Support

Help with BeerChug for iPhone and iPad.

Playing the game

How do I chug?

Pick a vessel, tap START CHUGGING, and tilt your phone back as though you were drinking from it. Beer only flows once you pass that vessel's pouring angle, which is shown on the tilt gauge as a white marker.

Which way do I hold the phone?

Whichever way you like. When the countdown begins, the app records the orientation you're holding and treats that as "upright". Portrait, landscape, upside down, flat on a table, or any angle between all work identically. Rotating the phone around its own axis does nothing, because spinning a glass doesn't pour it.

Nothing is pouring

You haven't reached the pouring angle yet. Watch the tilt gauge — the coloured bar is your current tilt, the white marker is where this vessel starts to pour. That marker moves as the glass empties: a brim-full pint spills at almost any tilt, but the last mouthful needs you past horizontal.

The bottle keeps stuttering

That's the glug, and it's meant to happen. Once the neck is fully submerged, air can't get back in, so beer and air have to share the same opening. Real bottles do exactly this. Easing off the tilt slightly can let air back in.

My run said "SLOPPY" and didn't count

You spilled more than 10% of the drink. Tilting harder than your throat can keep up with sends the excess down your shirt rather than down you. Wide-mouthed vessels like the pitcher and the Solo cup are much harder to keep sealed than a bottle.

What is "Breath"?

Stamina. Swallowing continuously drains it, and as it empties your maximum swallow rate drops. Levelling the glass off lets it recover. On the large vessels, pausing to breathe is faster overall than pushing through.

What does "par" mean?

The time a perfect chug would take for that vessel — tilted just far enough to keep your throat saturated, never far enough to waste a drop, pausing to breathe at the right moments. It's computed by simulation, not picked by hand. Beat it for an S grade.

Troubleshooting

Tilt isn't being detected

• BeerChug needs a device with motion sensors. It won't track tilt in the iOS Simulator.
• If tilt seems offset, tap Re-zero on the ready screen while holding the phone the way you intend to start.
• Restart the app if readings look frozen after a call or interruption.

My best times disappeared

Records are stored only on your device. Deleting the app erases them, and they don't sync between devices or restore from backup to a different device.

Do I need actual beer?

No. BeerChug is a game about tilting a phone — nothing is consumed. Please don't use it to pace real drinking.

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