Brimm.
The Brimm cocktail bar

4,000+ cocktails. Vintage and modern.

The cocktail half of Brimm — a corpus of vintage and modern drinks larger than any other consumer app. Half of them are pre-prohibition recipes (1860 to 1920) you can't find anywhere else.

Two modes, one bar

Brimm's cocktail tab has two distinct experiences depending on what you want to drink:

Bootlegger

The classics, presented straight. Each recipe shown verbatim from its original 19th-century manuscript on dark-parchment cards. No rewrite. No modernization. No editor pass. The voice of Jerry Thomas, William Boothby, and Hugo Ensslin as they wrote it.

Mixologist

The modern craft scene with real measurements (oz), glassware specs, garnish notes, and partner-bar credits via "pan it." Built for the way bartenders actually communicate today.

The corpus

Brimm's vintage cocktail catalog is transcribed from five primary manuscripts that defined the pre-prohibition era. These books are public domain and freely scanned by archives, but the recipes are written in archaic measurements (gills, wineglasses, "a smart dash") in dense Victorian typography. Brimm does the conversion to modern units while preserving the original prose.

Jerry Thomas, 1862The foundational manual. ~235 drinks. The book that codified "cocktail" as a category.
Harry Johnson, 1882The rival manual. More elaborate, decorative, often sweeter than Thomas.
Leo Engel, 1878The London perspective. Quieter parallel work to the New York scene.
William Boothby, 1908San Francisco's bar guide. 500+ drinks. The forgotten daisies, fixes, and rickeys.
Hugo Ensslin, 1917The last great pre-prohibition manual. Includes the original Aviation, with crème de violette intact.

What you can do that you can't elsewhere

Make drinks no current bar serves. The post-prohibition canon compressed to about 30 drinks. The pre-1920 corpus has thousands. Brimm is the only consumer app that opens the full catalog.

Read the originals as written. Bootlegger mode preserves the voice — the Victorian prose, the measurements as they were specified, the garnish instructions in their original wording. It feels like reading a barback's working notebook from 1888.

Pantry-match cocktails the same way as food. Photograph your home bar. Brimm tells you which 30 drinks you can mix from what's actually on the shelf. The wedge that works for food works for the bar.

Browse by era, by spirit base, by drink family. Cobblers, smashes, fixes, juleps, daisies, flips. The taxonomies the original bartenders used.

For curious drinkers, not just professionals

The Brimm cocktail bar isn't aimed only at pro bartenders. The interface assumes you want to drink something good tonight, not pass an exam. Bootlegger mode lets a curious home drinker actually read the source manuals; Mixologist mode gives you the ratio specs you need to mix a sane drink without translating units in your head.

Same wedge as the food half: start from what you have, surface what's worth making.

Brimm cocktails — Android first, May 10, 2026

The cocktail bar ships with the public Android launch. iOS follows late summer.

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