Stop guessing how much to buy.
Tell us the event. We'll build the whole bar — spirits, wine, beer, mixers, garnish — sized to the guest count and priced by the bottle. Plan it, build it and order it in one place, and it ships to the door.
Every bar calculator online hands you one number and hides how it got there. Most of them round each cocktail separately, which quietly adds a bottle for every recipe that overlaps.
We sell the alcohol too — which is exactly why the assumptions are on the screen. The pour size, the drinks per bottle, what got rounded up, what will be left over. You can argue with a number you can see.
Planning a bar means knowing how many drinks 120 people have in four hours, how much tequila three cocktails share, how many bottles that actually rounds to, and which of it can ship to your state. That's five different problems. We built one tool for all of them.
What you'll be able to do
Tell it about the event, watch the plan build
Guest count, hours, event type, and roughly what the crowd drinks. Change any of it and the whole plan re-prices instantly.
Pick your level — well, call, premium, or top shelf
The same four tiers a real bar runs on. Set one for the whole bar, then pin individual bottles wherever you want to spend more. Run the bar at call and put Cointreau in the margaritas.
Choose your cocktails, or build your own
Pick from our cocktail library, or write your own recipe and choose exactly which bottle fills each ingredient.
See the whole order, and edit every line
Every bottle with its quantity, its price, what it's used in, and what it costs per drink. Swap, upgrade, or change quantities on anything.
Order it yourself, or hand it to whoever's paying
Buy it outright, or share a link. They check off what they already have, adjust what they want, and order it under their own account.
Get the parts we shouldn't ship
Limes, ice, fresh mint and 2L mixers don't belong in a box crossing the country. Those come as a separate list to pick up near the venue.
Save the bar, run it again next time
Every plan you build is saved. Next event, open the one that worked, change the guest count and the date, and you're done. Custom programmes come back exactly as you left them.
Pick the replacement yourself when something's out
If a bottle can't be filled, you choose what takes its place — a named alternative, a different expression, or another bottle in the same category. Nothing gets swapped for you.
Where the arithmetic actually is
It rounds once, across the whole menu
If your margaritas and your cosmos both want orange liqueur, we add up everything that needs it and round to bottles once. Most calculators round per cocktail and quietly sell an extra bottle for every recipe that overlaps.
It only recommends what's actually in stock for your state
Allocated bottles are the whole reason bar planning is hard. If we can only send six of something, the plan says six and fills the rest with a named alternative — before you ever see a number.
Every substitution is visible
No silent swaps. If a bottle is short, the plan says which one, how many, and why — and hands the choice of replacement back to you rather than making it quietly.
It tells you when a bottle is only pulling one shift
Buying a $50 liqueur used in exactly one cocktail is a fine decision — it just shouldn't be an accidental one. Every line shows what it's used in and what it costs per drink.
The toast is its own calculation
A champagne toast is a four-ounce pour, about six glasses to a bottle — not the same as wine service, and not part of the drink count. It gets its own line, and its own tier, because most people buy better bubbly for the toast than for dinner.
Poured wine at dinner changes everything
If servers are pouring with the meal, nearly every drinking guest gets a glass whether they'd have chosen it or not. That reshapes the whole plan, so it's a question we ask rather than an assumption we make.
You decide how much is left over
Some want a stocked bar the morning after. Some want the bar to wind down at last call. Pick which, and we'll show the surplus honestly — including the extra that comes from rounding up to whole bottles, which every other calculator hides.
If you do this for a living
Two different problems, depending on who buys the alcohol.
If you buy the alcohol yourself
Caterers, venues, licensed operators
If your licence means you're buying at retail rather than from a distributor, you already know the problem: you're working from whatever your local store happens to have on the shelf that week.
We're a retailer with ten thousand SKUs, allocated bottles included, and a tool that sizes the order for you. Build the plan for next Saturday's 140-person wedding, adjust it for the one after, and have it delivered.
Talk to us about your eventsIf your client buys the alcohol
Event planners, bar services, mobile bartenders
You can't sell the alcohol. You can build the order.
Put the plan together, send your client a link, and they buy it themselves. You keep the client relationship and the credit for the work. We handle the licensing, the shipping and the compliance.
And there's a commission in it for you, on the same footing as our affiliate programme — ask us how it works.
Tell us what you needThe part that isn't arithmetic
One flat shipping rate per case
$20 flat, whether the case is one bottle or twelve. Bar orders run to cases, so the shipping is predictable before you've finished building the plan.
Ten events, ten addresses, none of them your car
Build a separate order for each event and send each one where it's going. Nothing gets collected, stored in your hallway and driven across three states. Your bottles arrive, and you arrive.
Time it so it lands when you want it
Two to four weeks ahead is the comfortable window for an event this size. Order earlier than that and we can hold the shipment so it doesn't turn up a month before the wedding and sit in somebody's garage.
Larger orders are a conversation
Scale changes what's possible on price, and we'd rather work it out with you than publish a table that's wrong for your event. Tell us what you're planning and we'll come back with what it costs.
There's always a person
The tool does the arithmetic. For everything it can't — a bottle you can't find, a venue with opinions, a timeline that's gone sideways — you get someone who does this for a living.
Or pour your own barrel.
For a wedding or a company party that wants one bottle nobody else has: we can help you source a private barrel, pick it, and put your name on the label. It takes a good deal longer than an event plan does, so start that conversation early.
One barrel, one owner
You pick it, you take every bottle it yields. Nobody else gets a pour from that cask, and the label carries your name.
Retailer of record handled
Our licensed retail partner acts as the retailer of record — the same partner every order here ships from. You are not standing up a licence to do this.
The barrel comes too
Every bottle ships to you, and so does the cask itself. Most of them end up in a lobby, a bar or an office long after the whiskey is gone.
Ships to 44 states + DC + PR · Adult signature required (21+) at delivery. A barrel is a large shipment — we'll confirm what's possible to your address before anything is committed.
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Bar planning, answered
How much alcohol do I need for 100 guests?
How many drinks come out of a 750ml bottle?
Where do you ship?
How far ahead should I order?
Do you sell mixers and garnish?
I run events professionally — is this for me?
When does it open?
Do you discount larger orders?
Can you ship one event to one address and another somewhere else?
Can you source a private barrel for our event?
Tell us about the event. We'll do the arithmetic.
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