There are a ton of cocktail websites around, most of which let you search by main ingredient. My problem is, I have a pretty big bar but I tend to make the same drinks over and over. Also, on these websites, a lot of the drinks sound awful and I have to comb through them all to find what I like. What I’m hoping to find would be a site that does the following:
[ol]
[li]You can log in and enter all of the ingredients you typically have on hand (booze and other). The ingredient list is saved on the website with your ID so you can access it any time.[/li][li]You can mark recipes you’re interested in, as well as those you NEVER want to try. And/or you can rank recipes by whether you’re tried and liked them.[/li][li]You can choose a recipe by entering one or more ingredients, or by the general type you want (bitter, sweet, sangria, etc)[/li][/ol]
And all of that info is saved with your ID. Does such a web site exist?
Your list is quite extensive, and sounds like it would’ve been dozens (maybe even a hundred) of hours of work for someone. Can’t imagine someone doing all that for free. I think your best bet is keep researching to see if someone has or will make an app, and you’d probably have to spend $5-10 to buy it.
Start researching apps or kickstarters… or make this yourself!
I’d buy it; bet it’d be worth a fiver to many people.
Jim Meehan of the bar PDT in Manhattan has published a companion app to his cocktail book. It does that part where it makes suggestions based on your inventory. And I consider the book a must-have for cocktail fanatics given Jim’s stature in the community. Dunno about the other features as I am reliant on my post-it note marked library and never remember to look at the app even though I own it.
Cocktail DB is kind of like that, but it tends to return a lot of crap cocktails in my experience.
I have much the same issue that you do, and have thought about how I’d solve it. What I’d prefer would be an app/website where I could enter my booze/liqueur/ingredients inventory, and then that would serve as the first pass filters for the cocktails (i.e. it would narrow the options- if you don’t have rum, you won’t see rum drinks)I
Then, you’d have the option of searching by any or all of the following: category (sours, highballs, tiki, punch, etc…), up to 4-5 ingredients, and maybe hot/cold. Then it would be nice to have an option to show/hide cocktails where you lack one ingredient or two ingredients.
Once you have your results, you’d have the option of saving the search, or even flagging individual recipes (which you could later use as a search criterion).