Whether you are the connoisseur or the social drinker or the souse, there are some drinking apps out there for the drinker in all of us. The following are the top five for the iOS plus one for responsible drinking.
1. Mixologist ($0.99)
This is the drinking man’s app, for the Donald Drapers and Barney Gumbles alike. With a virtual liquor cabinet of up to 1,300 ingredients, you can find a drink for almost occasion. The app also includes recommendations for the proper glassware to use (not everything should be served in a plastic tumbler). It even has GPS to direct you to the nearest watering holes if your needs are a little more immediate.
2. GetDrunker ($0.99)
This is the no-holds-barred drinking app. It’s the kind of app you want to have when you look in your fridge and all you see is Coke, vodka, cranberry juice, and cream, which yields no fewer than seven drink possibilities (from the 2-parts-vodka, six-parts-Coke Dr. Zhivago to the 5-parts-Coke, 1-part-cranberry juice, 1-part vodka Mersh). With a list of the 39 most common items to be found in a frat house fridge, this app is sure to please the latenight drinker whose already had a few and does not have the brainpower left to consider a larger set of ingredients.
3. Brewski Me (Free)
Brewski Me is the winner of the best beer app in the first annual Brewsies, a team of self-described beer enthusiasts and Disney fans, who like to “share what (they) are drinking and other thoughts on both beer and Disney.” Anyway, the app—Brewski Me is the “beer drinking app, made by beer drinkers specifically for beer drinkers.” The Styles page is particularly useful if you want to get to know what a specific type of beer is like. Just be careful when you select Drink to find a place near you that serves your beer selection. You might be sent to the nearest pet store (this was one of the options I was given).
4. Wine Enthusiast Guide ($3.99)
Like the price tag of the app suggests, this is for the serious drinker. That said, this is a great app for both the novice and the connoisseur.
Have you ever picked up a bottle of wine and read the description or heard a waiter talk about the vino’s velvety notes and wondered what they were talking about? Well, this app also includes a list of 1,400 terms that cover all aspects of wine appreciation. It will also help you pick the right kind of wine according to food, taste, and price range so that you are not stuck bringing the default Piat D’or or Blue Nun bottle to your next dinner party.
5. Drinking Games (Free)
This app is for the end of the night, when you’ve already had a few too many and you just want to have a little fun. From the classic “Thumbs” to something called the “Beeramid,” you are sure to find the right game to finally get yourself thrown out of the bar. And if you are feeling inspired and come up with a game of your own, you can even e-mail the developer the idea to have it added to the app’s list of games.
Plus One App for Responsible Drinking
Finally, we will add an app for the socially-responsible drinker (that should be all of you). Last Call is a free app that will calculate your blood alcohol content (BAC) and will make appropriate drink suggestions given what you have already knocked back, so if you’ve paced yourself, you just might be okay to have that one last Rob Roy at the end of the night.
So, there you go. Have fun, drink responsibly—and please don’t forget to tip the cocktail waitress (they have memories like killer whales).



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