A free bar tool, built on The Honest Pour
Build it.
Prove it.
You build the drink the way you'd build it on the rail. Pour Proof shows you what the water, the sugar and the alcohol are actually doing to it. Then it helps you fix the one that's off.
- Free
- Runs in a browser
- Works on your phone
- No sign-up
What it does
The spec sheet, with the water on it.
Dilution is the ingredient nobody writes on the spec sheet, and it's the one that decides whether the drink lands. Here it's a number you can see and argue with.
A panel that moves
Change two ounces to three and finished volume, dilution, ABV, sugar and acid all move with it. Live.
Fix it before you pour it
Too sweet, too thin, too hot. Pick what you tasted and the ingredient to move, and it shows you the next build first. Keep it or undo it.
The real water number
Ice, technique, shake time. Weigh the tin before and after and give it the measured water instead of an estimate.
894 drinks to start from
Including 302 historical builds from bar manuals of 1862, 1882 and 1906. Load the old version straight into the workbench.
Wash-line and shake scan
Map the finished volume onto the glass in front of you, or time your shake. Nothing is saved. Nothing is uploaded.
Your specs stay yours
The spec and what you thought of it are saved together, on your device. Next shift you're not starting over.
How it works
Three moves. Same as behind the bar.
Build the spec
Pick your base, set the pour, add the rest. Ounces, the way you'd call it out.
Watch the numbers
Anything it doesn't know, it says it doesn't know. It never fills a blank with a zero.
Taste, then correct
Tell it what's off. Preview the change. Save the version that works with your notes on it.
Cold is a spec.
The Honest Pour, 2.4 Glassware + ChillWhere it came from
A bartender's playbook, running.
Pour Proof came out of a book. Ron Mosholder wrote The Honest Pour about the job, and it isn't just a recipe book. It's a bartender's playbook.
Same thinking, two places. The book explains why the drink lands. The app shows you the numbers on the one in your tin.
Published by Organized Chaos Press.
You don't get paid for the drink. You get paid for what happens around the drink.
The Honest PourQuestions
The short answers.
Does it cost anything?
No. Open it in a browser and use it.
Do I need an account?
No. Everything you save lives on your device. That also means clearing your browser data clears your archive, so a spec you care about is worth writing down somewhere else too.
Will it work without a signal?
Put it on your home screen and it works offline. iPhone: Safari, Share, Add to Home Screen. Android: Chrome, menu, Install app.
Will it tell me a drink is good?
No. It tells you what's in the glass, not whether you'll like it, and nothing about what's safe to serve. ABV assumes additive volumes, acid is citric equivalent, sugar is grams. Where it's estimating, it says estimate on the screen.
Do I need the book to use it?
No. The app stands on its own. The book is where the thinking behind it lives.