Your guide to pre-batching cocktails at home

8 dependable drinks to ease you into party season

Welcome to The Glass, an irregular boozeletter awash with drinks to tell your friends about.

This time I’ve prepared a practical post on pre-batching cocktails. I’m giving you the good stuff here, so the real meat is reserved for my paid supporters. This is what they’ll get:

• A look at some General Principles

• Dilution: they why, the when, the how

• 8 pre-batch friendly recipes you can rely on to start your party with a bang 🎉

• How to make your own syrups

• A quick-reference recipe recap

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General principles

Pre-batching cocktails makes hosting a party easier and more fun for everyone. Think about it: do you really want to spend your evening measuring, hunting about for ice, shaking, straining and pouring? Or would you rather just pour out a drink, plop in a garnish, and actually have time to chat to your friends?

All you need to prepare are some scales and a measuring jug, a few clean containers (recently emptied bottles are best) and enough space in the fridge.

Plus the booze, obviously.

That’s a minimum though. There are other things worth knowing that will make your life easier. Here are a few more tips to keep in mind before you actually start mixing anything.

• It’s a good idea to know how much drink your glasses hold. Many recipes assume serving sizes around 90 to 100 ml.

• Check your containers and work out the volume you can store before you mix up your batches.

• Label everything. Masking tape and a marker pen work well.