ETHANOL // DRINK CHEMISTRY HUD

ETHANOL

Drink chemistry, demystified.

Every pour logged as grams of ethanol and milligrams of congeners: the trace compounds behind a drink's color, aroma, and character. Counts, elapsed time, and a pace read against a fixed rule that learns from prior nights. No sliders. No guesses. A brutalist HUD for what is in the glass.

206 FORMULATIONS 41-MOLECULE COMPENDIUM AI MENU SCAN
ETHANOL session screen mid-night at a venue called The Violet Hour: a two-trace scope charting 48 grams of cumulative ethanol against 1.6 grams of cumulative congeners from 10:04 to 12:20, above a count of 3 drinks, 02H 14M elapsed, a [ PACE // STEADY ] chip read against a usual 3, a MODERATE congener class, and a timeline of the night's most recent pours
SESSION // CUMULATIVE SCOPE
THE INSTRUMENT // RUNNING
[ PACE // STEADY ] SYNTHETIC SESSION · DEMO LOOP · NOT A REAL LOG
[ SESSION // DRINKS ]00
[ SESSION // ELAPSED ]00H 00M
[ CH1 // ETHANOL G ]0G
[ CH2 // CONGENERS ]0 MG

System

[ 01 // WHAT IT TRACKS ]
01

Session Scope

Two traces, both running totals: cumulative grams of ethanol logged, cumulative milligrams of congeners. Counts what was poured, nothing else.

02

Pace Read

Steady or heavy. A fixed rule holds from the first pour; personal history joins it once a few sessions are on record.

03

Telemetry

Drinks, sessions, calories, and spend across 7 / 30 / 90 / 365-day windows. Peaks marked, deltas tracked.

04

Flavor Fingerprint

The congener profile of every pour. The chemistry behind the taste, charted.

05

Menu Scan

A photograph of any drink menu, read into a list of names, prices, and categories. Each item opens to its molecules, strength, and congener load. 10 to start, no expiry.

06

The Lab

206 cocktail formulations, custom builds, and favorites. One formulation featured each day.

07

Compendium

41 signature molecules across six families, unlocking pour by pour: gin's terpenes, tequila's methyl anthranilate.

08

The Map

Venues pin to the map, with the night's route drawn between stops. The picker learns the usual spots and suggests the likeliest for the hour.

09

Wrist + Lock Screen

Count and pace mirrored to Apple Watch, widgets, and the Dynamic Island. From the Lock Screen, a widget, or the Action Button, one tap logs a drink.

10

Bar Inventory

What can be made from what is on the shelf. Bottle labels scan straight into stock.

11

Monthly Wrapped

The month compressed to a single telemetry sheet, alongside k-anonymous benchmarks, never an individual.

12

Insights

Pattern, health, and spend signals surfaced from the data. Statistics, not a model. Observed, not nagged.

Surfaces

[ 02 // THE INSTRUMENT ]
TELEMETRY // GRAIN-LEVEL HISTORY

Every session, charted

Drinks, sessions, calories, and spend across rolling windows: 7, 30, 90, 365 days. Peaks flagged, deltas tracked, the drink mix broken out by category.

  • 7 / 30 / 90 / 365-day windows
  • Drinks · sessions · kcal · spend
  • Category mix, by window
Telemetry on a 30-day window: 48 drinks, 12 sessions, 8,485 kcal and $451 spend with each delta marked, above a daily drinks chart carrying a seven-day mean and a flagged peak of 7, and a 60-day taste drift panel metering sweet, sour, bitter, strong and fresh
TELEMETRY // 30-DAY WINDOW
COMPENDIUM // THE CHEMISTRY OF THE GLASS

The molecule behind the drink

Every pour unlocks the compounds inside it: structure, formula, mass, and where it turns up. A field guide to the chemistry, built one drink at a time.

  • 41 molecules across 6 families
  • Structure · formula · mass · sources
  • Unlocks pour by pour
Molecule detail for vanillin: a ball-and-stick structure with its oxygens in red, the formula C8H8O3 at 152.15 grams per mole, a 3D / 2D toggle, and an abstract placing it as bourbon's fingerprint, extracted from charred American oak
COMPENDIUM // VANILLIN
FORMULATIONS // FLAVOR FINGERPRINT

206, built to spec

A catalog of formulations, each broken down to the active congeners that define its taste, with reagents, method, and scaling. All 206 are free.

  • 206 formulations, none gated
  • Active-congener fingerprint
  • Reagents · method · scaling
Manhattan formulation: the vanillin and gentiopicroside structures drawn above the drink name and attributed to the rye and to the vermouth and bitters, a coupe · 31% ABV · ~170 kcal spec line, a favorite toggle, a provenance note placing the build at the Manhattan Club in 1870s New York, an abstract naming the two-compound signature of the stirred-and-brown family, and a batch scale control
FORMULATION // MANHATTAN
THE LAB // THE BENCH

The shelf, indexed

Formulations, compendium, favorites, and the home bar on one bench. A stocked shelf resolves into a list of what can be built from it; a new formulation is featured each day.

  • My bar: built from what is stocked
  • Custom builds + favorites
  • A featured formulation, daily
The LAB tab: a calibrated taste profile metering smoky, sweet, bitter, spiced and fruity off 12 samples, above tiles reading 27 formulations makeable, a 41 of 41 molecule compendium, a bar holding 12 reagents and an empty favorites list, and a control to craft a new formulation
THE LAB // THE BENCH
THE MAP // WHERE THE NIGHT LANDS

The night, on a grid

Venues pin to a dark brutalist map, with the night's route drawn between stops. The picker learns the usual spots (visit counts, typical nights) and suggests the likeliest for the night and hour. Venue is always optional.

  • Usual spots, ranked by history
  • Home · party · venue, or skip
  • The night's route stays on-device
Session venue picker, headed VENUE OPTIONAL: usual spots The Violet Hour and The Cold Filter listed with visit counts and typical nights, home and party tiles, a dark map of the Mission District listing three nearby venues by distance, and a favorites list
THE MAP // VENUE PICKER
THE WRIST // APPLE WATCH

The count, at a glance

Count, pace, and elapsed time mirrored to the wrist, with the signature molecule of the last drink drawn above them. The last round repeats in two taps. No phone required.

  • Count · pace · elapsed, mirrored
  • The last round, repeated in two taps
  • Last drink's molecule, rendered
ETHANOL on Apple Watch mid-session: the skeletal structure of vanillin, the last drink's signature molecule, above a count of 3 drinks, a [ PACE // STEADY ] readout, 2h 0m elapsed, and a bottom row carrying preferences, the running count and an add button
THE WRIST // APPLE WATCH

Posture

[ 03 // WHAT IT REFUSES ]
206
Formulations
41
Molecules Catalogued
365d
Telemetry Windows
0
Verdicts Rendered
THE POSTURE

Counts, not verdicts. The HUD logs what was poured (grams, congeners, minutes) and scores no one, clears no one, and never calls a drive safe. Any amount impairs. The HUD reports. The operator decides.

Access

[ 04 // FREEMIUM ]
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$0 // DOWNLOAD
The full journal
  • Session journal, telemetry, map
  • 206 formulations + 41-molecule compendium
  • Apple Watch, small widget, Live Activity
  • 10 menu scans to start, no expiry
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