Bar Assistant

Manage your cocktail recipes, track ingredient inventory, and calculate costs. Create custom menus, plan event quantities, and discover new drinks easily.

Manage your home or professional bar with a comprehensive platform designed for cocktail enthusiasts. Build a detailed archive of your favorite drinks, complete with personal notes, ratings, and custom images.

Key features include:

Inventory Management: Track ingredient stock, manage categories, and automatically calculate cocktail prices.
Smart Planning: Use the quantity planner for events, generate shopping lists, and see what cocktails you can make with your current stock.
Custom Menus: Design and publish cocktail menus to a public URL with automatic pour cost calculations.
Data Flexibility: Import recipes from websites, bulk import ingredients, and export data in JSON, YAML, or Markdown.
Advanced Tools: Create calculators for syrups, manage multiple bar instances, and access a powerful API.

Whether using the hosted version or self-hosting the open-source platform, you retain complete control over your bar data.

Directory Structure

bar-assistant

meilisearch_data

postgres_data

redis_data

storage

.env

docker-compose.yml

services:
  bar-assistant:
    image: barassistant/server:latest
    container_name: bar-assistant
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - "3000:3000"
    environment:
      - APP_URL=${APP_URL}
      - DB_CONNECTION=pgsql
      - DB_HOST=db
      - DB_PORT=5432
      - DB_DATABASE=bar_assistant
      - DB_USERNAME=${DB_USERNAME}
      - DB_PASSWORD=${DB_PASSWORD}
      - MEILISEARCH_HOST=http://meilisearch:7700
      - MEILISEARCH_KEY=${MEILI_MASTER_KEY}
      - REDIS_HOST=redis
      - CACHE_DRIVER=redis
      - SESSION_DRIVER=redis
      - SCOUT_DRIVER=meilisearch
      - SALT=${SALT}
    volumes:
      - ./storage:/var/www/html/storage/app/public
    depends_on:
      - db
      - redis
      - meilisearch

  meilisearch:
    image: getmeilisearch/meilisearch:v1.11
    container_name: bar-assistant-meilisearch
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      - MEILI_MASTER_KEY=${MEILI_MASTER_KEY}
      - MEILI_ENV=production
    volumes:
      - ./meilisearch_data:/meili_data

  redis:
    image: redis:alpine
    container_name: bar-assistant-redis
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - ./redis_data:/data

  db:
    image: postgres:16-alpine
    container_name: bar-assistant-db
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      - POSTGRES_DB=bar_assistant
      - POSTGRES_USER=${DB_USERNAME}
      - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=${DB_PASSWORD}
    volumes:
      - ./postgres_data:/var/lib/postgresql/data

.env

APP_URL=http://localhost:3000
DB_USERNAME=bar-assistant
DB_PASSWORD=your_secure_database_password
MEILI_MASTER_KEY=your_secure_meilisearch_key
SALT=your_random_salt_string

Categories:

Recipe Management