Since the iPhone 4 came out recently, we’ve decided to assemble a list of the best iPhone apps that apply to drinking. Some of them are practical and others are just crazy, but they’re all useful!
Pocket Cocktails: $4.99
If you are fed up with the conscious effort required to remember and choose a unique cocktail, use Pocket Cocktails before you start your evening. The great thing about this app is that you can hit up the grocery store on your way home from work on Friday night, and easily pick up the ingredients for some cocktails with little effort.
The list that Pocket Cocktails offers is very extensive. You can look up practically any drink under the sun by name, or by ingredient. So, if all you have in your apartment is a few ketchup packets, an orange and a ¼ bottle of gin, you may be able to figure out a drink. The app has a sleek interface and, if you like to impress people as much as I do by feigning legitimate bartender skills, you can use this handy little tool to make some drinks without even mentioning it to your guests – act like you are text messaging someone while you make a Japanese Slipper Martini.
Sloshspot: Free This app truly will help you in situations where you are in a new city or if you are sick of going to the same old places. Because the Sloshspot community is accessible via the app, you can use this feature to see what events have recently been updated in your town, who goes to certain bars as regulars, and where some of your Sloshspot friends are going each night.
There is also information regarding specials, drink promotions, and other information that will come in handy when picking where to spend your evenings. If you need a change of scenery, or if your decision on where to go depends on who else is going/performing there, this is quite the tool.
Beer Pad: $4.99 For the beer aficionado, this app works as a beer journal to record your thoughts on the beers you drink. You can take notes, rate the beers you try, take a picture of the bottle for future reference and look up beers you’ve tried in the past. BeerPad will also remember everything you’ve said and use it as a reference guide for future. It’s $4.99 but if beer is your game, this is one cool app.
Wine Pad: $4.99
Same app as above, except for those who prefer wine. Contains all the same features as Beer Pad.
iBeer: $2.99
iBeer is an awesome app. It is simply a screen that looks like a glass of beer, sloshes around like beer, you can even pretend to drink it like beer! Here are some humorous ways that iBeer can be used:
1. You may have invited your buddy with a drinking problem who still wanted to go out with the guys. He can order diet Cokes all night long, and hold this to show off that he still has a good sense of irony about the disease.
2. If you brought a designated driver and he feels like pulling this joke: “Hey guys look what I got!” This is like the fantasy football of beer-drinking. Well worth your $2.99.
3. You were cut off from the bartender because you drank too much. This app is perfect to spite that bartender with. Simply spend half as much money as the next drink would have cost to buy this app and drink a beer while loudly yelling obscenities at him/her while shaking your new electronic beer in the air all the way up until Captain Beef working the door comes over to pin your arms behind your head.
Don’t Dial!
Drunk dialing can be a dangerous habit. How many times have you had one too many drinks and decided, “Hey, I bet ______(Insert name of ex-girlfriend/boyfriend who dumped you a few months ago because you did stupid things when you were drunk and you were an embarrassment for him/her to be seen in public with. He/she has now moved on and is very happily dating someone else, and oh by the way, you two haven’t spoken since the break-up.) is ready to get back together now. I’m gonna call her/him. He’ll/She’ll want me back for sure!”?
Luckily, there is an iPhone app called, “Don’t Dial!” that prevents this catastrophe from causing almost certain embarrassment. Before you start drinking, you can open up the app, where you then select certain contacts that you think you may be inclined to drunk dial later in the night. Don’t Dial will block these contacts until a prescribed time (some options are 8AM the next morning, 12 hours from time of blocking, 24 hours from time of blocking, etc.), or you can ask a friend to set up a password for you so that you cannot access these contacts.
