Beginner Guides

A Cocktail Starter Shopping List

A straightforward guide to choosing a few useful ingredients for your first cocktails at home.

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The short answer

Start small with a spirit you enjoy, a few mixers, fresh citrus and ice. Enter what you have in the Bartifier app to see cocktails sorted by your available ingredients.

Shop for your first drinks

Choose ingredients you will actually use.

Begin with one spirit, versatile mixers or juices, fresh citrus and plenty of ice. The app can suggest cocktails from the ingredients you enter, so you do not need to buy a full home bar at once.

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Lemons, limes and fresh mint on a wooden cutting board

Know what you provide

Bartifier brings the guidance. You bring the ingredients.

Bartifier is the measuring cup. You provide spirits or alcohol if using them, mixers, juices or soda, ice and any finishing ingredients, plus the shaker, glass or container your drink needs.

Let the app suggest a drink

Start with what you already have.

Enter your available ingredients in the app, then explore the cocktail options it surfaces. Choose the strength and number of glasses, then follow one measured pour at a time.

Want the measuring handled one step at a time?

Bartifier pairs a measuring cup with free app guidance, so you can follow each quantity and pour without memorising cocktail ratios.

You still choose the drink, provide the ingredients, pour and mix. Bartifier keeps the instructions clear while you do it.

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Keep the next step simple

A useful starter shelf does not need to be large. Choose a few ingredients you like, see what the app suggests and add more only when you need them.

  1. Start with one useful change

    Choose one spirit and a few flexible mixers or juices.

  2. Prepare before you pour

    Keep fresh citrus and enough ice ready before you begin.

  3. Choose the guidance you need

    Enter your ingredients in the app and choose from the cocktails it shows.

Better cocktails. Brighter moments.

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