Cocktail Calculator
Plan cocktails for any crowd and know exactly what to buy.
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This one is always shaken to order.
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How the batch math works
| Scale by | Every ingredient is multiplied by the number of drinks |
| Water, served over ice | 20% of the batch |
| Water, served over crushed ice | 15% |
| Water, served up | 25% |
| Built drinks, or shaking each drink | No water. The ice does it |
| Saline, citrus drinks | 5 drops per drink. Skipped for stirred drinks |
| Egg white and espresso drinks | Always shaken to order |
| Fruit | 1 oz of juice per lime, about 1½ per lemon, plus any garnish fruit |
| Bottled juice | Buy the same ounces the batch calls for |
| Extra | 5% on top by default, for strainer loss and generous pours |
| Ice | About ½ lb a drink over ice, ¾ for crushed, plus ¼ if you shake each one |
| Freezer | 25% ABV and up keeps pourable, 20 to 25% turns slushy, below that use the fridge |
| Bottles | 25.36 oz per 750 ml, rounded up |
Keeping a batch
| With fresh citrus | Same day is best |
| Spirit-forward, no citrus | Weeks, sealed. Stirred and up can live in the freezer |
| Soda, ginger beer, bubbles | Never in the batch. Top each glass |
| Egg whites | Separate the day of, keep cold, add per drink |
House syrups
| Simple syrup | 1 part sugar to 1 part water, by weight |
| Agave syrup | 1 part agave nectar to 1 part warm water |
| Honey syrup | 100 g honey to 64 g warm water |
| Saline solution | 1 tbsp fine salt to 5 tbsp warm water |
| Blueberry simple syrup | 1 cup water, 1 cup sugar, 1 pint blueberries. Simmer until the berries burst, cool, double strain |
Where these recipes come from
The cocktails blog decides what appears in the dropdown. If a cocktail is missing here, it needs a batch spec adding.
Style targets
Finished drink, after dilution. Sugar in grams per 100 ml.
