Responsible drinking

Apéritif is intended for adults of legal drinking age who already choose to drink. It is not an encouragement to start, nor to drink more.

The essentials

Never drink and drive, and never let someone else.
Do not drink if you are pregnant or may be.
Check with a doctor if you take medication. Many interact badly with alcohol.
Serve water alongside, and eat something.
Know your measures. A cocktail made to spec often contains more alcohol than a glass of wine.

One good drink

This app shows one cocktail a day, and that is the whole of it. There is no archive to work through, nothing to collect, no streak to maintain and no reason to make more than one.

If the app ever starts to feel like a prompt rather than a pleasure, delete it. It will not miss you, and nothing is lost.

Every recipe works without alcohol

A sour is a sour because of the balance between sharp, sweet and cold — the spirit is only one part of that. Most of these recipes are worth making with a zero-proof spirit, or with nothing in its place at all. The method matters more than people expect.

If drinking has stopped being a choice

Support exists in most countries and is usually free and confidential. A doctor is a reasonable first conversation, and Alcoholics Anonymous operates in more than 180 countries. The World Health Organization publishes country-level resources at who.int.

Nothing in this app is a substitute for medical advice.