Drinking. It's one of the most imperative facets of New York City, one of the best ways for us to all understand each other and bond.
Whether you love collecting pictures of yourself chugging different beers, or your passion is mixing drinks for your friends in your apartment, there is, as they say, an app for that.
The following is a compilation of some of the dopest apps in cyberspace.
One app allows you to summon your favorite alcohol to your front door in under an hour. Others are gorgeous collections of some of the most delicious cocktail recipes under the sun. One app even measures the amount you're pouring into your drink so you don't have to.
Read on to discover 9 of the best drink apps there are out there. Then, get sipping.
1. Highball
mattdoucette Highball from @studioneat is the cocktail app we deserve. I made the Brandy Alexander card myself. Quality stuff #alcohol #highballapp
Highball is an iPhone app for sharing and collecting cocktail recipes.
So whether you throw the world's most epic pre-games or you love engineering delicious after-work drinks for yourself and your roommate, you'll find plenty of delicious recipes on Highball.
If you're already a cocktail connoisseur, you probably know the frustration of whether your Whiskey Sour recipe needed 3/4 oz of lemon juice or an ounce. You probably wrote the recipe down on a slip of paper that you lost long ago.
Highball will provide you with a simple, organized interface for storing and sharing recipes. If you love homemade cocktails, download Highball here.
2. Bar Roulette
Everyone knows the scene. It's a Saturday night, and you're squad deep at a bar in NYC. Your crew collectively decides they want to leave, so you file onto the street. Everyone's shouting out suggestions about where to go.
The tragedy of this situation is, no one can agree on a bar.
Bar Roulette solves that problem. It pools together the collective strengths of Uber and Yelp to jerk you out of that routine you've developed; the one where you continuously go to the same bars over and over again.
You use your Uber account to log onto the Bar Roulette site, set the distance you're willing to travel, and the app will pick a top-rated bar on Yelp. When the Uber arrives, your driver knows where you're going and you don't! You won't know what bar it is until you arrive. How fun!
Get Bar Roulette here.
3. MiniBar
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MiniBar clues you into the best selection of wine, spirits, and beer from local stores. Then, after a few clicks, they bring the party (we mean the alcohol) to your door in 30-60 minutes.
MiniBar is an excellent alcohol app for situations when you accidentally drank all the alcohol before the party met its natural end. Everyone knows there's nothing that can chase away a party crowd faster than running out of beer.
With MiniBar, the party doesn't have to end just because the keg kicked. You can just hit them up, and they'll bring you the beer you need to keep the party bumping.
They'll also offer advice on what to order for a group size, case discounts, and recommendations. Get it here.
4. Lush
Lush, dubbed a simple and beautiful drink mixing app, has enough variety to serve a different drink for every day of the year.
That is a lot of drink recipes! It would require hundreds of bottles, that's for sure.
Using Lush, with its smooth interface (almost as smooth as a shot of high quality tequila) helps you learn mixology proportions through pictures. You can see the ingredients of a drink split up into sections, so you know how much of each to use.
They've also got drinks organized into sections like girls' night, classics, and brunch. You can also select ingredients you've already got in your apartment, and Lush will spit out a recipe that uses them.
Basically, your parties just got a whole lot more fun. Download Lush here.
5. B4RM4N
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With B4RM4N, you'll become a cocktail hero. It comes with an LED, which communicates with your phone over Bluetooth Low Energy.
Are abstract measurements like "ounce" and "cup" much too difficult to deal with?
While making any of the hundreds of apps stored in B4RM4N's arsenal, you'll be able to use its LEDs to know when to stop pouring. So the app tells you what ingredient to use, and the LED tells you enough is enough.
Cocktail mixing has never been this simple, nor this much fun. Really, it's foolproof. You'll have top notch parties with delicious cocktails in your apartment before you know it. Download B4RM4N here.
,6. Drizly
Alcohol, delivered anywhere within NYC, in under an hour. Sounds pretty amazing, doesn't it?
The best part about Drizly? Well, besides the fact that you never have to leave your apartment to get completely shwasted, there's no price markups. The alcohol brought to your apartment is the same price it'd be in the liquor store. Which we really, really appreciate.
You can also shop thousands of alcohol items available in your area. So if you've really, really got your heart set on that bottle of Gnarly Head, you don't have to be crest fallen when they don't have it in stock at your local liquor store for some reason.
Find it at a nearby liquor store with ease. Thanks Drizly. Download it here.
7. Glassful
glassful You're enjoying not having to work on Monday, aren't you? Why don't you give us the job of curating the wine for you, that's another task conveniently taken care of... 🍷🔜 #letthegoodtimesflow # wineclub
Obsessed with wine? Perfect. Looking to impress someone else who's obsessed with wine? Even better.
Glassful delivers hand-picked wines, tailored to your palate, to your door every month. Which is excellent for several reasons. The first, is that not having wine in your apartment when you need it for the spur of the moment is a bummer.
The second is that learning about unique wines from all over the world is the only way to improve your palate. How will you know what wine to order at a fancy NYC wine bar if you've never tried any of them?
Now, with Glassful, you'll know which wine you love already. You'll also be able to impress your wine-obsessed friends by having wines they've never heard of. Most importantly, you'll be fully stocked for your next wine emergency.
8. Swig
Are you a drinker? Is the only thing you love more than drinking looking at pictures of alcohol? Or do you love drinking alcohol first and taking pictures second?
The point is, it doesn't matter. Swig is the Instagram of alcohol, and it's the perfect place to store all the pictures of yourself drinking all the drinks you've tried.
Now you can catalogue that delicious margarita you had at the Gansevoort. The perfect Hurricane you drank at White Horse Tavern? You'll never forget it, because you have a picture on Swig with which to commemorate it.
You can also see what your friends' drinking lives are like, which is as we can all tell by Facebook's success, what we all really want. Get Swig here.
9. Swill
Let's say it's a Friday night, and you’re having a date over to drink and chill. You take a shower, get ready, and your date arrives. You start downing beers and getting buzzed. The vibe gets strong.
Suddenly, the need for whiskey, tequila, or vodka is immense. It’s okay if you want rum or gin instead. Really, the problem is that you went into the night thinking you wouldn’t drink hard alcohol and now, well, you need it.
Don’t stress! You don’t need to hightail it two blocks to the liquor store. You could just hit up our pals at Swill. They’ll bring you that bottle of Jose Cuervo you need in 60 minutes or fewer. Close one!
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