Just so you Android users don’t feel left out, we have complied a list of the top five drinking apps available at the Android Market. Although some of the ones we included for the iOS devices also exist for Android, we wanted to provide you with a more ‘exclusive’ selection.
1. 10001 Cocktails (Free)
As the name implies, sometimes it is not quality, but quantity. For your 1001 Arabian Nights you have a drink and cocktail recipe to satisfy any pallet (and even a few to satisfy no pallet). This is an all-in-one kind of app; you have to applaud it at least for sheer effort.
2. Bartender (Free)
This has user-generated content, so you will equally find gems as you will backwoods swill. This is your crowdsourced drinking man’s app. So if you are feeling that call of inspiration (or the tingle of inebriation), you can upload the recipe for your Sierra Maestra, Cuban Revolution–inspired Red Rebel to the database (shot of Havana Club Rum, soda, and a smash of cane-soaked strawberries).
3. Cocktail Hero (Free)
This is the app you turn to when you just have select ingredients and you don’t know what to do with them. Ultimately, these types of apps are never as creative as you would want them to be, because if you just have some Dijon mustard, an egg, Tobasco sauce, gin, and a banana, you want to be able to make some sort of concoction out of it that won’t kill you or your guests. Perhaps you just have to wait for the database to be expanded.
4. Liquor Run Mobile (Free)
This is a great app that not only tracks the nearest liquor stores and their hours of operation, it also can tell you where to find your favorite brew, because let’s face it, not everyone carries a six pack of Hop Circle or He’Brew, “The chosen beer.” There is also a database of cocktail recipes for your ‘spiritual’ get togethers.
5. Blood Alcohol Calculator (Free)
Finally, no responsible list of drinking apps would be remiss to add a blood alcohol calculator. With a simple calculation involving your body weight, what you are drinking, number of drinks, and length of time imbibing, you can calculate your BAC. It does not, however, account for gender differences, but then again, maybe the developers feel that it would be sexist to suggest that a woman cannot hold her liquor as well as man can. Equality, even in inebriation!
This is by no means a definitive list. Just one to get you started. But please remember to drink responsibly, kids (you too grown-ups).



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