Bartending prowess with Mixologist

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I won't pretend to know enough about mixing drinks to get the most from this, but Mixologist has been on my 'must look' list for a while now, so let's at least highlight its major functions here on AAS. Essentially, it's a UI into a massive database of cocktails, punches, shooters and other mixed drinks, including suggestions on what to make should you only have a few alcoholic ingredients to hand. Recommended.

Here's Mixologist in action, you'll instantly get the idea:

 

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Production values for this application are very high - the loading screen is a tumbler filling gradually with alcohol, and there are beautifully rendered backdrops throughout; showing multiple ways of browsing through the extensive drinks database.

 

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Mixologist is written in Qt and works quickly and smoothly, here browsing through specific drink recipes, none of which I'd ever heard of (but then I don't get out much!); showing the detail screen for a particular cocktail (and yes, I believe the missed 'e' on the end of 'Absolut' is intentional!)

 

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The 'Cabinet' lets you put in the ingredients you have in your liquor cabinet, in fairly extreme detail - Mixologist then filters out all but the drinks you can actually make with what you have.

 

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Telling the application exactly which whiskey I have to hand - with a nice backgrounder on every drink in the database if needed; seeing the drinks that I can make with my particular cabinet collection.

 

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In the 'Random' mode, there's a fruit machine like set of spinners, tap on 'Mix it up' to let Mixologist combine drink elements randomly (dare I say 'drunkenly'?) and pop up recipes that you might never have thought of: 'Vodka Sour' and 'Cherry Snowplow', anyone?

 

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Finally, 'Bartending' and 'More' provide definitions of the various tools of the trade (just in case) and the usual settings and 'about' screens.

A professionally implemented and possibly very useful little application - though I'll give it a miss personally, I'm more a 'pint of Carlsberg' man!...

Mixologist is £1 in the Nokia Store.