Cocktail Craft

Problem: Cocktail Q&A tends to drift on experience

Cocktail questions look simple but involve exact amounts, technique parameters, glassware, garnish logic, and material sourcing. Answering from memory can produce vague “to taste”, wrong ratios, technique misused as garnish, or homemade ingredient recipes that cannot be reproduced. For recipe checking, new drink development, or classic verification, the need is a traceable, quantified, verifiable workflow.

How the skill works

The skill organizes cocktail references into a local knowledge set and reads the relevant references files before answering, instead of relying on model memory.

• Classics: check iba-cocktails-web.csv and iba-cocktails.json first, then famous bar signatures.
• History: use cocktail-classics.md for origin, inventors, and cultural context.
• New drink design: follow recipe-design.md from concept, root recipe, similar structures, draft, cross-check, and technique parameters.
• Techniques and ingredients: take full parameters for milk wash, slow infusion, soaking, clarification, fat washing, foam, syrup, Bitters, Shrubs, Cordials from techniques.md and homemade-ingredients.md.
• Bar details: use glassware-garnish-ice.md for glass, garnish, and ice choices.

It requires amounts in ml, avoids emoji in formal output, and keeps recipes source-backed. If a reference is missing, it says so instead of guessing.

Limits

It fits recipe verification, draft development, technique lookup, and bar knowledge notes, but does not replace real test runs, food-safety judgment, or professional bar operations. For batch prep, realign “single drink × servings = output”; for homemade ingredients, confirm local materials and equipment are feasible.