Bapa’s Glasses is Jon Miller’s cocktail book — 453 recipes and counting, kept since 2012. Some are classics served straight, some are classics improved (Miller Edits), and 162 of them exist nowhere else in the world (Miller Inventions).
“Bapa” is what the grandchildren call him. The glasses are what he fills.
How to read the notation
- 🥃 / 🍸 glasses — Jon’s rating, straight from the source. More glasses, better drink.
- ❤️ ’24, ’25, ’26 — a favorite of that year, formally inducted.
- House Invention — an original Miller creation.
- Miller Edit — a classic, adjusted until it behaved.
- Shim — a low-proof pour for long evenings.
- On the Bench 🤞 — still being tested; drink at your own risk.
- NOT — tried, judged, and banished to the dispatches.
The machinery
Every recipe is automatically read by the house classifier, which sorts each ingredient into its spirit family — so “Rittenhouse” files under rye whiskey and “Punt e Mes” under sweet vermouth without anyone lifting a finger. The front page checks your local weather and suggests something appropriate: warming pours for cold rain, tall refreshing ones for hot afternoons.