How Much is Inside a Cocktail?

Check out these giant bottles of Cointreau.

My margarita recipe calls for a half ounce, and it is the most expensive ingredient.

1 1/2 oz. Tequila - 54¢
1/2 oz. Cointreau - 88¢
1/2 oz. Lemon Juice - 6¢
Lemon Wedge - 12¢

Total - $1.60

To throw a cocktail party, you might try to buy a bottle of everything.

It's impossible. Most people build up a bar full of ingredients over the course of many parties.

Here's how: Go to a bunch of parties and steal one bottle from each.

My cocktail calculations were going well, but I had to try out these recipes in the field.

After Nick's birthday dinner, we got some friends and liquor mixed together.

Meaghan got us started with Chocolate Cake shots:

1/2 oz. vodka - 11¢
1/2 oz Frangelico - 42¢
sugar 1¢
lemon wedge 12¢

Total - 66¢

Kamakazis are more to my liking.

1 1/2 oz. vodka - 33¢
1/2 oz triple sec - 10¢
1/2 oz. lime juice - 9¢

Total - 52¢

Anna's vodka tonic.

1 oz. vodka - 22¢
4 oz. tonic - 8¢
lemon wedge - 12¢

Total - 42¢

Comparing the taste of a regular White Russian versus one made with egg nog.

2 oz. vodka - 44¢
1 oz. Kahlua - 48¢
2 oz. cream - 24¢

Total - $1.16

(egg nog extra)