Infusion Calculator
Build a full recipe from one or several botanicals — get a shopping list, timing, and a spirit-pairing read in seconds.
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Tools for curious practice
The Lab is
open.
Working tools built from studio field practice: eight calculators, a pairing matchmaker, a self-serve brand diagnostic, and two Himalayan Lab Recipe Guides. More arrives as the practice grows.
An open invitation
Make more deliberate
decisions.
The Lab turns our field thinking into useful working material. It starts with eleven focused tools, sold singly or as workflow kits, — calculators for botanical infusion ratios, non-alcoholic balance, dilution and ABV, batch costing, shelf life and storage, acid adjustment, and cocktail menu building, a spirit and botanical pairing matchmaker, a sensory direction diagnostic for brands, and two guides of tested Himalayan recipes — with a deeper member archive to follow.
Or one at a time
Every tool, on its own.
Balance Calculator
Turn the studio's five-lens balance framework into a working ratio for any base — body, sweetness, acidity, bitterness, and aroma, calculated in seconds.
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Batch & Costing
Scale any recipe to a batch and see what it actually costs to pour — with a suggested menu price at your target pour cost. Built for bartenders and menu builders.
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Sensory Direction
A first-pass sensory direction brief in the studio's own vocabulary — a working hypothesis and a way into a deeper brand collaboration.
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Dilution & ABV
Bring a spirit down to pouring strength, hit an exact batch volume, or blend two spirits — with pour-style ice-dilution presets, common spirit ABVs on tap, and clean-bottle batch rounding.
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Shelf Life & Storage
You built the batch — now know how long it keeps, and what would make it keep longer. Straining, chilling, sealing, or fortifying, each quoted with the real figure it would buy you.
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Recipe Guide Vol. 1
Twelve tested Himalayan recipes, alcoholic and non-alcoholic, with full method, ratios, and sourcing notes.
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Recipe Guide Vol. 2
Ten cold-weather, make-ahead recipes — the first guide built around batching and storage, using all four studio calculators.
$18PDF
Acid Adjustment
Acid-adjust a mild juice up to lemon or lime strength, build a precise citric/malic/tartaric acid solution, or scale a batch of Super Juice.
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Pairing Matchmaker
Start from a spirit or from a botanical, ranked either direction. Where a pairing is weak it tells you the third ingredient that bridges it, why that mechanism works, and the obvious wrong move to avoid.
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Cocktail Menu Builder
See a whole drinks list at once — the price ladder, the spirit-family balance, and a Star/Plowhorse/Puzzle/Dog menu-engineering read once you track popularity.
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Fermentation Calculator
Vegetable brine ferments, kombucha, wine, and kefir in one tool — salt and sugar ratios, sulfite dosing, and timing for each, from studio field practice.
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