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.
Non-Alcoholic, by design
Two dozen alcohol-free drinks built to stand beside the rest, engineered for balance and bitterness in their own right. 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.