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5/5 in the App Store

Scan bottles, build your collection, and explore spirits culture — from distilleries and cocktails to bars and stories — all in one app.

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Distilleries

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Spirits

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Cocktails

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Bars

Two ways to enter Barlist

Whether you’re here to explore spirits or collaborate with us, Barlist is built to connect culture, knowledge, and people.

Discover & use Barlist

For curious drinkers, enthusiasts, and collectors.

Scan bottles, build your bar, and explore a deeper, more cultural approach to spirits.

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Collaborate with Barlist

For distilleries, federations, institutions, and industry partners. Co-create meaningful editorial experiences and reach a premium audience of spirits enthusiasts.

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01 – Scan your bottle

Scan your bottle. Get the full story.

A quick scan unlocks the essentials behind what’s in your glass — from distillery and origin to style, tasting notes, and related cocktails.

Fast bottle recognition
Rich spirit profiles
Built for bars, shops, and tastings

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02 – Collect & share

Build your bar.
Make it yours.

Create your personal spirits collection, organize bottles into custom sets, and shape a bar that reflects your taste — from classics to rare finds.

Create collections and sub-collections
Curate your profile and bar identity
Share your discoveries

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03 – Discover & learn

Go beyond the bottle.

Barlist connects spirits to the wider culture around them — distilleries, cocktails, bars, regions, and stories — so every discovery leads to another.

Explore spirits, cocktails, and distilleries
Discover bars and places on the map
Learn through stories and guides

Explore guides & stories

Built for enthusiasts.
Trusted by the industry.

Barlist is built for people who care deeply about spirits and respected by the professionals shaping the industry around them.

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What our users say about Barlist

★★★★★

Barlist changed the way I discover spirits. It feels considered, elegant, and actually useful every time I open it.

The bottle scan and related recommendations make it easy to move from curiosity to collecting without losing the sense of story behind each drink.

James Porter

Collector and whisky enthusiast

★★★★★

There’s finally an app that treats spirits with the same depth and polish that music and fashion apps give to their worlds.

I use it to keep track of bottles, compare profiles, and share new finds with friends. The whole thing feels premium without becoming heavy.

Clara Bennett

Cocktail lover and private collector

★★★★★

What stands out is how easy it is to go from scanning a bottle to learning the distillery story and finding cocktails that fit it.

Barlist makes discovery feel natural. It is polished enough for enthusiasts and simple enough to keep using every week.

Ethan Walsh

Bar manager and spirits buyer

FROM THE BARLIST JOURNAL

Stories, guides, and spirits culture

From beginner guides to bar selections and distillery stories, our editorial content helps you discover the world behind the bottle.

Trends and Innovations

China’s Changing Drinks Market: Younger Adults, Convenience, and the Decline of Banquet Culture

For much of the past two decades, some of the most valuable parts of China’s drinks market were built around rooms larger than the drinking occasion itself. Business banquets, formal dining, corporate entertainment, and high-value gifting supported demand for premium baijiu, imported wine, and prestige spirits. Bottles performed several roles at once. They marked hierarchy, […]

August 1, 2026

Community and Lifestyle

Black Tot Day 2026: Rum, Discipline, and the End of a Royal Navy Tradition

The Black Tot Day rum history begins with a contradiction at the heart of naval life. For centuries, rum was not simply a drink on Royal Navy ships. It was ration, reward, routine, social currency, disciplinary problem, imperial supply chain, and symbol of the lower deck. By the time the final daily tot was issued […]

July 31, 2026

Distilleries & Producers

The Whisky Loch: Overproduction, Lost Distilleries, and the Ghosts That Returned

The Whisky Loch was not a natural disaster, though it left parts of Scotch whisky looking like a flooded landscape. It was a man-made surplus, created when production confidence outran demand. In the 1970s, Scotch whisky expanded with the conviction of an industry that believed the world would keep drinking more. Stills ran, casks filled, […]

July 30, 2026

Aperitivo -Evolution of Cocktail Culture

Partnership

In partnership with International Bartenders Association

Aperitivo and the Evolution of Cocktail Culture

Aperitivo as Bartending Practice Aperitivo occupies a fundamental place in the history and professional practice of bartending. More than a drink served before dinner, it represents a cultural ritual connecting gastronomy, hospitality and cocktail craftsmanship. For the bartender, aperitivo service prepares the palate, establishes the atmosphere of the bar and sets the pace for the […]

July 15, 2026

From Beer to Bourbon and Kentucky Breweries

Discovery and Education

From Beer to Bourbon: Why Kentucky Breweries Are Moving into Distilling

From beer to bourbon is becoming one of the more revealing movements in Kentucky drinks culture. The reported plan by Country Boy Brewing to open a Kentucky distillery is not only a company expansion story. It sits inside a larger shift in how craft beverage businesses think about production, hospitality, brand loyalty, and long-term survival […]

July 12, 2026

Distilleries & Producers

James Buchanan & Co: The Blending House That Turned Scotch into a Modern Brand

The history of James Buchanan & Co belongs to a crucial moment in Scotch whisky’s transformation. In the late nineteenth century, Scotch was no longer only a regional spirit sold through merchants, casks, clubs, hotels, and local trade. It was becoming a bottled product with labels, reputation, visual memory, and commercial reach. The whisky itself […]

July 11, 2026

History

Bottled in Bond: How Fraud and Adulteration Created an American Whiskey Standard

Bottled in Bond for whiskey history begins with a problem that was larger than whiskey itself. In the late 19th century, the American spirits market was difficult for ordinary consumers to trust. Bottles could carry respectable names while holding liquid that had been stretched, coloured, flavoured, blended beyond recognition, or presented as aged whiskey when […]

July 9, 2026

Tres Monos Bar -the Negroni - Argentine Cocktail

Bars and Cocktails

How Tres Monos Reframed the Negroni as an Argentine Cocktail Story

The Negroni has travelled further than most cocktails because it is easy to recognise but difficult to exhaust. Its structure is fixed enough to be remembered, yet open enough to be interpreted. That balance explains why bars across the world continue to return to it, not only as a drink, but as a framework for […]

July 6, 2026

Aberfeldy Distillery -Dewar’s Global Scotch Identity

Distilleries & Producers

Aberfeldy Distillery: The Highland Malt Behind Dewar’s Global Scotch Identity

The history of Aberfeldy Distillery begins with a problem that every successful blender eventually faces: how to protect character when demand outgrows supply. By the late 1800s, Dewar’s had moved far beyond the ambitions of a local Perth wine and spirits merchant. The family business had become one of the rising names in blended Scotch, selling […]

July 5, 2026

Sweet Heat Cocktail Culture- Fruit and Spice Changing Modern Cocktail

Trends and Innovations

Sweet Heat: How Fruit and Spice Are Changing Modern Cocktail Culture

Sweet heat cocktail culture is not as new as its current trend language suggests. Fruit and chilli have shared space for generations in markets, kitchens, street food, pickles, sauces, snacks, and drinks across Mexico, wider Latin America, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. Mango and chilli, pineapple and pepper, citrus and salt, tamarind and spice, watermelon […]

July 4, 2026