The app helps you find drinks to make with what you have, keep track of what's on your shelf, add your own creations and save the recipes you come back to. The book helps you understand why those drinks work in the first place.

The goal isn't to teach you 250+ recipes. It's to create a place for you to return to again and again. It is here to give you ways to experiment with flavors that you love to create something new and interesting.

One of the most frustrating things is when you are home and think you have all of the ingredients for your favorite drink and then come to find out you are missing something. The Bar Book is there to help you out and show you all of the drinks you can make. It will also give you the chance to “Riff” and come up with something new with what you have.

Cocktails make a lot more sense when you understand the patterns underneath them.

Once you can see those patterns, recipes become easier to remember. More importantly, they become easier to change. You can make substitutions, create variations, and build drinks around the ingredients you already have.

That's what The Bar Book is about.

Volume I explains the app and the system behind it. Volume II explains the theory: cocktail families, flavor, balance, dilution, carbonation, and the ideas that connect one drink to another.

The app is where you practice. The book is where you learn why it works.

Start with the next chapter.