Mr. Boston Official Mobile Bartender’s Guide app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Sazerac Company, Inc.
First release : 23 Sep 2010
App size: 3.68 Mb
For the low introductory price of 99 cents, you can have the expert advice and trusted recipes bartenders have come to expect from Mr. Boston at your fingertips.
Here’s what’s on tap:
• More than 1,500 searchable and browsable recipes that can be viewed in metric or US units. Recipes are searchable by name, primary liquor (Gin, Vodka, Whiskey, etc.), type (Hot Drinks, Punches, etc.), or key ingredients (Orange Juice, Banana, Strawberry, etc.). Like a certain combination of ingredients? Put them together in the search and find all the recipes that use them.
• The ability to add notes to your favorite recipes to jot down variation ideas and garnish suggestions or keep track of your friends’ favorite drinks.
• A list of Favorites that keeps your top picks just one touch away.
• The ability to share recipes easily with your friends via email or Facebook.
• A shopping list that allows you to add all of a drink’s ingredients with a single touch. Already have an ingredient? Strike through it or delete it altogether.
• An interactive spinner wheel that helps figure out how many drinks to serve for any social occasion, how many cocktails or servings you can create from a single bottle, and more.
• An illustrated Bar Basics section that covers all of the essentials of bartending, from key techniques, ingredients, and measurement conversions, to choosing the right glassware for each drink.
• Beautiful photography from award-winning photographer Ben Fink—plus, you can upload your own photos for your favorite recipes to document your successes.
• Feeling uninspired? Shake your device to get a randomly generated recipe.
Latest reviews of Mr. Boston Official Mobile Bartender’s Guide app for iPhone and iPad
Love it - super simple to use and comprehensive. Will use for this holiday season whether Im hosting or guesting!
Great app -- nice design, and there are tons of recipes for unusual drinks along with all the classics. I like that I can add notes and photos to my favorite recipes, and the ability to switch back and forth between ounces and grams is also really useful.
Im so glad I downloaded this app instead of some of the other bartending guides - this one is fantastic! Its so well organized and super-simple to use. I love the Bar Basics section because it gives a great rundown of equipment needed and even guidance on how many drinks to plan for every occasion or bottles of wine to plan for when having a dinner party - who doesnt need that??? There are over 1,000 recipes and ideas for cocktails, from the classic to the exotic, and even toasty holiday toddies like eggnogs and punches, which are perfect for this time of year. The shopping list feature is perfect for planning on-the-go, and you can share recipe ideas with friends via e-mail or on Facebook. The Favorites feature lets you add your own notes and photos to recipes - genius! Its like a built-in scrapbooking function right in your app!
Mr. Boston is a respected name in cocktail guides, but this app falls short in usability and functionality. I definitely expected more. The interface, though attractive, is a bit awkward to use. Some buttons are at the bottom, some at the top, making it uncomfortable and unintuitive. You are unable to browse all drinks--you must browse by type of liquor or search by name. When browsing, there is also no letter index, so you must scroll through all the drinks to go down the list (ie. no jumping to letter M). Very few drinks have photos. Some of the other bar-tending info offered in this app is useful, and depending on what youre looking for, this could add some value. But for me, I wanted a comprehensive and readily accessible cocktail resource with photos. This app didnt quite hit the spot.
Im a bartender with 12 years expirience and thought this would be a great app because I wouldnt have to carry my recipe book. I was dissapointed that the first recipe that I look up to refresh my memory was completly off!!! Look up Rum Runner!!! Instead of rum, banana liquor, ect. it says it is with gin!!! This cant be the real Mr. Boston bartenders guide!!!