Tools

ABV & proof

The drink in the glass, not the bottle. Juice, syrup and melt all drop the strength.

Ingredients in the glass

Use bottle ABV for each liquid. Juice, syrup and soda are 0. Water from ice is a separate line below.

From the dilution calculator, or the water you added to a batch.

Drink in the glass

Spec (before water)
0 ml
Finished volume
0 ml
Alcohol
0 ml
Drink ABV
0%
US proof
0
Std drinks (AU)
0

Australia uses % ABV on the bottle. US proof is twice the ABV, useful when a spec was written in the States. An Australian standard drink is 10 g of ethanol (0.789 g per ml). This is a training estimate, not a label.

Strength figures are working estimates for training. Ice, time, tin size and a hard shake will move the number. Taste the drink. These pages are not a lab result, a label, or a certification.

Bottle strength is not drink strength

A 40% ABV spirit is 40% until you add anything else. The guest drinks the mixed, diluted serve. That is the number this page calculates.

The working sum:

  1. Volume (ml) × ABV for each line, added together — millilitres of alcohol.
  2. All volumes added together, including water from ice or from a batch.
  3. Alcohol ÷ total × 100 is drink ABV.

Australia labels bottles in % ABV. US proof is twice that figure — handy when a spec sheet came from the States. An Australian standard drink is 10 g of ethanol. This calculator uses 0.789 g per ml of ethanol for a training estimate. It is not a lab certificate and not something to print as a legal claim.

Get the water line from the dilution calculator, then batch the spec if you are locking a keg or an event list. Background: Reading ABV in the glass.