Cocktails From My Bar

Cocktails from my bar

Given a photo of someone's liquor cabinet — or a typed list of what they own — work out which cocktails they can make right now, and which they are one bottle short of.

Steps

1. Inventory the bottles. From the photo or list, identify every spirit, liqueur, mixer, juice, and bitters. Read labels carefully.

2. Normalise to generic ingredients. cocktail.glass recipes use generic ingredient names, not brands. Map each bottle to its base type:

   • "Bombay Sapphire" → gin
   • "Cointreau" → triple sec
   • "Martini Rosso" → sweet vermouth
   • "Tanqueray No. Ten" → gin

   Keep distinct products distinct: sloe gin is not gin, and orange bitters is not orange.

3. Ask cocktail.glass what is makeable. Call the find_makeable_cocktails tool on the MCP server at https://cocktail.glass/mcp, passing the full list of normalised ingredients in a single call. If you cannot reach the MCP server, fetch the whole catalogue from https://cocktail.glass/cocktails.json and match locally: a cocktail is makeable when every one of its ingredients is covered by the list. Garnishes are optional and plain water is assumed on hand.

4. Report two lists. "Make now" — drinks they have every ingredient for. "One bottle away" — drinks missing exactly one ingredient, naming the missing ingredient for each. Order each list simplest drink first.

5. Always link the recipe. Every cocktail on cocktail.glass has a page at https://cocktail.glass/<slug>/. Link each suggestion so a person can open the full recipe.

Notes

• The catalogue is 500 cocktails, read-only and public — no key, no login.
• find_makeable_cocktails already returns both lists (makeable and almostMakeable), so prefer it over matching ingredients by hand.