Crafting Your Signature Cocktails
Like Duolingo, but for Crafting Your Signature Cocktails. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
54 levels across 4 sections, about 108 minutes end to end, roughly 22 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Mix Your First Masterpiece, Develop Your Palate and Style, Design Your Own Recipes, and The Science of Spirits. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in Crafting Your Signature Cocktails
- The spirit is the base and requires the most volume
- Sweet and sour components are used in equal parts to balance each other
- The specific proportions of the Golden Ratio (2:1:1)
- Sourness is neutralized by adding more sweet component
- Adding more spirit would increase volume without fixing the pH balance
- How to fix a drink that is too sharp/acidic
- Poor ratios mask the nuances of expensive spirits
- Balance is the foundation that allows spirit character to shine
- Fruits are categorized by their sugar or acid content
- The 2:1:1 framework remains the same regardless of the specific fruit used
- The priority of balance over ingredient quality
- Applying the ratio to create new fruit-based recipes
- Cloying means the sweet component is overpowering
- A lack of acidity fails to 'cut' the sugar on the palate
- Identifying the characteristics of a 'cloying' drink
- Spirit-only drinks should be stirred to maintain clarity
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Crafting Your Signature Cocktails the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
When following the Golden Ratio, how do the sweet and sour portions compare to one another?
Get it right to open this lesson and 53 more in the app.
Where Crafting Your Signature Cocktails takes you
Stop following recipes and start writing them. Learn the secret ratios behind every great drink and build a personal cocktail book that impresses every guest.
- 1
Mix Your First Masterpiece
- The Golden Ratio for Balanced Drinks
- Shaking vs Stirring: When to Do Which
- Essential Tools for Your Home Bar
- How to Use Ice as an Ingredient
- 2
Develop Your Palate and Style
- Sweet, Sour, and Bitter: Finding Balance
- The Art of the Garnish
- Choosing the Right Glass for the Vibe
- Tasting Like a Professional Mixologist
- How Bubbles Change the Flavor
- Using Salt and Herbs to Pop
- 3
Design Your Own Recipes
- Swapping Spirits in Classic Templates
- Making Your Own Syrups and Infusions
- Naming Your Signature Creations
- 4
The Science of Spirits
- How Different Alcohols are Made
- The Chemistry of Citrus and Acid
- Why Certain Flavors Pair Together
- The History of the World's Most Famous Drinks
- Understanding Proof and Dilution
4 sections · 18 units · 54 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
Crafting Your Signature Cocktails is taught in the The Bestie style: your friend who just gets it. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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