For all my friends out there who have been known to enjoy a tipple or two, check out this great NYT Profile of “Dr. Cocktail”, perhaps the world’s greatest authority on the mixed drink.
My friend Martin has been working with Dr. Cocktail on Cocktaildb.com, the world’s most exhaustive cocktail resource. It’s a cocktail website for the completionist: they put in every cocktail recipe they could find, even those ones that call for defunct ingredients; cross-referenced the ingredients, and even added what kind of glass to serve it in. In the unlikely event you exhaust their library, the website has what they call “The Mixilator”, a nifty tool to automagically generate new drinks on the fly.
I give it three thumbs up.
Thanks for the plug!
It would be accurate to say we are in the PROCESS of putting in every cocktail recipe we can find, which will take us some years. That said, we’ve got many thousands of them already, and the ingredients database — despite a few omissions we know of and a few we haven’t caught yet — is already the best around.