TL;DR

Weigh your cocktail to calculate how much to dilute with water and only squeeze citrus the same day.

Calculating the right amount of water

In Why We Stir and Why We Shake, we learned that these techinques dilute the drink with right amount of water. When making a batch of cocktails, we need to be more intentional in our dilution.

1. Choose a cocktail you want to batch
2. Grab your kitchen scale
3. Measure the weight of just the ingredients (no ice), write that down
4. Make the drink as you normally would and measure the weight of the drink, write that down
5. Calculate the difference between the two weights, thats the amount of grams of water you need to add

Note that if you are serving the drink in a punch bowl with ice, you will want to account that into your dilution plan as well.

I've find people are more tolarant of a over diluted drink OVER a under diluted drink. So err on that side.

Rules of Thumb?

I'd like to do a few experiments using the method above to see if there is a rul of thumb to % water in shaken and stirred drinks. Assuming shaken will have high dilution than stirred.

This article suggests:

• 17-25% of pre-dilution weight for shaken drinks
• 10-15% of pre-dilution weight for stirred drinks

References

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