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Turn a little curiosity into a recipe

Search cocktails, explore useful filters, and open recipes with their available ingredients and instructions.

The everyday friction.

A cocktail idea is easy to have and harder to narrow down. Sometimes you only know the ingredient, method, or kind of drink you want. A useful recipe catalog should welcome those half-formed ideas too.

A different way through.

RumDB pairs cocktail search with filters including family, method, and glassware. Detail views gather available ingredients, measurements, and instructions so discovery can become something you make. Explore a specific drink or use a few constraints to find a direction.

See the idea take shape.

Three moments in the experience. Explore the intended flow below.

  1. Search or browse the cocktail catalog
  2. Refine the selection
  3. Open a recipe and review what it needs
RumDB / Turn a little curiosity into a recipeIllustrative walkthrough

Start with an idea

Search for a name or ingredient when you know part of the answer.

The difference it can make.

Start with an idea

Search for a name or ingredient when you know part of the answer.

Narrow the possibilities

Use recipe categories and available preparation details to focus the list.

Keep the recipe together

Open ingredients and instructions in the same detail view.

Where it stands.

Good ideas deserve an honest description of where they are today.

In development

Recipe fields vary by entry, and the current global search screen searches cocktails rather than every RumDB category.

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