Collections and seasonal shelves

Collections are hand-picked shelves of cocktails on the Home tab, from the classics to tiki to brunch. The first card changes with the calendar: a seasonal shelf most of the year, and a holiday shelf around the holidays.

Browse a collection

Scroll Home to Collections and swipe sideways through the cards. Each card shows how many cocktails it holds. Tap one to open its list, which has the same strength bar, filter menu and search as every other list. Its Default sort keeps the collection’s own order. See Find a cocktail.

The permanent collections are:

• Modern Classics: the canon every home bar should know.
• Sours: citrus-bright and balanced.
• Tiki: rum, fruit and a little theatre.
• Bubbly: sparkling and celebratory.
• Brunch: bubbles and bracers for the late morning.
• After Dinner: rich, sweet nightcaps.
• Three-Ingredient: every drink with three ingredients or fewer.
• Low-ABV: every drink marked Light.

The first six are curated lists. Three-Ingredient and Low-ABV are rules, so a recipe of your own appears there too when it fits.

The seasonal shelf

The first card is tagged In season. Through the year it rotates between four shelves:

Shelf	Northern Hemisphere	Southern Hemisphere
Winter Warmers	December–February	June–August
Spring Fresh	March–May	September–November
Summer Coolers	June–August	December–February
Autumn Spice	September–November	March–May

Sakaba flips the seasons if your device’s region is Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, South Africa, Uruguay or Paraguay. The region is set in your iPhone’s Settings → General → Language & Region.

Holiday shelves

Around a holiday, its shelf takes the In season spot for a few days and then hands it back:

Shelf	When	Who sees it
Christmas	December 18–26	Everyone
New Year's Sparkle	December 27–January 7	Everyone
Lunar New Year	4 days before to 2 days after Lunar New Year	Chinese or Korean app language, or a region of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, Singapore, South Korea or Vietnam
Valentine's	February 7–14	Everyone except Brazil
St. Patrick's	March 11–17	Everyone
Dia dos Namorados	June 6–12	Brazil
Halloween	October 24–31	Everyone

Lunar New Year moves every year; Sakaba works out the date from the lunar calendar. When two shelves overlap, the shorter window wins, so a holiday always beats the season around it.

The shelf changes at midnight where you are, and it doesn’t need an internet connection.

By taste

The By taste pills on Home use each drink’s flavor profile, four scores from 0 to 5:

• Sour, Sweet, Bitter and Boozy list drinks where that score is 3 or more and at least as high as each of the other three.
• Balanced lists drinks whose four scores add up to 4 or more, with none of them at 4 or above.

A drink can appear under more than one taste, for example when its sour and sweet scores tie.

Good to know

• Holiday reminders. If you’ve turned on weekend reminders, the Friday reminder in a holiday’s first week tells you the shelf has landed. Tapping it opens the shelf, even after the holiday is over.
• Plus recipes. Collections include Plus recipes, marked with ✨. Turn on Free recipes only in the filter menu to see only the ones you can open.

Questions? Write to sakabaapp@proton.me.