Brass Hour – Cocktail Recipes

Tell it what's on your shelf. It tells you what you can pour. Brass Hour is a cocktail library that starts from your bar rather than from a wish list. Add the bottles you actually own — or scan their barcodes — and the app works out what those bottles can make, and what one more would unlock. 2,555 recipes, from the Negroni to drinks you have never heard of, each with its measures, its glass, its method and a photograph. Your bar, not a shopping list. Every recipe shows what you have and what you are missing, so you know before you start whether you can finish. One bottle away. The app surfaces the drinks you are a single ingredient short of, and says how many each missing bottle would unlock. Scan a bottle. Point the camera at a barcode and it identifies what is in your hand and files it under the right ingredient. Substitutions. No Cointreau? It will tell you what else works. Ounces…