Cocktail Party: Drink Recipes

This is my favorite app of all time. Not just cocktails or cooking. Literally everything. It’s completely opened up a world of cocktails to explore. Google can only answer questions I know to ask. Here I can pick a bottle I have under appreciated and just browse ways to use it. I love that it tells me what I can make with what I have on hand, and what I’m just missing one ingredient for. My wife loves sour drinks and I love classic cocktails. I love that I can get a set of options for each based on what I’ve got around. The near-miss functionality that allows it to show me drinks I have substitutions for, is awesome. (I don’t have blanco tequila, just aged. Should I miss out on the Conquistador for that? No!) This is everything an app should be. Required reading for aspiring app developers in any category. I feel greedy asking for anything more but: • I’d love for more options for ranking. I want to remember the drinks I made that I didn’t love or were just ok. • I’d love tags so I could remember which friends loved which drinks as well. • Add “my notes” section where I could note things like that I prefer this one with orange curaçao and that one with triple sec. • And, a big one, garnishes. That’s a big part of a drink and I offer have to turn back to google for that one. So this app is nearly already perfect, but it could be even perfecter. Keep up the good work.

Stuck at home on lockdown with nothing to do? Me too, so I thought this would be the perfect time to practice my at home bartending skills. After trying more than a dozen apps, I can tell you that this is the one you are looking for. A beautiful app with a simple user interface and hundreds of wonderful recipes. Your ingredients are super easy to enter, and finding new drinks to try with what you have at home is so intuitive. Want to know what to buy to make even more recipes? It does that too. Automatically! Did I mention that it is beautiful? No 8-bit graphics here! And best of all, the developers are responsive and actively working on new features to make this even better. If you want to see what sort of recipes they have, check out the website.

I have tried many different apps, books, and web resources for cocktails. This is the best. I used to work in cocktail bars and still help out with special events on weekends. I have a pretty sizable home bar and want to be able to make as many classic and creative cocktails with my home inventory as possible. This app makes it so easy. I love the ingredient organization, icons that reflect popular brands, and recommendations for specific bottles. It’s great to see which ingredients added to my bar can add the most new cocktails. This is super helpful in prioritizing what to add next to the collection. I wish apps were designed this thoughtfully for every other aspect of life. Thank you development team!