For the people making the work
Advanced ways of thinking for bartenders, beverage teams, menu builders, and independent creators.
Beyond the recipe
We are shaping a professional offering around practical sensory language, stronger development process, and better ways to guide a team through flavour decisions. The first programs are still in development, but the working tools are already live and in daily use — most directly, the Batch & Costing Calculator — scale a recipe to a batch and get a suggested menu price at your pour-cost target — and the Cocktail Menu Builder, which takes those per-drink numbers and reads the whole menu at once.
The Batch & Costing Calculator scales any recipe to a batch and returns a true cost per serving plus a suggested price at your pour-cost target, in your own currency. The Cocktail Menu Builder then reads the whole list at once — price ladder, spirit-family balance, and a Star/Plowhorse/Puzzle/Dog classification using the published Kasavana & Smith method rather than a guess.
In The LabBatch prep is where margin quietly disappears. The Shelf Life & Storage Calculator gives an estimated window and a real use-by date for infusions, syrups, shrubs and cordials, using published food-safety thresholds — including the ~25% ABV point at which ethanol reliably inhibits microbial growth, so a high-proof infusion is not treated like a fresh cordial.
In The LabA spec that lives in one bartender's head is not a spec. The Infusion, Dilution & ABV and Acid Adjustment calculators turn "about a handful, until it tastes right" into a ratio anyone on the team can reproduce at any batch size.
In The LabLive sessions built around a real bar, brief, or menu question — sensory vocabulary, development process, and how to guide a team through a flavour decision without defaulting to the loudest opinion in the room. Not yet scheduled; register interest and we will write when dates exist.
By inquiryA practice-based pathway for professionals who want to go deeper than a weekend certificate. Deliberately unhurried — we would rather publish something defensible late than something thin on time.
In developmentIf you are working on something specific — a menu that will not cost out, a batch that keeps separating, a non-alcoholic list that reads as an afterthought — write and describe it. Replies come from the bench, not from a support queue.
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