A community for people who pour

Publish a pour and it does not just sit in your own history. It becomes a review on that spirit's page, where anyone looking at the same bottle can read it, newest or highest rated first.

A post needs a caption or a photo, and it can carry the spirit it is about and where you were, a cocktail lounge from the community list or a place in your own words. Posts are liked and commented on, and comments can be replied to.

Type # in a post, comment, forum thread or message and a few letters of a name, and a spirit, a cocktail lounge or one of your own entries becomes a link to it. Type @ and a member's name to mention them.

Alongside posts, the feed shows pours members chose to publish, badges earned and new members, with two switches over it for signed-in members: everyone, or only the people you follow.

The forum is built around threads and replies, for a question, a problem or a conversation that is not about one bottle. Threads sit in categories, among them whiskey and bourbon, tequila and agave, rum, and cocktails and mixing. A thread can carry photos, can be tagged with a spirit, and can be a poll when the answer you want is a count rather than an argument.

There is a Lounges tab in the community, and the cocktail lounges on it are put there by members. Add one and it is reviewed before it goes live. Once a lounge is on the map, members can rate it and write a review, and suggest an edit if something is wrong. You can find lounges by a US ZIP code or your location.

A group is a smaller circle with a shared message board of its own, separate from the public forum. It has a name, a description and a picture, and is public or private; private ones are joined with an invite code.

You can follow other members and see their public activity, and anything you would rather say to one person goes in a direct message. If someone is the problem, block them from the ⋮ menu on their profile; the people you have blocked are listed in your settings, where you can unblock them.

Each Vault has its own feed, forum and groups, so what you read here is about liquor. One account and one Vault Passport connect the five.

Every journal entry has its own privacy switch, and the entries you log in the journal start public unless you change the account setting. Switch one to private and it stops being a review: your notes, your photos and your name are not shown to anyone. The star rating is the exception, and deliberately so. It still counts, with nothing identifying attached, toward that spirit's community average.