There’s got to be a better way.

If you’ve landed on this page, I’d be willing to bet you and I have a similar experience with home bartending. Here’s mine.

My early experience with alcohol was…rough. I was mixing rum and Coke (at most) or vodka and Sprite, pretty much choking down alcohol and believing that’s just how ‘drinking’ worked. But on one chance day, my wife and I stumbled upon a speakeasy and had craft cocktails that completely changed our perspective on what great drinks really are. For us, a new world opened up.

I started soaking up as much as I could about this new world; buying books, visiting forums/Reddit and going to various sites to find recipes. I was just trying to cobble together a proper learning experience for being a home bartender. At that time, there was only one online course that wasn’t a pro bartender course, so options on that front were limited. I wandered rather aimlessly through this new world. Not to mention it being a rather lonely experience as I felt pretty inadequate as a beginner with all the community spaces being dominated by the pro bartenders. Where was the space for new home bartenders?

There had to be a better way. I wanted to create an online community of beginner home bartenders, and I wanted to make the process of learning how to make new cocktails – including the techniques, styles and base spirit knowledge – easy to follow and progress to the next step.

So that’s what I set out to create: a community of those who want to share and learn about making incredible cocktails at home. It’s the site you’re on, it’s our YouTube channel and it’s the Discord community we have built and are continuing to grow. If any of my story resonated with you, then please join us. We’d love to learn from you and hopefully we can teach you a thing or two as well. But mostly, we want to have some laid-back fun as we delve into the world of cocktail-making – together.

Cheers,

Kevin (& Devon)

Founders, Homebar.io