About

Make me a Cocktail was setup and envisioned in late 2010 when after much internet searching and cocktail mixing, Nick Wilkins, the now CEO of Make me a Cocktail, got "royally frustrated" about the online options to find cocktails and share them with the world.

At home in a dark corner Nick had been collecting various spirits and liqueurs and wanted to explore what cocktails he could make. "Why, there must be somewhere where I can put the drink's I have into a database, and it will tell me what I can make" he thought. Unfortunately, he was wrong. After much searching he found only 3-4 websites that offered the service, and none of them seemed to offer the level or simplicity that he was after.

Two weeks later he had wrote a script that could do just what he was after, and he was content as he used the script to make cocktails for friends and family alike.

During the Christmas period of 2010, he decided to turn the script into the basis of a much more comprehensive website that offered a full cocktail experience. Over the next two months, with the help of many cocktail loving associates, people in the cocktail industry, and some amazing thoughts, recommendations, and pure data entry from many close friends, a time of foundation setting and growth was carried out, as the base information and ideas was gathered for the site. Finally in March 2011 Make me a Cocktail was born.

The site grew and prospered over the next 18 months, and as users started to (as their namesake suggests) use the site, create their own bars and update profiles the site boomed. More features were added, a community starting to be born, and it was time for a redesign.

During early 2012 an overhaul of the site started, re-writing the whole backend and having a completely new front end design in place. It took months of coding, tweaking and overtime hours as everyone wanted to create the best possible site we could with todays technology. In July 2012 - Make me a Cocktail 2.0 (what you see currently) was released to the public.

From the early concept of a My Bar feature on his local machine at home, to a community driven site with over 2500 cocktails and counting, most people would be happy at where the site is and leave it to sit and help people make the best cocktails the world over. However, not happy at sitting on their laurels, the Make me a Cocktail team are always pushing the boundaries both technically and practically to try and deliver the most cutting edge, most useful, most stupenduous cocktail resource around.

That ladies and gentlemen - was, is, and hopefully always will be, Make me a Cocktail.