My 60th birthday party tonight!

Hello r/BarBattlestations,

around 4 years ago I made a post here, asking for participation in a survey to find out what you would expect of a great home bar app. During the last 4 years I created an app in collaboration with my partner that hopefully delivers on your expectations:

https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1550567225?pt=122599277&ct=barBattlestations&mt=8

I'll just list a few features here that are somewhat unique to noflair:

• Add your bottle collection by scanning the barcode
• Add your cocktail books by scanning the barcode and unlock their recipes if you can prove that you own them. (Record short video, not unlike AMA verification. Directions can be found in the app.) At the moment, we provide 4 different books that can be unlocked, but we plan to add plenty more. Now, there's finally a good way to search & filter across all of your books, and an additional reason to buy those books.
• Add your own recipes for your drinks and even homemade ingredients
• We also offer hundreds of publicly available drink recipes, like all the other apps out there
• See which drinks you can make using a particular bottle
• Explore drinks that make use of your soon-to-expire ingredients
• Browse and filter by ingredient, type (preparation method), flavor, source or multiple combinations of those
• Wishlist for products you want to buy
• We have a fun little chat where you can exchange ideas and share recipes
• We have a focus on user generated content, so everyone can expand our ingredient library, add photos to drinks or edit details of products. That also means, sometimes we have a few hiccups in our data, but usually we detect this in review and improve it.

At the moment it's only available for iOS, BUT I will start porting the app to Android next week, so if you're interested in beta testing, send me a message or leave a comment!

If you have any comments, critique or ideas on how to make the app even better, let me know!

BTW, it's free! (There's ways to support us inside the app, but everyone will have the same usage experience.)

First look at what used to be the corner of my detached garage ever the old fridge, and a couple gorilla racks were. Painted and repurposed the old kitchen cabinets from a kitchen remodel a few years ago and joined a couple 2x12's for the counter top over it. Black pipe and 2x12's for the rest of the shelves. Still a work in progress, but it's coming along.

Not mine but seemed like a good design for an unused corner.

I bought the wrong ice maker several months ago and can’t return it. Just last night I realized I bought one that is gravity drain instead of getting on with a pump to drain the water to the sink plumbing. My thought was to use a low profile condensate pump. Has anyone else done this?

Still learning, adapting, developing tastes etc. Just had a nice place open up in the neighborhood where I can find things like Meletti, Nonino, Averna etc. (at costco/sam's club prices) So I will be taking advantage of that. I am a late bloomer when it comes to bourbon and whiskey, but Manhattans, Black Manhattans, Monte Carlos and of course Old Fashioneds are some of my favorite "go to's" as of late. Particular towards ryes, piggyback 6 year, Templeton 4 year and union horse (local distillery) are my favorites right now.

Where can I find this bar cabinet or similar one with sliding glass door?

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Who's had a logo made? How did the experience go? How did you find somebody to do it?

This is what I got. I like to drink so my collection never gets big and impressive.

I planned for something more intricate but I’m happy with the result. Started as an empty wall with too many bottles sitting in front of it.

I'm trying to find some in cabinet lights for my new liquor cabinet. Preferable battery powered and some other options besides the small puck lights. What's everyone using?

I’m currently shopping for an ice maker and seeing prices all over the place. Curious if anyone has any real world experience and recommendations.

Won this in a raffle draw

Turned 21 and got the money to build my first cocktail bar. I don’t store it next to the window, but it’s nice to be able to move it around.

Small house, needed more room for booze

Repurposed this old style desk area in our kitchen into a real home bar. Finally got a menu made so I figured it was time to call it complete!