About
Cocktail Cellar
Cocktail Cellar is a personal cocktail database. It holds a library of drinks worth knowing, lets you keep your own versions of them, tracks what's in your bar, and tells you what that adds up to.
It's built for one job — deciding what to make and remembering how it went — so there's no feed, no ratings and nothing to scroll past.
How it works
A shared library, and your own shelf beside it
Every drink and ingredient you see without signing in belongs to the shared library. Customizing one never changes it — you get your own copy, which remembers what it was forked from, and the original stays put for everyone else.
Syrups are ingredients, not a separate world
Orgeat is one ingredient whether you bought a bottle or made a batch. A recipe calls for it and doesn't care which. That's why the Syrups tab holds recipes that produce an ingredient, and why every one of them shows up wherever that ingredient is used.
My Bar, and what you can make from it
Tick off the bottles you actually own and the Cocktails tab can filter down to the drinks you can make tonight. Things nobody shelves — sugar, water, ice, mint — are assumed to be on hand and never asked about.
Starred and bookmarked mean different things
A star says "this is one of my drinks". A bookmark says "I intend to make this". Most drinks worth bookmarking end up starred eventually, so they're two lists rather than one, and a drink can sit in both.
Notes double as a drink log
Every note is dated, and one can be marked "I made this" with no text at all. So the same list is both what you thought last time and a record of when you poured it.
The artwork is drawn from the recipe
No cocktail here has a photograph. The glass, the colour of the liquid, the ice and the garnish are all worked out from what the recipe contains — which is why a drink you write yourself gets its own picture the moment you save it.
Worth knowing
- Amounts are stored exactly as they were written down. Switching between ounces and millilitres changes what you see, never what's saved.
- That conversion uses the bar-standard 30 mL to the ounce, not 29.5735 — nobody measures 22.2 mL.
- Amounts accept fractions. Type 1/2, 1 1/2 or 1½ and it'll do the right thing.
- The serving scaler stops at 4×. Past that you're batching, which needs dilution maths this doesn't do.
- Recipes print cleanly straight from the browser — there's no separate print view to go stale.
Start somewhere
A hobby project, built for one bar and shared as-is. The library is a curated starting point rather than a reference work — where a spec matters to you, keep your own copy and write down what you actually did.