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PLBartenderVersion: 1.0.7

Free
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2.5 out of 5 mice Reviewed Aug 22, 2008 Reviewed Unknown
325 user reviews

Developer: Pocket Lion, LLC

Age rating: 9+

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Compatibility: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch
Requires iPhone OS 2.0 or later

Filed Under: Lifestyle

Everybody needs to have skills! If you want bartender skills, then look no further, because with PLBartender you've got them.

You get a customizable database of drinks, you can create your very own drink and add it to your collection. Perfect for the bartender student or the experienced bartender.

Features:
Many well known drinks.
Make your own custom drinks.
Add drinks to your Favorites area.
Modify any drink and make it your own.
Search your drinks.
Email your drinks to others.

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Reviewed Unknown

A pair of cocktail databases step up to the bar in our roundup

by Ben Boychuk, Macworld.com

“Cocktails are now so numerous,” the journalist H.L. Mencken wrote 60 years ago, “that no bartender, however talented, can remember how to make all of them, or even half of them.” Mencken added, “No man short of a giant could try them all, and nine-tenths of them, I believe, would hardly be worth trying.” This from a man who once hired a mathematician to calculate how many drinks could be mixed from a well-stocked bar. The answer: 17,864,392,788. “We tried 273 at random,” Mencken reported, “and found all of them good.”