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Choose a book
Decent Cocktails has the recipes from two great cocktail bar books, The PDT Cocktail Book and Death & Co: Modern Classic Cocktails. Pick one on the first page; the name at the top left takes you back to it from anywhere.
Many classics are in both books, often made a little differently. On a recipe, the other book's version is one click away.
Search
Type in the search box at the top of every page: a cocktail, an ingredient or a kind of spirit. The matches appear as you type; press Enter to see them all.
Ingredients
Every ingredient has its own page: a photo of the bottle, what it's paired with most often, its substitutes, and every cocktail that uses it.
Pick one of its pairings to see only the cocktails that use both.
By spirit
On a book's home page, choose a base spirit and, if you like, something it's mixed with (gin with lemon, rum with lime) to see just those drinks. Spirits in the menu lists them all.
A recipe
Each recipe lists its ingredients in grams and ounces, with the glass, the garnish and the method, step by step. The facts panel shows how big, how strong and how sweet the drink is.
Making a round
Change the number of drinks and every amount follows, and so do the alcohol, sugar and total weight.
Less boozy
Tap the facts panel and type how much alcohol you want in your drink (or how big you want it, or how sweet). The whole recipe shrinks or grows to match.
Similar cocktails
Under each recipe are its closest cousins: the drinks in the book that share most of its ingredients. Each says what's the same, what's different and how it tastes by comparison.
Make it on the Half Decent Scale
With a Half Decent Scale, press Make this cocktail with the Half Decent Scale on a recipe and connect the scale (Chrome on a computer or Android phone; on an iPhone or iPad, install the free Beacio app first, then any browser works). Put your shaker or glass on: each step zeroes the scale and shows how much to pour, going green when you hit the target.
After the last step you see how close you came to the recipe and how strong your drink really is.
Your Bar
Log in with your free decentespresso.com account and tell Your Bar which bottles you have: a bottle by name (Campari) or a kind (any tequila). You can keep a bar for each place, such as Home and Office.
You can make lists every cocktail you can make now, and with which of your bottles. What to buy next names the bottles that would unlock the most new drinks.
Missing ingredients
Once Your Bar knows your bottles, every cocktail shows what you're missing. On a recipe, a missing ingredient comes with substitutes, marked when you already own them. You can also hide everything you can't make yet.
Wishlist and Made
Save cocktails to your Wishlist. Make one on the scale and it's marked Made, with the date; you can add a note about how it turned out. Your Bar shows both lists.
Languages
Decent Cocktails is in eight languages, recipes included:
AI assistants
AI assistants can use Decent Cocktails too: it has an API, an MCP server, and a guide for them at llms.txt. Connect one to your account and it can read and change Your Bar and your lists (but nothing else in your account).