OpenBar

AI-powered cocktail discovery. Scan your bar, identify bottles, and find recipes from what you have. Your personal speakeasy in your pocket.

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The app started in 2023 when our founder was in chemo for cancer. Hundreds of cocktail recipes scattered across phones, notepads, text threads with his brother. He needed something to aim his mind at. Three years later, here we are.

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3/4 oz grenadine, straight to the bottom
1.5 oz white rum, then fill with coconut cream soda over ice

1/2 oz blue curaçao, poured slow over the ice

Build it cold and in that order, and the ice keeps the stripes honest for a good while.

Not sure what your cabinet can pull off? Scan your bottles and OpenBar builds the drink around what you already own.

Free on iOS: https://t.co/Rn57JapcaR

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America turns 250 today, old enough to know better, still young enough to set off fireworks in a parking lot.

We’re toasting the Fourth with Old Glory, a three-layer highball in red, white, and blue that holds its stripes until someone stirs it.

Recipe below.

[Matt Wheeler @TheRealMatt_W]

Three years ago I was in chemo for cancer.

I started building a cocktail app from the chair my brother and I had talked about for years.

Today it's live on the App Store.

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OpenBar v1.3 is live.

Point your phone at your bar. We identify every bottle and tell you exactly what cocktails you can pour right now. Six themed bar atmospheres. 300+ recipes. An AI bartender that builds menus from what you have.

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Your bar is smarter than you think.

That random bottle of Chartreuse from 2019? It unlocks 12 cocktails you didn't know you could make.

OpenBar tracks every bottle you own and matches them to recipes instantly.

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The Jungle Bird was created in 1978 at the Kuala Lumpur Hilton. It was overlooked for decades because it paired Campari with rum -- something nobody thought would work.

They were wrong. It's incredible.

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Reviews like this make the late nights worth it.

Thank you to everyone who's tried OpenBar. Every download, every rating, every cocktail logged means a lot.

The speakeasy is just getting started.

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What are you mixing this weekend?

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Prohibition was when cocktails got creative.

Bartenders had to mask bad bootleg liquor with bitters, citrus, and sugar. That necessity birthed the craft cocktail.

The best creativity comes from constraints.

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Every cocktail you make deserves to be remembered.

OpenBar's Cocktail Ledger tracks what you've mixed, when you made it, and how you rated it.

Your personal bartending journal.

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OpenBar currently has 26 achievement badges to unlock as you explore cocktails.

Some are visible. Some are hidden. Many play a prohibition-era video when you unlock it.

How many can you find?

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The secret to a great Whiskey Sour is balance. 2:1:1.

2 oz bourbon. 1 oz fresh lemon. 1 oz simple syrup.

Fresh citrus matters. Bottled sour mix is a war crime.

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#OpenBar #Mixology #CraftCocktails

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Tried an amazing cocktail but don't know what it's called?

Snap a photo of your cocktail during check-in. OpenBar's AI identifies and names the drink for you.

It even knows the obscure ones.

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The "shaken not stirred" debate:

Shaken = citrus or dairy cocktails (aeration, dilution)
Stirred = spirit-forward cocktails (clarity, silky texture)

James Bond was wrong about the Martini. There, I said it.

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Why a 1920s speakeasy theme?

Prohibition was when cocktails got creative. Bartenders had to mask bad bootleg liquor with bitters, citrus, and sugar. That necessity birthed the craft cocktail.

OpenBar is a love letter to that era.

[Bourbon Brotherhood @BourbonBrother]

#bourbon #bourbonbrotherhood #happy

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The original Mai Tai had no pineapple juice, no orange juice, no grenadine.

Just aged rum, lime, orange curacao, orgeat, and rock candy syrup.

Trader Vic, 1944. Simple and perfect.

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Settle this: what's the most underrated cocktail that everyone should know how to make?

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Dark wood. Brass accents. Vintage typography.

Every screen in OpenBar feels like walking into a speakeasy you weren't supposed to find.

Except this one fits in your pocket and knows every cocktail recipe behind the bar.

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