From the classroom to your pocket
Digital tools, optional AI assistance, and online fundamentals from STSB.
The Top Pour is the digital side of South Texas School of Bartending. It brings together practical bartender tools, optional AI-powered assistance, and self-paced bartending fundamentals.
Use the tools to organize the work. Use Ask STSB when you want help thinking it through. Use the course to build your foundation.
27 years behind the bar. 20 years training bartenders.
The Top Pour was built from both.
Built from the work
The lesson doesn't end when class does.
Built for bartenders who want their recipes, inventory, gigs, planning, and bar knowledge in one place.
The Top Pour gives you practical tools you can use before, during, and between shifts. Check what you have, work through a drink build, plan a private event, or keep the next gig from sneaking up on you.
The Tools demo: No account. No credit card. No bullshit.
I started bartending in 1999 and opened South Texas School of Bartending in Weslaco in 2006. The Top Pour bartending app grew out of the same practical approach I use behind the bar and in the classroom.
Recipes tell you what. The Top Pour teaches you why.
— Ruben Villanueva
Every tool has a purpose — from knowing what’s on your shelf to planning the next event, building a drink, or keeping your gigs organized.
Know what you have before you start guessing.
Keep track of the bottles, mixers, beer, wine, and garnishes you actually have on hand. My Bar also helps Recipes and What Can I Make? show you what you can build with your current setup. Keep quantities and low-stock levels in view.
More than a drink list.
Search cocktails, save favorites, and open each recipe for measurements, glassware, method, garnish, steps, and the reasoning behind the build. Bartender’s Why and STSB mentor notes explain the thinking.
You’re not just seeing what goes in the drink — you’re learning why it works.
Start with what’s already behind your bar.
Use your My Bar inventory to find drinks you can make now and see what you’re missing when you’re close.
It’s a practical way to use what you already have before reaching for another bottle.
Build it once. Save it right.
Create your own cocktails with measurements, method, glassware, steps, and notes.
Save the version that worked so you can make it the same way again instead of trying to remember what you did last time. You can edit and rate your saved builds as you work on them.
Plan the bar before the guests show up.
Enter the guest count, event length, drinking pace, and what you plan to serve.
The planner helps estimate bottles, mixers, ice, garnishes, cups, and other supplies so you have a starting point for your shopping list.
These are planning estimates, not exact consumption promises. You can save the event and optionally add a linked gig to Calendar & Gigs.
Keep the work from sneaking up on you.
Track shifts, weddings, private events, classes, reminders, client details, locations, and notes in one place.
When something changes, update the gig and keep the details with the job.
A bartender reference you can actually use.
Look up practical information on spirits, beer, wine, glassware, techniques, and bar skills.
It’s there when you need a quick answer or want to understand the reason behind a recipe or method. You can also open related library lessons from a recipe.
See what’s coming next.
Your Home screen brings your next three gigs into view, including today’s work, so you can quickly check what’s ahead and jump straight into the details. They’re shown in date and time order.
One-time ownership
Includes Bartender Tools and 100 starter AI credits for Ask STSB.
You’ve spent twenty bucks on worse shit.
Core is a one-time purchase. It does not become an annual subscription. AI+ is optional and sold separately.
My Bar, Recipes, What Can I Make?, My Creations, Event Bar Planner, Calendar & Gigs, and Bar Library keep working.
AI credits are only for Ask STSB.
If you only need Ask STSB occasionally, one-time credit packs are available without an AI+ subscription.
The Tools demo: No account. No credit card. No bullshit.
Optional upgrade to Bartender Tools
FOR WHEN CORE ISN’T ENOUGH.
AI+ is for bartenders and bar operators who use Ask STSB more often or want the deeper inventory tools.
Core gives you the everyday tools. AI+ adds more AI usage and Professional Inventory for people doing more serious bar tracking.
Ask STSB already works in Core with starter credits. AI+ is optional, and Core remains a one-time purchase.
Ask STSB is a bartender-focused AI assistant built around practical bar questions.
Ask about a drink build, a substitution, a technique, something that isn’t coming out right, or a situation you’re working through behind the bar.
Ask a question by itself, or give Ask STSB something from your account to work with — a recipe, what’s in My Bar, one of your creations, or an event you’re planning.
The more useful context you give it, the better the answer can be.
With AI+, you can give Ask STSB your inventory details to review shortages, pars, entered costs, restock needs, or an active count.
AI can be useful behind the bar, but it can still be wrong. Use it like a second set of eyes — not a replacement for judgment.
Know what you have, what you’re short on, and what it’s costing you.
Professional Inventory takes My Bar a step further.
Set pars, costs, reorder points, vendors, and storage locations. Add bottle or pack size and notes, too. Reorder points give you a warning; pars set the restock target.
Run physical counts, compare what should be there with what’s actually there, and build a cleaner restock list before you spend money. Use Count Sessions to confirm the count before updating My Bar.
When you finish a count, your inventory updates and your last completed count stays available for review in Last Count.
Copy the restock list or give Ask STSB your inventory details for a second look.
AI+ Annual Founding
Regular annual price: $99/year.
Includes 500 AI credits each month and Professional Inventory: pars, costs, Count Sessions, restock planning, Last Count, and Ask STSB inventory context.
AI+ is an upgrade to Lifetime Core.
If you don’t own Core yet, you’ll need Lifetime Core ($19.99 one-time) plus the annual AI+ subscription.
Existing Core owners only need the annual AI+ upgrade.
Monthly AI+ credits reset each month. Purchased credit packs stay separate.
Bartenders and bar operators who expect to use Ask STSB regularly or want the expanded inventory tools.
If you mainly want recipes, My Bar, creations, event planning, and a calendar, Core already does that. If you are setting pars, entering costs, counting the bar, or asking more questions, AI+ gives those jobs more room.
Bartending Fundamentals is a separate course purchase. AI+ is not required to take the course.
Learn the fundamentals at your own pace.
You can learn a lot about bartending before you ever step behind a real bar. This course gives you the foundation — bar terminology, drink-building methods, guest service, practice drills, and the kind of judgment bartenders use every shift.
You’ll work through 11 modules and 85 lessons at your own pace, with Practice Labs, Module Checks, real-world scenarios, and a Final Challenge.
Take time with a concept, practice it, and revisit lessons when you need another look. Instead of trying to learn bartending from random clips and recipes all over the internet, this gives you a real order to work through it.
Teach it → Show it → Practice it → Assess it. Build the foundation, work through drinks, then put technique and judgment into service situations.
Start with the bar itself, how to handle bottles, how to measure, and how to calibrate before speed becomes the goal.
Build your first drinks, understand what you’re pouring, learn drink families, and work through shaking, stirring, straining, blending, and finishing.
Work through rushes, guest service, judgment calls, and full-shift thinking before the Final Challenge.
$19.99 one-time
A little bartender-school truth: Finishing an online course does not make you a bartender. It gives you a better foundation than walking in cold. The real skill comes from practice, hands-on training, and experience behind the bar.
Prefer hands-on instruction? View our in-person bartending program
The tools and the course
$29.99 one-time · Save $10
Get Lifetime Core and STSB Bartending Fundamentals together for $29.99 one-time — Save $10.
Both products open from one Top Pour account.
Includes Bartender Tools Lifetime Core, 100 starter AI credits, and STSB Bartending Fundamentals.
AI+ is not included and remains optional. It is a separate annual subscription.
Start with what you actually need it to do. You don’t need every option.
For someone who already works, practices, or mixes drinks and wants practical tools to stay organized.
$19.99 one-time. Includes 100 starter AI credits.
Visit The Top Pour →For someone using Ask STSB regularly or doing more serious inventory work.
$69.99/year founding. $99/year regular. Lifetime Core is required.
Explore AI+ →For someone who wants structured, self-paced foundational learning.
$19.99 one-time. Practice and hands-on experience still matter.
Explore Bartending Fundamentals →For someone who wants both the working tools and the course.
$29.99 one-time. Save $10. AI+ remains separate.
Explore Tools + Fundamentals →Want to look before you decide? Test drive Bartender Tools or preview the course.
Getting your setup together? See STSB Recommended Bar Tools. Want hands-on practice? Explore our bartending program.
