Container-less custom beverage vending invention

A container-less custom beverage vending system comprising:

• a plurality of reservoirs holding separate ingredients to be used in beverage recipes;
• a mixing manifold interconnected with the plurality of reservoirs;
• a processor to control the mixing manifold to mix any combination of the plurality of separate ingredients;
• a user interface to display a personalized beverage menu which includes a beverage creation menu to a user, the beverage creation menu configured to receive mixing instructions from the user to mix a beverage recipe, wherein the displayed personalized beverage menu enables a user to create and name a customized beverage recipe;
• wherein after confirming a final composition of the customized beverage recipe, the display presents a user with an option to share their custom beverage with specific other users whom they have designated;
• wherein the beverage names and/or recipes are shared with other users through a database which stores the name and/or recipe and is only accessible to the designated other users;
• wherein the container-less custom beverage vending system enables users to select shared custom beverages to be vended by the system by accessing the stored names and/or recipes in the database and displaying the shared custom beverage on the personalized beverage menu so that the user may select the name of a shared custom beverage submitted by another user, and likewise another user may select on their own personalized beverage menu a shared custom beverage submitted by the user.