Cordial Craft Batch Planning

A measured plan for the full service

Scale the recipe. Protect the drink.

Start with a Cordial Craft ratio, choose a recipe, or enter your own measured drink. The planner separates what goes in the batch from what you add when serving, and shows totals in U.S. fluid ounces and milliliters.

Calculations stay in this browser. Nothing is saved, sent, or attached to an order.

Test first. Scale second.

Make one drink before making a batch.

Actual dilution varies with ice, temperature, equipment, time, and technique. Make one serving the way you plan to serve it, measure the result, then chill and taste a small batch before making the full amount.

Plan a menu-ready cocktail

Manual starting points

If the interactive planner is unavailable, multiply one measured serving at a time: either 2 U.S. fl oz spirit + 1 U.S. fl oz Cordial Craft, or the highball base of 2 U.S. fl oz spirit + 0.75 U.S. fl oz Cordial Craft.

Do not guess the water amount. Test one serving using your chosen method, record the result, and multiply each measured liquid by the same number of servings. Keep carbonation separate until service unless you have a tested, pressure-rated procedure for that recipe.

Plan a menu-ready cocktail or review Cordial Craft ratios and methods.

Choose the recipe source

Use a house starting point, a Cordial Craft recipe, or your own measured drink.

Recipe or starting point

Choose how many drinks to make

Overage is optional and applies only to measured liquids, not garnishes or manual steps.

Target servings

Whole numbers from 1 to 1,000.

Optional measured-liquid buffer (%)

Use 0% for none. This is not a recommended waste target.

Name the dilution convention

Select exactly what your number means. The planner never inserts a default water percentage.

No advance waterDilute through the tested shake, stir, or ice method at service. Tested water amount per servingEnter the measured water gained when you tested one drink. Added water ÷ undiluted batchWater equals the entered percentage of pre-batch liquid. Water ÷ finished pre-service batchWater is the entered share of base plus advance water.

Before calculating

Keep carbonated ingredients at service unless a recipe-specific, pressure-rated process has been validated. Follow applicable food-safety, labeling, holding, allergen, and alcohol-service procedures.

Measured batch plan

Pre-service batch Ingredients combined in advance, including selected advance water

Per-serving batch pour Buffer excluded from the portion size

Measured additions at service Planned separately from the pre-service batch

Complete measured liquid Pre-service batch plus measured service additions

Combine in the pre-service batch

Batch service notes

Taste, label, and brief your team

Complete these fields on the printed plan. Use the calculated amounts alongside your venue’s preparation and storage instructions.

Recipe version
Checked by / date
Container and measured fill
Prepared by / time
Label and storage instructions
First / middle / last pour check

The reliable workflow

Good batches start with a good drink.

Get one drink right

Use the intended recipe, ice, temperature, equipment, timing, glass, and finish. Repeat if the result varies.

Measure a small test batch

Record how you calculated the water, keep serving additions separate, and taste a chilled portion before making the full batch.

Share the serving instructions

Write down the container, fill, label, storage, serving size, and finishing steps your team needs. Follow your venue’s preparation and service procedures.

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