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Logging Drinks

There are two layers to tracking drinks in Terra: adding a drink to your collection (the entry), and logging a tasting (a record of a specific time you had it). This page covers both.

Adding a drink to your collection​

Tap the + button from the Drinks page.

Core fields:

  • Name — required
  • Type — Beer, Wine, Cocktail, Spirit, Coffee, Tea, or Other
  • Producer — winery, brewery, distillery, or cafe
  • Year — vintage year for wines, release year for spirits
  • ABV — alcohol by volume (percentage)
  • Rating — 1–10; your overall assessment of this drink
  • Notes — your tasting notes, impressions, or anything you want to remember
  • Status — one of three (see below)
  • Favorite — toggle to mark as a top pick
  • Photo — upload a file or paste a URL

Tasting characteristics (populated automatically based on type, editable):

  • Body / feel — e.g., "Carbonated & Refreshing" for beer, "Full-bodied & Tannic" for red wine
  • Serving temperature — suggested range
  • Pairings — food pairing suggestions

Status options​

Want to Try — drinks on your radar that you haven't had yet. Add them here when you hear about something interesting so you don't forget. Change to Tasted when you drink it.

Tasted — drinks you've had and logged. Most of your collection will live here.

Stocked — bottles or cans you currently have at home. Useful for tracking what's in your cellar, fridge, or cabinet.

Logging a tasting​

A tasting log captures a specific time you had a drink. Each drink can have many tastings over time.

From any drink's detail page, tap Log Tasting or use the Quick Log option.

Tasting log fields:

  • Date — when you had it (defaults to today)
  • Location — where you were: home, a restaurant, a bar, a winery, etc.
  • Notes — how this specific pour tasted; how it compared to previous tastings
  • Rating — 1–10 for this particular tasting (separate from the drink's overall rating)

Quick Log is a minimal version of the form — just the essentials. Use it when you want to record that you had something without taking the time to write detailed notes.

Per-tasting vs. overall rating​

The drink has an overall rating you set when adding it or editing the entry. Each tasting can have its own rating too. They're independent — your overall view of a whiskey stays at 9/10 even if a specific pour from a warm bottle was 7/10 that evening.

Editing and deleting​

Open any drink and use the edit button to update any field. To delete a drink, use the remove option — this deletes the entry and all its tasting logs. To delete a single tasting log, use the delete option on the individual log record.

Tips​

  • Add drinks to Want to Try when you first hear about them, not after. The value of a wishlist drops to zero if you only add things you've already had.
  • Even a short note makes a tasting log worth keeping. "Better than expected," "slightly too warm," or "pairs perfectly with the cheese board" is enough.
  • Use Stocked for cellar management. Change status from Stocked to Tasted once you open a bottle so your stocked list stays accurate.