Spending hours chasing balance by taste? Balance your cocktails in 10 min on the phone.
Cocktail Architect is a physics engine for cocktails. Not a recipe notebook, not a simple calculator. A professional drink development environment that calculates what most bartenders estimate by taste — and shows it in numbers.
For bartenders who want to understand what they're building, not guess.
For menu developers, consultants, and educators.
Subscription includes all updates — new features and engine improvements at no extra cost. Available on all devices.
The problem
You taste the cocktail. Something's off.
Most bartenders guess by taste — not because they aren't skilled, but because the tools didn't exist.
Too sour? Spirit-forward? The balance is broken — but you can't say why.
- ✕You grab a notepad and start calculating.
- ✕Or just add a bit more syrup and hope for the best.
- ✕Ice, prep method and serving temperature get ignored.
- ✕Balance, cost and batching all live in your head.
It calculates what you used to estimate — and shows it in numbers.
- ✓ABV, titratable acidity, Brix and dilution in real time.
- ✓Ice type, prep method and serving temperature factored in.
- ✓A radar chart shows where your drink sits vs reference zones.
- ✓Batching, pour cost and shift prep handled in one place.
What the app does
Eleven tools for building and balancing drinks.
Recipe Lab — real-time calculations of ABV, titratable acidity (TA), Brix, and dilution, factoring in ice type, prep method, and serving temperature. A radar chart shows where your drink sits relative to reference zones for Sour, Negroni, Old Fashioned, Highball, Flip, and Sidecar.
Auto Family Detection — add your ingredients and the app identifies the drink's family structure, comparing it against the classic template automatically.
Version History — every change is saved. Diff view shows exactly what changed between any two versions of a recipe.
Cordials & Super Juice — calculator for cordials, shrubs, Super Juice, and Milk Punch with acid, sugar, and yield calculations.
Batching — scale any recipe to any number of servings with dilution accounted for. Built for prep shifts, events, and banquets.
Pour Cost — enter the bottle price, get cost per serve and a visual breakdown by ingredient.
Shift Calculator — dedicated tab for shift prep: batch volumes, portion counts, service planning.
Ingredient Database — editable library with ABV, acidity, dietary tags (vegan, gluten-free, etc.), and a built-in bar glossary.
Recipe Sharing — share any recipe via link, QR code, WhatsApp, or Telegram.
Works on mobile — fully responsive interface for use behind the bar.
Bilingual — Russian and English, switch in one click.
Early access
How to get Cocktail Architect right now.
Cocktail Architect is currently in early access until June 24th. Right now you can get it only as a free bonus with the purchase of the Guide to the Classics — two weeks of free access included.
Why? Because we want to collect your feedback and experience to make the application better. Right now we're gathering input and finalising AI helper development — and we can't build the best user experience without you. Thank you for your understanding, and see you inside!
The person behind the guide
Written by someone who started at zero — and figured it out the hard way.
"WHAT IS A NEGRONI?! WHAT IS A WHISKEY SOUR?!"
I started behind a bar by accident — filling in for a friend at a vegan café. Then the café closed. Then I found myself interning at a French-Moldovan bistrot with a recipe spec I barely understood, staring at a list of cocktail names I'd never heard of.
- Learned to make cocktails under pressure — during party shifts, overwhelmed
- First time working with spirits, understanding the difference between categories
- Started to actually enjoy what I was doing — despite the chaos
One day you're nervous. Then a guest comes back just for your cocktails.
Casaroz was the most demanding place I'd worked — two bartenders who worked there had built bar's reputation from scratch, and me and my teammate had to keep it. Milk washing, fat washing, custom foams, author's cocktails, my own vermouth. Athens Bar Show. A guest who became my wife.
- Built a loyal following — regulars who came specifically for my cocktails
- Attended Athens Bar Show twice
- Started experimenting, building my own techniques and flavour systems
- Wrote Guide to the Classics, because I wished it had existed when I started
That Bartender Project
Understand what
you're building.
Don't guess.
A physics engine for cocktails. ABV, acidity, dilution, batching and pour cost — in real time.
Free for 2 weeks with every Guide to the Classics.