Cocktail recipe apps for the iPhone
"Cocktails are now so numerous," the journalist H.L. Mencken wrote 60 years ago, "that no bartender, however talented, can remember how to make all of them, or even half of them." Mencken added, "No man short of a giant could try them all, and nine-tenths of them, I believe, would hardly be worth trying." This from a man who once hired a mathematician to calculate how many drinks could be mixed from a well-stocked bar. The answer: 17,864,392,788. "We tried 273 at random," Mencken reported, "and found all of them good."
If anyone had taken Mencken at his word, of course, there wouldn't be shelves of fat bartending guides and certainly no need for the cocktail database applications now available at the App Store. Two of the four applications available in English are highly useful in their own way. (A fifth app, Cocktails by Swiss-Development, is available only in German so is not reviewed here.) The best of the lot allow users to create and manage a list of favorite drinks, e-mail or text message recipes to friends, and feature about 5,500 recipes between them. But all suffer from flaws that the developers would do well to remedy in future releases.
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Hello, Congratulation on the
Hello,Congratulation on the app.
I was originally going to design such an app but then chose a different route.
Check us out at http://text4cocktails.co.uk/
Kind Regards,
Ryan Coutts
Text4Cocktails
I like the iShot Machine app
I like the iShot Machine app it's not just another recipe app with a 10,000 coctails. This is entertainment with a useful recipe database. A cool interface and fun to use. http://www.iShotMachine.com Great for an icebreaker at a bar.replica bags
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