April 30, 2026
The Simple Slushy Calculator. You guys know how much I hate the gatekeeping that happens from time to time in this industry. Believe it or not, there are bartenders out there who would rather die than help other people make great drinks. It sucks. What also sucks is that sometimes we bartenders just do what | Read More
September 19, 2024
Ever since I started building webapps this summer and sharing them with the world, I’ve been (pleasantly) bombarded with requests from people who want more. Which is awesome and I promise I’m going to get to many of the ones I haven’t gotten to yet. However, I have gotten a lot of requests for tools | Read More
August 19, 2024
I made this for you guys because I love you – the Batch Cocktail Calculator. Designed for both professional bartenders and folks who make drinks at home, this calculator takes your single-serving cocktail recipe and turns it into a batch of any size. This project kicked my ass a more than the Universal Syrup Calculator | Read More
March 23, 2023
Yesterday I bought a new hand juicer that someone shared with me, and I bought it because it was something I’d never seen before! (To be fair I do believe it was just released this year – someone let me know if this is incorrect) It’s a hard plastic, flat hand juicer. That’s right, it | Read More
January 11, 2022
Something occurred to me recently: Why are we still banishing low-alcohol and no-alcohol drinks to their own dumb section of the menu, like they’re sitting at the kids’ table at dinner? Think about it for a second, doesn’t it seem a little barbaric in this day and age – when we’re all consuming more low-proof | Read More
I love being pleasantly surprised by bar-related knowledge, and this is the most recent surprise I learned while doing a staff training last week here in Portland. Head bartender Jared Miller shocked me by telling me that he cuts his citrus peels with one of the cheese slicers they use at the wine bar he | Read More
August 28, 2018
Sometime last year my good friends over at Cocktail Kingdom approached me about doing some bar tools together, and I enthusiastically say yes. So over the course of the last year we’ve been working together on designing, branding, and producing some bar tools that I think are a little different. I didn’t think there was | Read More
These are the books and tools I use every single day to make drinks at home and behind the bar. Clicking on a product takes you to Amazon, which helps me keep this site running, so thank you in advance!
