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Cocktail Cost Per Drink Calculator

Enter your bottle price, pour size, and mixer cost.

How it is calculated

First the bottle price is turned into a price per millilitre, then multiplied by the pour: pour cost = (bottle price / bottle ml) × pour ml. The mixer and garnish cost per drink is added: cost per drink = pour cost + mixer cost. The tool also tells you how many drinks one bottle gives, bottle ml / pour ml, to one decimal. Volumes are in millilitres (a 750 ml bottle, a 60 ml pour), and amounts are shown in dollars. Bottle price, bottle size and pour must be above zero; the mixer cost may be left empty (treated as zero) but not negative. Only one spirit is modelled and spillage, ice, labour and tax are not included.

Worked example

A 750 ml bottle costs 28 and each drink uses a 60 ml pour plus 0.75 of mixer and garnish. Price per millilitre: 28 / 750 = 0.03733. Spirit in one drink: 0.03733 × 60 = 2.24, shown as $2.24. Adding the mixer gives 2.24 + 0.75 = 2.99, so the cost per drink is $2.99. One bottle yields 750 / 60 = 12.5 drinks, so you can sell 12 full drinks and have a half-pour left over.

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Common mistakes

  • Entering the pour in ounces while the bottle is in millilitres. One US fluid ounce is about 29.6 ml, so a 2 oz pour must be entered as roughly 59 ml.
  • Entering the bottle size as 0.75 for litres. The field is in millilitres, so a 0.75 litre bottle must be 750, otherwise the cost per drink is 1000 times too high.
  • Ignoring spillage, over-pouring and evaporation. The 12.5 drinks per bottle is the theoretical figure, and real bars often get fewer, so the true cost per drink is higher.
  • Leaving out the second spirit or liqueur in a recipe. Only one spirit is calculated, so for a drink with two alcohols run the tool for each and add the results to the mixer cost.
  • Confusing cost per drink with pour cost percentage. The result is an amount of money; to get the percentage divide it by the selling price of the drink.

About this calculator

Working out the true cost of a cocktail means breaking down the spirit into a per-pour cost — dividing the bottle price by the number of pours it yields based on bottle size and pour amount, both in millilitres — and then adding the cost of mixers, garnishes, and other ingredients. This calculator does that math for you: enter your bottle price, bottle size (ml), standard pour size (ml), and mixer cost, and it returns the cost of a single finished drink, the spirit cost per pour, and how many drinks a bottle yields.

Bar owners, bartenders, and beverage managers use per-drink cost figures like this to set menu prices that hit a target pour cost percentage (typically 18-24% in the industry) — the ratio of ingredient cost to selling price that keeps a bar profitable after covering labor, rent, and overhead. The calculator does not compute that percentage itself: divide the drink cost by your menu price. It's also useful for anyone hosting a party at home who wants to budget how much a batch of cocktails will actually cost per guest.

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  • Editorial team

    The tool models one spirit, but a two-spirit drink is easy to cost: run it once per spirit, enter the mixer and garnish cost in only one of the runs, and add the two cost-per-drink figures. The same approach lets you compare a 1000 ml and a 750 ml bottle by entering each price. Do you fold ice and garnish into the mixer box or keep them separate? Tell us how you handle it.

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