Recommendations from what you actually pour
Three lists in the catalogue that take their cue from the spirits you log and rate, and a pick from the bottles you already own.
Get your recommendationsWhere to find them
Open the Browse menu in the catalogue and choose For You, Similar Users or Explore. They are for members who are signed in; signed out, the catalogue asks you to sign in first.
For You: your own history, matched
For You scores spirits you have not logged against the ones you have, and uses only the ones you rated four or five stars. If nothing is rated that high yet, everything you logged counts. It looks at a defined set of things, not your whole account.
- The types of spirit you have logged
- The regions and countries they come from, where the catalogue records them
- The flavour notes in the catalogue, and the tasting notes you pick on spirits you rated four or five stars
- How strong they are, so a pick close to your usual ABV or proof scores higher
Similar Users and Explore
Similar Users looks for members who also rated highly a spirit you rated highly, and shows you the other spirits they rated highly that you have not logged. It shows you spirits, not people: nothing in the list says which member rated what.
Explore does the opposite of the other two on purpose. It shows the spirits members log most in types you have not tried yet, because a profile built only from what you already like narrows until nothing new gets in.
On day one, and as you log
Each list starts working at a different point. For You needs your first logged pour. Similar Users needs at least one spirit you rated four or five stars and another member who rated it that high too. Explore works from the start, because until you have logged something every type is one you have not tried. Until a list has something to say, the catalogue shows a prompt saying what it needs rather than a made-up pick.
For You and Similar Users sharpen as you log and rate, and Explore moves on as you try new types. We would rather say that than promise pinpoint picks on your first night.
What it leaves out
Spirits you have already logged are taken out of every list, whichever way you rated them. So are custom spirits: a one-off somebody added for their own bar is not something you could pour, so it is never suggested to you.
Pick for me, from your own Bar
Pick for me is separate from the catalogue lists: it chooses from the bottles you already own, and only from them. It never hands you a cocktail recipe. Quick pick chooses from what is in your Bar right now, favouring fuller bottles, with some chance mixed in. Reroll leaves out the ones you have seen, the arrows step through its picks, and when you have seen them all it says it is starting over.
By pairing looks at the cigars you keep in Cigar Vault on the same account. It leads with the bottles in your Bar that members have paired with one of them, and says which cigar and why. If you have no cigars on hand, or members have not paired any of your bottles with them yet, it picks on flavour instead and tells you so.
Common questions
- How does Liquor Vault decide what to recommend?
- For You looks for spirits whose type, flavour notes and strength match what you have logged, and region and country where the catalogue records them, leaning on the ones you rated highly. Similar Users shows what members who loved the same spirits also rated highly. Explore shows spirits members log most in types you have not tried yet. The more you log and rate, the better the picks.
- Does it use AI?
- No. It is matching on what you logged and rated, and a comparison against other members' ratings, not a machine learning model.
- I have not logged anything yet. What will I see?
- Explore works from the start. For You needs your first logged pour, and Similar Users needs a spirit you rated four or five stars and another member who rated it that high. Until then each list shows a prompt saying what it needs, not a made-up pick.
- Will it keep suggesting the same kind of spirit?
- Only if you stay in For You, which follows what you already like. Explore is the deliberate counterweight, because it picks types you have not logged, and Similar Users draws on other members' ratings rather than your own.
- Are spirits I have already logged recommended back to me?
- No. Anything already in your journal is left out of all three lists, and so are custom spirits nobody else could pour.