If you’ve always wanted to be a bartender par excellence — whether entertaining guests at home or holding the fort at someone else’s bash — your smartphone could very well prove to be your best friend. A range of apps are now available to help you get the art of mixology just right, and all you need to do, is follow the instructions. So, do you have an app-titude for serving up the best drinks? Take a look:
Top Shelf: Hundreds and hundreds of recipes, neatly classified into categories and types; a feature that lets you key in all the spirits and mixers you have in your bar and then matches you to the drinks recipes you can serve — these are just some of the features that makes Top Shelf for iPhones a handy app. There’s also a feature where you can add notes to a drink recipes to personalise it to your own tastes.
Liquor Cabinet: Liquor Cabinet, for iOS, has all the features most other drinking apps offer. What is unique about it? Its interface. Liquor Cabinet has a cute bar look, with bottles stacked in a cabinet and little paper napkins bearing recipes. Another interesting feature: It helps you create a “shopping list” for the spirits and mixers you need to buy based on the recipe you select as wanting to use.
Mixologist/Mixology: These are for both iOS and Android, and both count among their plus points, databases so extensive, you won’t feel the need for another resource. The recipes are not just for cocktails, but also shots, hot drinks and a whole lot more.
Cocktail Flow: Another app that can help you plan which drinks to mix, based on the spirits you already have in your bar. This is a good one for beginners because the app has lot of information on the basics of bartending, glassware to use and more.
