I have always been a big fan of mixology, which is the science of mixing and composing drinks in a way that they deliver the best experience to the palate.
In the past, when I have wanted to make new cocktails, I had to pull recipes from websites like Liquor. As my passion for this alternative contemporary form of art increased, I wanted to find a way to contribute a little grain of sand of my own to it.
This is how I came up with the idea behind @CocktailsBot, a Twitter bot that posts a cocktail recipe every 6 hours.
This way, any Twitter user with a passion similar to mine, could wake up to a recipe for a cocktail delivered right in the comfort of their Twitter feed.
I wanted to make the bot present the information in the most comfortable and accessible way, I decided to implement the following features:
- Every recipe would be formed of two or more tweets. The main tweet would display the ingredients, and answer(s) to that tweet would describe the instructions.
- The ingredients of the cocktail would be preceded by a related emoji.
- An image with the final result would be included.