A reference that tells the truth.
Bar Necessities is a cocktail reference first. The app is one expression of it; this site is another. Both stand on the same rule: every recipe is sourced.
Sourced from print
Every one of the 255 drinks is checked against a printed reference of record — the IBA list, the Savoy, Difford's, PUNCH, Death & Co. Real recipes, the way they're actually made.
Mocktails, designed
Two dozen alcohol-free drinks built to stand beside the rest — engineered for balance and bitterness, not subtracted from a recipe. They belong on the menu.
One vocabulary
The tier names, the glassware, the ingredient canon — identical on web and in the app. Learn a drink in one place, recognize it in the other.
The reference becomes a field tool.
My Bar tracks your shelf. The Bar Builder tells you the one bottle that unlocks the most new drinks. Jig — an AI bartender — works from what you actually have. And Open Bar shares it all with your guests.
Built by Surettech — software for human connection.