Guides
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The part of the hobby nobody solves: keeping your own recipes straight. Written from a home bar, not a marketing calendar, so there's no schedule; the RSS feed is the way to know when something new is up.
Keeping track
Notebook, spreadsheet, Notion, or app? Organising your cocktail recipes, honestly
Every way people keep their cocktail recipes, what each is actually good at, and where each one quietly fails. From someone who has used all of them.
How to batch cocktails for a party (the maths, and what not to batch)
Scale any cocktail spec to a bottle or a pitcher, add the right amount of water, and know which drinks fall apart when you try.
How to write a cocktail spec card
The format bartenders use to write a drink down so it can be made the same way twice, and why "a little less sugar" is not a recipe.
How to keep track of your own cocktail recipe tweaks
You dialed it in, then lost the good version. Why "a little too sweet last time" isn't a recipe, and a small habit that fixes it.
Apps, compared honestly
The best cocktail recipe apps in 2026, tested with your own recipes
Six iOS cocktail apps, four tests each: getting your recipe in, whether edits stick, whether you can get it out, and whether anyone still maintains it.
What happens to your recipes when a cocktail app dies
Two popular cocktail apps haven't shipped an update since 2018 and 2019. A four-step exit test to run before you type your fiftieth recipe into anything.