The Secret to Perfectly Balanced Cocktails

Balancing Cocktails is a fundamental part of cocktail basics. Evaluating cocktails and learning whether a drink is balanced or not is one of, if not the most, important skill you need when making cocktails. How to balance a cocktail should be its own class. Luckily for you, I am here.
Making properly balanced cocktails has to be easy right? You throw a bunch of ingredients together, and bam. You have a cocktail, right? Well not really. In this video, I show you how to Balance a Cocktail.
Learning how to properly balance a cocktail is a fundamental skill and one that you will use for as long as you drink. It is about understanding the relationship between all of the ingredients in each cocktail, but you must train yourself to be able to distinguish the differences and nuance in cocktail ingredient flavors.
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This video is part of an ongoing series on Cocktail basics. I am sharing my knowledge on how to make cocktails in the hope that you too can make some awesome cocktails at home or wherever you make your drinks.
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• Introduction to Cockta...
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Chapters
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0:00 - Introduction
0:30 - Why Balance is Important
1:10 - Evaluating a Cocktail
2:00 - Tasting Exercise
4:00 - Tasting
5:30 - Conclusion
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[@JordanLikesYouAlot]

I am a brand new bartender and love the explanations you give. It would be helpful to see the amounts of each ingredients listed for longer and hear from you how you personally balance citrus with sweet, etc. I got the gist from this video, but would love for more specifics from you! Now on to your more recent videos...can't wait!

[@Lui_Fern]

Thank you so much Jordan! Happy you got something from this video. I posted a short version of it on my Instagram/TikTok but this exercise is one i use to train my bartenders as well!

[@stockicide]

Great idea! Thanks for sharing.

[@Lui_Fern]

You're so welcome!

[@gregbarnes3539]

Great video and I like that you are sharing them to my FB group. Hoping you get more views and subscribers from the group to your channel as well.

[@Lui_Fern]

Thank you! I'm glad you have been enjoying them! That really means a lot. And I'm just happy to share some knowledge with everyone that I can. Happy there are groups and communities of people who enjoy making drinks.
If they can learn even just 1 thing from me I'll be happy

[@naicesmassun8442]

I know it’s right if my wife doesn’t make a bitter beer face when she tries it. ;)

[@Lui_Fern]

Haha that's also a great test! Gotta have other people drink them as well, especially loved ones. They'll be honest

[@pooterk91]

question: why did you increase by .5 oz instead of by .25?