Crafted Pour: Cocktail Recipes

Pour in a link, snap a menu, or drop in a video. It comes back as a recipe you can edit before you post. We do the typing. The drink stays yours.

Two drinks in and the bottle is still three quarters full, because nobody ever told you what else it could do.

Stan Bissell will. Under his Bitter Godfather he wrote that the classic two-ingredient version ran too sweet for him, so he scaled back the amaretto and added orange bitters. Drinks from people who tasted them, fixed them, and then told you why. Publishing a recipe in this app means writing that story down, which is why the ones in here read like somebody actually made them.

WHAT TO POUR TONIGHT

• The classics, built properly: old fashioned, negroni, margarita, mojito, martini, daiquiri and the rest of the canon
• Whiskey, bourbon, rum, vodka, gin and tequila, every ingredient measured and every tool listed
• Something spicy when you want heat, from jalapeno-infused tequila to a chili salt rim
• Mocktails and non-alcoholic pours that get the same care as everything else
• Summer drinks for the porch and warm sippers for when the evenings turn
• Cranberry pours for Thanksgiving and Christmas, cocktails for two on Valentine's Day, and batch recipes for when the guest list grows

FINDING THE ONE

• Search by drink when you know what you want, or by creator when you know whose taste you trust
• Sort any category by featured, newest, most liked or A to Z, then filter by tag until the list looks like your evening
• A photo of the finished drink, so you know what you are aiming for before you commit the good bottle
• Tap the heart on anything worth remembering and My Cocktails becomes your bar book, the drinks you actually pour kept in one place
• Rate what you make and leave the creator a note, so the good ones rise

WHO POURED IT FIRST Marie is a lead mixologist in Bellevue. Her Apocalypse Punch is in here, and so is her photo, her Instagram, the rest of her drinks, and a tip jar if one of them earns it. Every recipe carries a name like hers: bartenders, mixologists, serious home enthusiasts, and the spirits brands behind the bottles. 5,400+ drinks and a person attached to each one.

The AI in this app is a typist. It turns a creator's photo, video, link or scribbled napkin into ingredients and steps, and that creator approves every line before it posts. It does not invent drinks and it never signs one. The drink stays theirs, the typing was ours. If you have a recipe of your own worth sharing, the same door is open to you.

Follow a bartender whose taste matches yours, tip them when a recipe earns it, and watch the bottles on your counter finally start getting used.

Pull up a stool. Your next favorite drink is already in here.