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

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

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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.

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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

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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.

Travel & Experience

The Best 5 Bars in Dubai: Cocktail Bars Defining the City in 2026

Bars in Dubai have evolved into one of the city’s most distinctive expressions of hospitality, combining ambitious cocktail programmes, international bartending talent, rooftop venues, hotel bars and increasingly sophisticated local concepts. From intimate speakeasies and neighbourhood drinking spots to destination bars overlooking the Dubai skyline, the city offers a drinking culture shaped by both global […]

August 19, 2026

Partnership

In partnership with International Bartenders Association

Experience and the Atmosphere of the Bar

A bar is encountered as a sequence rather than a single moment. The arrival, the welcome, the first reading of the room, the menu, the drink and the departure all contribute to an impression that extends beyond what is in the glass. Experience is the form created by those elements together. It is broader than […]

August 18, 2026 By Serge Guillou

Boban Lazarević - IBA Champion Bartender

Partnership

In partnership with International Bartenders Association

Boban Lazarević: Built in a Training Room, Proven on a World Stage in 20224

Before Boban Lazarević won the title, before the stage lights, there was repetition. In Belgrade, bartending doesn’t always begin behind a busy counter. For many, it begins in a classroom. Inside Bar Central Belgrade, run by the Bartenders Association of Serbia, drinks are broken down long before they are served. Recipes are practised until they […]

August 17, 2026 By Serge Guillou

Partnership

Calvados: The Apple Brandy of Normandy Defined by Appellation Law

Normandy’s orchards gave Calvados its meaning before law gave it protection. In this part of northern France, apples and pears were not minor crops. They shaped farm landscapes, hedgerows, local drinks, rural economies, and the way agricultural value moved from fruit to cider, then from cider to spirit. Calvados belongs to that orchard world. Its […]

August 16, 2026 By Alexandre Vingtier

Jigger and Pony -The Craft of Hospitality

Partnership

In partnership with International Bartenders Association

Jigger and Pony: The Craft of Hospitality Behind Asia’s Most Consistent Cocktail Bar

Energy carries the room at Jigger and Pony. Not noise, not spectacle, but a steady, deliberate rhythm shaped by people who understand that a bar lives or dies by how it makes guests feel. Set within Amara Singapore in Singapore, the bar has built its reputation not on a single defining drink or concept, but […]

August 15, 2026 By Serge Guillou

Trending

Cocktails in 2026: The 10 Drinks Every Enthusiast Should Know

Cocktails in 2026 are not defined by one dominant style. Classic drinks remain firmly established, but the way they are being served and interpreted continues to change. Bartenders are working with lighter formats, aperitivo traditions, regional ingredients, savoury flavours, nostalgic recipes and more deliberate presentations, while drinkers are becoming increasingly interested in quality rather than […]

August 14, 2026

Espresso Martini The Late-Night Cocktail

Partnership

In partnership with International Bartenders Association

Espresso Martini: The Late-Night Cocktail That Reshaped Balance and Energy

Despite its name, the Espresso Martini does not belong to the Martini family. It contains no vermouth and shares none of the structural logic associated with classic stirred cocktails. Its identity is instead rooted in the late 20th-century shift toward ingredient-driven mixing, where fresh components and immediate preparation replaced pre-batched simplicity. The drink initially appeared […]

August 13, 2026 By Serge Guillou

Discovery and Education

Tradition Meets Innovation: J. Blake Layfield and Maker’s Mark’s New Generation

When J. Blake Layfield, Ph.D. became the ninth Master Distiller at Maker’s Mark in 2024, he inherited one of Kentucky bourbon’s most recognisable production philosophies. The responsibility was larger than maintaining a familiar recipe. Maker’s Mark had spent more than seven decades building an identity around a particular approach to bourbon, from its use of […]

August 12, 2026

Nathan Nearest Green - The Father of American Whiskey

Distilleries & Producers

Nathan Nearest Green: The Forgotten Father of American Whiskey

Long before Tennessee whiskey became an internationally recognised category, the hills around Lynchburg, Tennessee, were home to a network of farms, mills and small distilling operations where whiskey-making knowledge was passed from one generation to another. Among the distillers working in this community was Nathan “Nearest” Green, an African American whiskey maker whose name would […]

August 11, 2026

Linards Grundmanis --Consistency Becomes Character

Partnership

In partnership with International Bartenders Association

Linards Grundmanis: Where Consistency Becomes Character

There’s a certain kind of bar where nothing feels dramatic. The lighting is steady, the service is measured, and the drinks arrive exactly as expected. Linards Grundmanis learned the craft in Riga; many hotel bars operate this way, not as stages for creativity, but as systems built on reliability. Before competitions, before recognition, his work […]

August 10, 2026 By Serge Guillou