PDT Cocktails
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food & Drink | $9.99 | Martin Doudoroff LLC | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
- 400 meticulously tested cocktail recipes
- 69 recipes for PDT’s house-made ingredients
- Ingredient profiles that include photos and concise reference material
- Photographs of every cocktail and every ingredient—over 1000 in total, each taken at PDT
PDT Cocktails can be used independently or as a companion to The PDT Cocktail Book, which the app augments with new PDT creations, newly relevant historic recipes, and revisions to existing recipes based on available products and continued testing by PDT’s expert mixologists.
PDT Cocktails allows bartenders of all skill-levels to:
- Search recipes by base spirit, cocktail-type, creator, and date of creation
- Display measurements in ounces, centiliters, milliliters, or gills
- Check off the ingredients you’ve got and this app will show you which drinks you can make
- Filter the recipes on multiple criteria with just a few taps
- Flag recipes and tag favorites; create custom lists of recipes
- Annotate recipes with comments and cumulative likes and dislikes and build up a chronological history of your explorations
- Ingredient definitions included
- Sync your ingredient inventory, favorites and flagged, custom lists and journal entries across our entire suite of apps and over as many iOS devices as you like, using our free sync service
- Universal app, works nearly identically on both platforms
Reviews
Great
ParsleyMe
Always loved the PDT book and this is perfect because it lists what you can make with the ingredients you have. Well done!
Been waiting a year for this
Ed Anger
Awesome to have PDT recipes on my phone! It's missing a couple of my favorites from the book, but does have some additional recipes. The entire family of cocktail apps from this company are fantastic, I look forward to seeing them updated.
Solid. Great UI.
Schot B
I've got about 100-150 different cocktail ingredients at home, but sometimes I struggle with creative ways to combine them. You add your inventory of ingredients and it easily guides you to cocktails you can make either entirely or partially. A great resource for a home bartender. My wife has also taken a liking to it since I'm not always home, yet she would still like to be able to make drinks for herself based on what's in the cabinet.
Far beyond those of mortal bars
Gus The Wage
Was looking for a good cocktail recipe app, this was not it, though I'm sure the recipes are top notch the ingredients to make them are far from what an at home bar could ever hold. Serious mixologists may find it useful for recipes but none of the recipes are simple to make. Cost of app is also a bit of a downer. Looking for a simple cocktail app for a whiskey smash recipes? look elsewhere
The best cocktail app
Meagancarrine
This is what I've been missing from my bar. Having loved the PDT book for years this is the perfect replacement. Load up your ingredients into the app and it tells you what cocktails you can make including substations for certain ingredients.
Fantastic. The BEST cocktail app.
heymerideth
Ok to start with, I have a PDT cocktail book so let's set aside the fact that I knew I'd love the recipe content. This is a fantastic effing app. Entering the contents of my home bar was a matter of switching toggles and, when done, I found that I could make 207 of 400 cocktails. I could quickly make a few infusions and syrups per the included recipes and up that number. I LOVE that the recipes tell me what my substitutions would be. It's so clever to show me a list of recipes that I'm 1 or 2 ingredients away from making. Often the missing ingredient is something easy to acquire like orange juice or raspberry jam or something I sub in. Normally I balk at paying over $1.99 for an app but this is my favorite new app and worth every bit of the price. I'm so glad I bought it. I guarantee that, much as I love my cocktail books, I will use this app more frequently than my library of books. Well done PDT!
Sours?
rgabel416
Seriously? $10 for a cocktail app that has an entire section of Sours, but no Whiskey Sour recipe? The original Sour. Come on guys. So much focus on fancy schmancy drinks that have you cooking up exotic pastes and infusions, which is fine, as long as you fully cover the basic classics. Who knows what else is missing? Not me, because this was a deal breaking omission.
Needs work
coppit
First let me say that this app has a lot of potential. I won't spend time on the good stuff. The app description covers that well. This is a long review because I can tell the app developers pay attention to detail. My biggest complaint is how ingredients are handled. They need to be organized first by type, subtype, then brand. (1) where do I find Gallo dry vermouth? Not under "g". I can't even find "vermouth". How do I enter Jose Cuervo tequila? Protip: use the search on the main screen. (Which reminds me. I should be able to pull down on the ingredients list to search it.) (2) Organizing the ingredients by specific brand doesn't make sense. The home bartender isn't going to have 15 different bottles of rum. (3) The app has some substitution logic, which is good, but a type/subtype/brand hierarchy would help the user understand the substitutions. e.g. Tequila/gold/Jose Cuervo Especial. There should be an "other" in the subtype in case the user's brand is not there. The app can then explain how good or bad a substitution is. e.g. The recipe calls for a specific brand of light rum, but all you have is Kraken spiced dark rum. It's 2 steps away in similarity. (Not the right brand or subtype.) As things are now I don't know which substitutions the app might use so I end up lying to the app, telling it I have all these similar ingredients that I don't have, to ensure more drinks are within 1 ingredient. The second big request is that there be some notion of popularity for different drink recipes. This could be collaborative or it could be set by experts. I want to explore new drinks but I don't know if I should buy a bottle of lillet for a specific drink which may not be popular. Maybe a section for top drinks?
Let down
dereklava
$10 is steep for an app but I was excited to check out some new cocktail recipes. Added by pretty solid home bar and was told I could make 17 of the 400 recipes. Ouch. So many obscure ingredients needed. Would become infinitely more useful if it also included classic cocktails; "forgot about that recipe" or "nice, didn't realize I had all the ingredients for that one".
Recipes Differ
Arabicsmith
Love the app. Would be nice if one could add personal notes and ratings. Also, I noticed that the Junior recipe lists the original proportions, not the updated variation in the PDT book. Wondering if this is the case for many other cocktails...
