Vartender: Whiskey Concierge

I am just beginning to use the app and like it very much. I have not explored all features but I have had success in entering my inventory. There are a few bottles not scanning or scanning and not allowing entry into my inventory. I also have not figured out the manual add function. So far so good.

I’m have manually submitted alot of bottles (more then a dozen), that are not in the inventory. I have waited almost a year for approval, to no avail. I have also bar scanned bottles that have popped up, but does not allow it to be added to my inventory. Only works good for existing bottles.

Nice app with good information - when you can upload the info. Out of the first 45 whiskeys I tried to add, 17 were not recognized or were being evaluated by developers.

Can’t even register in order to use the app. Registration sends you in a loop saying “something went wrong”.

This app is a really cool concept but it's just not ready. There are far too many bottles that are just not in its inventory. I have about 80 bottles, and most of them are pretty common, and it only found about 45 of them.

The app interface is cool, it’s user friendly and has lots of potential. The problem is it has a very limited amount of inventory that you can add… if you stick to *only* major companies and normal sizes you may be fine. But if you get special variations, try to add from medium to small companies you will be screwed. Very hit and miss! Out of about 50+ bottles my wife and I have, I was only able to add 10. The critical flaw is they choose is to ensure that only they can validate new entries, and obviously they can’t keep up so the app is of limited use and as such has very limited adoption. Look at apps like Discogs where anyone can enter but others can update/correct, etc. Let folks add what they want and just a button to say ‘this is wrong, please review’ for corrections. Unless changed the app will never be widely used. … the fact there hasn’t been an update in over a year isn’t a great sign either. Too bad, lots of potential here.

I gave this a 5 star because this is exactly what I was looking for and eliminates the need for a spreadsheet or trying to remember all that I have in my stock. One know is that my list disappeared and could not retrieve for almost a week and thought it was lost forever after all the hard work to scan all my bottles in. By the way about 40 bottles were not findable which was was a bummer and but did log over 200 other bottles. Need some work in fine tuning and would have given it a 4 but because a developer developed an app that filled a need for us bourbon nerds a 5 was given. Give it a try and let’s hope they fine tune and add other bottles to searchable bottles that are out there.

I got this and had good expectations. I downloaded it and started adding my inventory. I added a dozen bottles and thought this is going to be good. The next day when I went to add more to the inventory I get a message saying it can not fetching bottles and the inventory is empty. It also gives that message on the opening page. And no idea how to fix this problem.

This app has so much potential, but the database is so sparse - “waiting to validate” 75% of the labels I scan. And I’m not scanning rate stuff. Devs might try crowdsourcing. Pros: Somewhat useful for price checking. Cons: You can’t add most bottles to your collection due to to limited data so not useful for inventory tracking or personal tasting history.

I love the idea of this for inventory. I couldn’t add bottles to my inventory that are found by barcode but wrong or not verified. Also several bottles scanned incorrectly - for example Bardstown Founders came up as Bardstown Discovery and there isn’t a way to add it separately or “correct” an incorrect scan. It would also be nice to add a “store pick” note after scanning, or to adjust proof as that can very across single barrels.