Logging pours

A pour is a log entry: I drank this, here, and this is what I thought. Over time your pours become two things at once — a drinking journal you'll actually look back on, and the richest signal your palate gets.

Logging a drink

Log a pour from any drink's page, or from the + menu on any tab. Rate it, add a note, attach a photo if the drink earned one. Then say where:

A bar or restaurant — search finds venues even if they've never been mentioned on Riffed before.
At home — a first-class option, not a fallback. Home pours never share a location: friends just see "your place" (or the name you've given your home bar in Settings, if you've named it).

If you're at (or getting ready for) a party you're on, the form offers the event as a one-tap tag, and the pour joins that party's record.

The Log a pour form: drink search, an At home option beside venue search, star rating, notes, and an optional photo. — Logging takes ten seconds — and the pour gets its own page, where friends react and comment.

A pour page: the drink with its rating and artwork, a venue minimap, the note, and a comment thread below. — Logging takes ten seconds — and the pour gets its own page, where friends react and comment.

As poured

Bartenders deviate, and so do you. Expand "As poured" on the form to record how the drink was actually made when it differed from the recipe — a longer pour, a swap, something left out. It only saves when something genuinely diverged, and it shows on the pour as a compact "as poured" note.

The payoff comes later: a pour you loved can become its own drink with one tap — "Make this a riff" carries the as-poured build straight into the editor.

Friends and your journal

The Activity tab splits in two. Friends is their news: friends' pours — the drink, the venue, the rating, the note — plus any drinks they've published, with reactions and comments one tap away. You is your journal: your own pour history, a running count of drinks and families you've explored, and milestone cards for the firsts worth remembering — your first tiki pour, your first smoky one, the first time someone saved a drink you made.

A pour is a log, not a save

Deliberately. Logging a drink at a bar doesn't bookmark it into your collection — those are different intents. The confirmation offers to save it too, so when the intents do coincide it's one tap.

It teaches your palate

Every pour is a palate signal, weighted by your rating. Logged something you ordered for a friend? Exclude that one pour from your palate — the night stays in your journal, but stops speaking for your taste. The details are in the palate guide.