From an empty menu to a drink your guests can order.
Here is how a new drink gets from an idea to your guests' phones, with The House Pour doing the looking up and you making the choices.
A guest opens your menu.Nothing to pour tonight, not yet.
The guest menu with no drinks, saying the bar is still waking up.
You add Whiskey Sour.Type the name and The House Pour goes looking for recipes and a photo.
The Drinks screen with the add drink form and Whiskey Sour typed in.
You pick the recipe you like.Three versions to compare. Nothing is saved until you choose one.
The Review screen with the drink photo, three recipe versions with the standard shaken version with egg white selected, and Reject job, Find more, Edit first and Use this recipe buttons.
It tells you what you're missing.Whiskey Sour stays off the menu until you have lemon juice and egg white.
The Whiskey Sour drink page reading Missing Lemon juice, Egg white, unavailable until restocked, with its recipe below.
You restock.Both are on your shopping list. Tick them off at the store and they're back in stock.
The shopping list with Lemon juice checked off and Egg white still to buy, each marked missing from Whiskey Sour.
Your guests see it tonight.Whiskey Sour is on the menu, poured from the bourbon on your shelf.
The guest menu on Mixed Drinks with Whiskey Sour as its one drink.
Every screen is the app itself, shown with an example bar.
Recipes
See which of your bottles go into each drink.
Every recipe lists its ingredients and measures. Tap an ingredient to see the bottles you have that fit it, so bourbon opens to show your Buffalo Trace and Maker's Mark.
Example recipe
Whiskey Sour
shaken · ROCKS
Ingredients
Bourbon2 oz
Available in the bar
Buffalo Trace
Maker's Mark
Lemon juicefresh¾ oz
Simple syrup¾ oz
Egg white½ oz
Angostura bittersOptional2 dash
Available in the bar
Angostura
Instructions
Dry shake bourbon, lemon, syrup and egg white without ice.
Add ice, shake again and strain over fresh ice.
Dot the foam with bitters.
The Whiskey Sour recipe card. The Bourbon line is expanded and lists Buffalo Trace and Maker's Mark as available. Angostura bitters is marked optional.
A recipe with its matching bottles, shown with an example bar.
Optional garnishes stay in the recipe without keeping a drink off the menu.
Keep more than one version of a recipe and choose the one you pour.
Guests see the same bottle choices when they open a drink.
Phone and desktop
Run your bar from the couch or the counter.
The House Pour works in the browser on your phone, tablet or computer. Add it to your phone's home screen to open it like any other app.
housepour.example/admin/inventory
A laptop-width browser window showing the Inventory screen laid out for a desktop, with the category selector and add button on one row and stock controls beside each bottle.
Inventory on a computer, shown with an example bar.
The layout adjusts to each screen, from a phone in one hand to a full desktop.
Notifications work from the home screen app on iPhone.
Ways to get started
Choose how you’d like to run The House Pour
Manage your home bar on your own hardware or choose our hosted service.
Run it yourself
Run The House Pour on your own hardware. This path is for home-bar owners comfortable managing their own setup.
