total check-ins for the year. It launches in early-to-mid December and runs for approximately one month. In 2025, it was rebranded to Untappd Recappd.

Is Untappd Recappd the same as Year in Beer?

Yes. Recappd is the new name for the same annual feature, introduced with the 2025 edition. The product concept is the same, which is a personalized year-end beer recap. Recappd 2025 added new mechanics including cosmic factions, a 32-day mission, and community voting for the 2026 app icon.

How do I access my Untappd Year in Beer?

Log in to the Untappd mobile app or visit recappd.untappd.com during December and January. You need at least some check-ins logged during the year for the feature to show personalized stats. Access is free, and no Untappd Insider subscription is required for the core recap.

Do I need Untappd Insider to see Year in Beer?

No. The core Year in Beer / Recappd experience is free for all Untappd users. Untappd Insider subscribers get additional benefits including Time Travel to previous years’ recaps, on-demand activity trends, and early access to the annual Year in Beer Box.

What are Untappd Recappd factions?

Factions are the 2025 rebrand’s main new mechanic. You declare a cosmic faction, and all points from your account fuel that faction’s score. Factions compete on a global leaderboard, and the winning faction chooses the 2026 Untappd app icon. You can switch factions at any time, with points reassigning nightly.

Can I see my previous Year in Beer stats?

Yes, but with limitations. Untappd Insiders have full Time Travel access to every previous Year in Beer they were signed up for. In 2025, the new Space-Time Continuum feature allows all users to view past years in the new cosmic Recappd format. However, Insiders retain more comprehensive historical access.