AlembicDistillery WordPress Theme
Add a drop of water and watch the spirit open — a live WebGPU glass, a shelf of drawn bottles, a flavour finder and tour requests for craft distilleries.
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Highlights
- Live WebGPU glass: water sinks and curls through the spirit
- Spirit pages with a water calculator, tasting notes and matching cocktails
- Cocktail recipes with a servings scaler and drawn glasses
- Our story timeline, journal with contents and tour requests
Overview
Who it is for
Craft distilleries, whisky and gin brands, rum houses and tasting rooms — businesses whose product is a liquid people want to see, smell and visit. Alembic shows the range bottle by bottle, explains how it is made, helps a visitor choose, and turns interest into a tour request.
A glass you can play with, in WebGPU
The hero is a live simulation of viscimetry — the curling threads that appear when water meets spirit. Compute shaders solve the flow every frame (vorticity confinement, buoyancy, Jacobi pressure projection, advection), and a render pass bends a warm back-light through the water threads while tinting the liquid with Beer–Lambert absorption taken from each spirit’s colour. Move across the glass to add water, press "Add a drop", or switch the spirit in the glass. Each spirit’s own page renders the glass in that spirit’s colour. Without WebGPU, a painted still glass stands in; motion pauses off-screen and respects reduced-motion settings.
The shelf and the flavour finder
Spirits are native records with ABV, age, cask, still, bottling, nose, palate, finish, perfect serve and a six-axis flavour profile. Every bottle is drawn in SVG from its liquid colour, so a new spirit looks finished without photography, and morphs into its page through a cross-document view transition. The shelf filters by type with pure CSS. Six sliders match a visitor’s palate to the closest bottle on a live radar chart.
Visits and tour requests
Tours carry price, duration, capacity, start times and inclusions. The request form adapts its times and guest limit to the chosen tour, shows a live estimate, validates on the server and stores private records with a reference. It does not send email or take payment. An age notice, configurable legal age and responsible-drinking line are built in, with a one-click, repeatable demo import.
Inner pages that do real work
Every spirit page carries a water calculator — pour size and target strength in, millilitres and drops out. Cocktails are recipes tied to a spirit, with drawn glasses and a servings scaler, and link back to the bottle. The Our story template draws a scroll-driven timeline with values, team badges and estate commitments, and the journal has a lead article, topic chips, a sticky contents list and related reading.
What's included
- Classic PHP theme source — no build step, no third-party JavaScript
- Spirits, cocktails, tours and tour-request post types
- Five spirits, six cocktails, three tours, story and visit pages, four journal articles
- Customizer: distillery details, hero copy, liquid colour, palette, age notice
- Painted fallback, reduced-motion still frame and pause control
- Self-hosted OFL fonts and a repeatable demo importer
Specifications
| WordPress | 6.5+ |
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| PHP | 8.0+ |
| Browsers | Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge (latest) |
| Layout | Fully responsive, mobile → desktop |
| Localization | English interface; translation-ready |
| Accessibility | Keyboard-navigable · prefers-reduced-motion |
| Page builder | Not required — native Customizer |
| License | GNU GPL v2 · single-site commercial |
Release
Version 1.1.0 adds cocktails with a servings scaler, a water-dilution calculator on spirit pages, an Our story timeline template, a journal with lead article, contents and related reading, and breadcrumbs across inner pages.
