It's been kinda wild recently, as we've pushed on and on in the cocktail world. First and foremost:

This one is huge for us. We basically rebuilt the whole UI on the app, added a heap of features, including but not limited to:

Plus a million other tweaks, changes and upgrades. Version 4 of the app got released about a week ago and so far the reception has been great! Thanks to you all

We had to make some financial decisions on how best to keep the site fast and operational, and with that in mind we went the other way - we decided to spend more money, put more infrastructure and speed in place to cope with the demand we have. We just can't put up with the site being slow or under performing for you.

Completely reworked pages there, with lots of information and interactivity there for you.

This was another big shift for us. A long time ago we have public profiles but we weren't happy at the way they were implemented, and we had privacy concerns so we shelved them. Well we've spent some reworking this whole section and now users can opt-in to making their profile public, with extra information and visibility for the pages. It's been great and we've loved reading about all you mixologists out there.

To be honest, we've been moving so fast recently that theres been a lot more going on. We've changed so much on the site, app, infrastructure and more that its hard to keep up to date with it all.

I'll try getting this change log more updated in the future, in more incremental parts, so we can highlight exactly whats been changed as and when it happens.

But for now, keep letting us know if theres anything else we can do, improve or build. We listen to you all.

Cheers

Honestly we've been so heads-down the last 6 weeks that we haven't been shouting about it nearly enough. So buckle up, because

there's A LOT to get through. Let's go!

This is THE big one. We've gone fully multi-lingual!

The site now properly speaks English, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, Italian, and Dutch — and we don't mean a half-baked Google Translate slapped over the top. We mean proper, deep, SEO-friendly, controller-level translations all the way down through the site. Every cocktail, every ingredient, every breadcrumb, every meta tag.

If you're a non-English speaker — please go and have a play, and let us know what you think (and shout if anything reads weirdly!).

We then turned our attention to speed, because nobody likes a slow website.

The result — pages that already felt snappy now feel instant. We're really proud of where the speed sits now.

Whilst we were under the bonnet anyway, we did a massive modernisation pass. New dependency bumps across the board, a full migration of our component system to a cleaner single-file setup. None of this is visible to you (which is kind of the point) — but it means we can build new features faster, more reliably, with fewer bugs. Boring but necessary, and a LOT of it!

This one's a bit more behind-the-scenes but it's already paying off massively.

We've spent 10 weeks building out a proper analytics + findings platform for ourselves. Think of it as a dashboard that tells us when something on the site is broken, slow, ranking badly, indexed wrongly, or just plain underperforming — and then gives us a one-click "briefing pack" to go and fix it. Reliability, performance, growth SEO, indexation, competitor intelligence, conversion, content production — every pillar covered.

It even has an agent remediation pilot built in, so some of the smaller fixes can be done semi-automatically. Wild stuff.

What it means for you — fewer broken pages, faster pages, better content, faster.

Lots of API endpoint work shipping in the background ready for the app side of things — including the new MyBar resource which is laying the groundwork for the next big app push. Cancel protection, social auth refinements, rate limiting, the lot.

A few smaller goodies sprinkled throughout —

The site is now multi-lingual, MUCH faster, on a freshly-modernised stack, and we've got a brand new analytics brain making sure things stay that way. The next few months are going to feel really, really good.

As always — go have a play, shout if you spot anything weird, and happy mixing all!

We actually silently shipped this about 2 weeks ago, but we wanted to let it sit for a while and get used, receive some user feedback and tweak accordingly before we shouted about it. But we're so happy at where it's at now that its time to shout about it!

We launched a completely new, improved, amazing, swanky, streamlined (insert more adjectives) MyBar, and boy is it good.

Proper onboarding, live counts, live cocktail 'toasts' showing you what adding allows you to make! Proper 'Photo your bar', multi-bars, ingredient adding ... are just of the improvements and crazy new features.

Those few words don't do it justice, but we just think we've hit a great balance between simplicity with power where needed.

We're working on it for the App, with a complete app overhaul (version 4 coming soon), but boy are we proud of how this turned out.

Get making and shaking, and let us know any issues.

We made 3 massive updates to the site today, but unfortunately came under fire by the dreaded production server gremlins in the process. If you experienced any downtime today we're really sorry, but hopefully all working now.

However ..... the improvements are, well, HUGE!!!

The smallest (yet by no means small) of the three was we replaced our clever searching system with a locally hosted clever searching system. We were using Algolia before (paid for service) but moved the searching over to TypeSense. What does this mean for you all. Well

We've spent about 3-4 weeks cleaning up, adding, re-categorising our whole ingredient database. Not only do we now have over 10,000 ingredients in our database, they also are all categorised properly ready for our new MyBare coming you way. This may not seem like much on the surface in terms of deliverables for you all, but let me tell you, this was huge for us. We've put in a lot of effort here!

A new package got released literally today (Laravel Blaze for those who care), and we decided to put it on our site straight away. It's sped up all our pages by about 50%. So the home page, that did load up in just shy of 1s (for those on fast connections), now loads up in less than 500ms! Theres fast, and then theres fast!

We really couldnt believe the speed increase and we just had to get it out for you!

So as you can see, theres been 3 HUGE updates for you today, and ones that really lay the ground work for more advancements moving forward.

Cant stop, wont stop!

Happy mixing all.

As we silently rolled out a little bug update to our apps last week, we've been secretly working away on the new Add A Recipe feature on our site (coming to app soon). It allows you all to start adding (and sharing) your own cocktail creations with the world, all beautifully presented in our wonderful way on our site.

This is live now, you can test it out here:

Let us know what you create, we're excited to see it!

We've been busy releasing a host of minor changes before some big updates coming to you later on this quarter. However updated in the last couple of weeks:

One of the most asked for functionalities that we've been wanted to implement for a LOOOOONNNNGGGGG time has finally made its way to the web - social logins. We've implemented Google and Apple logins for you right now, and we're working on porting them over to the app shortly. We're hoping we've caught all the little edge cases, but do let us know if you have any issues with the sign-ins.

We've made a backend change so that you can share your login / bar with friends. You're now allowed a maximum of 3 devices to be logged into a single account at one time - useful if you are sharing a bar and both want to see cocktails you can make. Or one of you with a recipe making a cocktail in-front of you, another looking for the next!!

Device administration is coming to the app in the next release

We've spent a good few days trying to put together a few final touches before we tackle some more complex harder problems with the app and website (notably the MyBar feature and videos). Lets cut to the chase, so heres the changelog for the app from 3.21 to 3.25:

And now we can hopefully just leave the app sit for a little bit, as we really work on the next generation of cocktail creation. Version 4 hopefully coming to you in the first quarter of this year.

Around 4-5 days ago we noticed that some of our lifetime subscribers were being downgraded in our app when logging in. We could easily upgrade them again, but on every login it would downgrade again. We investigated and pushed up a real quick fix in 3.16 (launched 3 days ago). However, a day later we noticed that we had only half fixed the problem, and hadn't caught the whole issue.

Well we took a breath, fixed this properly (hopefully) but also took the opportunity to release a host of features we'd been working on. So along with that premium subscriber issue fix we also released this absolute banger of a list of features and updates into the app for you all:

Our website has had them for a long time, but how to properly integrate them into our app took some finessing and love. But we finally figured it out and delivered this beautiful feature for you all. Custom lists, privacy options, cocktail adding and removal, all integrated. This one has been asked by you all for a while, and now its there!

Tasting notes have, for a long time, been present but not properly surfaced or searchable. We've fixed this and put some love into it all. You now have a dedicated page for all tasting notes, we've given you the ability to delete a tasting note (how was that missing), and also added a little number pil to show how many you have if you've added one / some. Nice!

We added the ability to add photos into cocktail comments a couple of months ago, but we've enhanced this feature so that you can now add a photo directly from the cocktail itself (without the need of a comment). We've surfaced these, and any comment photos, directly on that thumbnail section.

Power searches (for premium members) are just so cool, but some of you were asking about surfacing your old searches, and if you go back, you cant find it again. We've fixed that now so you can view your old searches and results, instantly loading up the relevant data.

We also took the time to give a little love to our common search, with some loading indicators and more so the page didn't jar as much, and delivered a smoother experience.

Finally, we changed our app icons to remove the Christmas hat and added a nicer loading screen animation when you first load up the app. Fun times!

With all this stuff we're always tweaking and changing as we get feedback, and once the features settle a little. But for now, get the new update and enjoy the beautiful app experience! We always welcome any feedback!