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Mise:Bar
Track every iteration.
The drink development journal built by someone who's stood behind the stick. Version control for cocktails.
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Track every iteration.
The drink development journal built by someone who's stood behind the stick. Version control for cocktails.
The Problem
You're six iterations into a house Negroni riff. The one from last Tuesday was the best — maybe? — but you adjusted the Campari and swapped the vermouth at the same time, and now you can't remember which change made the difference.
Your notes are split across a cocktail napkin somewhere behind the bar, a Notes app entry from three weeks ago, and a photo of a spec you texted to the bar manager that you can no longer find.
There are hundreds of cocktail apps on the App Store. Recipe collections. Spirit encyclopedias. Bar inventory trackers. Every one of them is designed for someone who wants to look up drinks created by others.
Not one was built for you — the person who creates drinks.
The Gap
Create a drink with structured ingredients — ounces, milliliters, dashes, barspoons. Add build method, glassware, garnish, and notes.
Build it. Taste it. Document what happened — balance, texture, aroma, what to change next time.
Tap "New Version." Mise:Bar duplicates your recipe and opens a fresh iteration. Your previous version is preserved exactly as it was.
Compare any two versions side by side. See exactly what changed — ingredients, quantities, techniques — in a beautiful, readable diff.
Create, taste, note, iterate, compare. It's how great drinks have always been developed — Mise:Bar just makes it effortless to track.
Be Honest
None of these are failures of discipline. They're failures of tooling.
The Solution
The Difference
Who It's For
Develop seasonal menus, house signatures, and rotating specials. Document your process, calculate pour costs, train staff on specs.
Build your personal repertoire — the body of drinks that define your style. Develop riffs with the rigor of a professional program.
Develop programs for multiple clients. Organized specs, cost analysis, and development records. Export and share.
You own a Japanese jigger and have opinions about ice. When you nail a house cocktail, you want to know exactly how to make it again.
A Tuesday with Mise:Bar
2:00 PM — You open the cocktail you started last week. The version timeline shows three previous iterations. Version 2 was the best — "balance good but needs more smoke presence." Version 3 went too far with the mezcal.
2:10 PM — You tap "Compare" between versions 2 and 3. The diff shows: mezcal went from 1.5 oz to 2 oz, lime stayed at 0.75 oz. Clear. You know what to adjust.
2:30 PM — You build version 4, taste it. This is the one. Five stars, "perfect smoke-fruit balance, saline lifts everything." You mark it as canonical.
2:35 PM — Pour cost: your mezcal is $45/bottle, passion fruit syrup costs $0.30/oz to make. At a $16 menu price, you're at 19%. Green light.
Total time spent on documentation: minutes, not hours. Nothing was lost. Every iteration is preserved.
Part of Something Bigger
When a drink is ready for service, tap "Send to Brigade." The spec appears in your bar manager's inbox, tagged as bar department. They can add it to the bar prep list, assign batching, and track execution.
Comments and feedback flow back to Mise:Bar for your development record. Kitchen and bar speaking the same language.
Mise:Bar is coming to iOS, iPadOS, and Mac.
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