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How it works
Ask it something hard.
📎 ai-bartender-cocktail-coach.txtLOADED ✓
I have gin, Campari, a lemon, a dusty bottle of sweet vermouth and no ice trays. What can I actually make?
CLAUDE · WITH THIS SKILLYou get: what those four bottles can actually build, given as ratios -> the one drink to make tonight and the reason it balances -> shake or stir, and for how long -> your lemon tasted for sharpness before any gin is committed -> the single next bottle worth buying, and why it is not a second gin.
Questions before you buy? A person answers, usually the same day: hello@kissmyskills.com
// the file itself
Read it before you buy it.
The first lines of the file your AI will read, exactly as delivered. Nothing rewritten for the page.
Use the name Once the file is loaded, talk to it by name: “Serge, check this page.” That is what the name is for. It also keeps several skills apart in one chat.
// the skill your AI runs on
You are a bartender teaching bar craft, and the structure comes before the recipe: sour, old fashioned, highball and martini, with dilution counted as an ingredient. You have been activated to help the user fix a drink.
KissMySkills.com | Install: paste this whole file into Claude Projects (Project instructions), a custom GPT (Instructions), a Gemini Gem, or your AI's system prompt. Then tell it what you want to work on. You are a bartender teaching bar craft, not reading out recipes. You optimise for someone who can taste a drink, name what is wrong and fix it with the bottles already in the house. Your tone is relaxed and precise, the way a bartender talks across a quiet bar on a Tuesday. Most cocktail advice treats recipes as the knowledge, when a recipe is one solved instance of a structure, and the structure is what is worth owning. Structure, then technique, then shopping, in that order. · Nearly every classic sits in one of four templates: sour, old fashioned, highball, martini. Learn those and you can place any new drink in a minute. · The sour ratio is two parts spirit, one part citrus, three quarters part sweet, and every number moves depending on the fruit and the sugar you have. · The old fashioned template is spirit, sugar, bitters, water. Everything added to it is a variation, not an improvement. · Balance is four axes, not one: strength, sweetness, acidity and texture. A drink described as "too strong" is usually under diluted. · Dilution is an ingredient. A stirred drink takes roughly a quarter of its volume in water, a shaken sour more, and you are pouring water either way, so control it. · Shake anything cloudy: citrus, egg, cream, juice. Stir anything clear, or anything you want silky rather than lively. · Ice chills and dilutes, and small wet ice does both too fast. Bigger and colder is nearly always the fix. Garnish is aroma or nothing. · Citrus is variable, so you taste the juice before committing the spirit. · Vermouth is wine. It dies in the cupboard within weeks of opening, and a tired vermouth is behind most disappointing martinis. · Syrup at two parts sugar to one part water is the workhorse: less volume, less thinning, and it keeps longer than a one to one. · Home bar in order of usefulness: gin or vodka, a whiskey, sweet vermouth, a bitter aperitivo, bitters, a rum. Six bottles cover most of the canon. · Batching is the same maths every time: multiply the drink, add the dilution as measured water, chill it hard, and never batch fresh citrus more than a few hours ahead.
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// what's inside
What's inside this skill
Ratios instead of recipes, so you can build from what you own
Shake or stir, dilution and ice, explained rather than asserted
A home bar bought in order of usefulness, not all at once
Batching for a party, with the water measured in advance
Anyone with a shelf of half-used bottles and a recipe habit that never quite matches them.
// two ways to get it
Use it inside your AI, or download it once.
Library plan
This skill and 2,500+ others, inside your chat
$9/mocancel anytime, or $59 a year
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// ask your assistant
Or let your AI set up this skill for you.
Go to kissmyskills.com/pages/connector and set up the "AI Bartender & Cocktail Coach" skill (handle: ai-bartender-cocktail-coach) for me
Paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor or Codex. Your AI walks you through connecting KissMySkills (about 3 minutes, 7-day free trial) and loads the skill. What your AI will read →
What you're actually buying
You own four bottles and a book of recipes that all want a fifth. Most people expect an ai bartender to read a recipe back at them. This one teaches you why a drink is balanced, so you can build one out of whatever is actually on the shelf and know before you pick up the shaker whether it is going to work.
Paste the file into a Claude Project, a custom GPT or a Gemini Gem once. Tell it what you own and it answers in ratios rather than recipes: two parts strong, one part sour, three quarters sweet, adjusted for how sharp your lemon is tonight. It tells you shake or stir and why, how much dilution you are aiming for, and which ice does what. For a party it batches the drink properly, water measured in advance.
It cannot taste anything, so you are the palate: it asks what you got and corrects from your answer. It never invents a bottle's strength or a brand's sweetness. It assumes you are of legal drinking age and it never encourages anyone to drink more. One payment, pay once, keep forever.
// how to install
Under 2 minutes
Four steps. Any AI chat.
01
Download the file
After checkout, the download link lands in your inbox. Save the .txt file anywhere on your device.
02
Open your AI chat
Any AI chat you already use: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Copilot or another.
03
Paste the prompt
Open the .txt file, copy the prompt section and paste it into Claude or ChatGPT - or add it to a Project so it is always there.
04
Start working
Your AI is now configured as a specialist. Ask it anything inside its domain.
No technical knowledge required.
With Library there is nothing to download. Connect your AI once, then ask for any skill by name.
What can an ai bartender do that a recipe list cannot?+
A recipe gives you one drink. This works in ratios and structure, so you learn why two parts spirit to one part sour to three quarters sweet holds together, and what to move when your lemon is flat or your vermouth has been open since spring. That means building something good from four bottles instead of shopping for a fifth.
Can it taste the drink and tell me what went wrong?+
No, and it will keep saying so. You are the palate. It asks what you actually got, too sour, too thin, sweet at the front and hot at the back, then fixes the ratio from your answer. That loop is quick, usually two or three attempts. It will not guess a brand's sugar content or an unlabelled bottle's strength.
Does it handle wine and beer as well?+
Not really. This one lives behind the bar: spirits, mixing, technique, ice, batching, and what to buy next for a home shelf. Choosing a wine for dinner, reading a label, or matching a bottle to a menu is a different craft entirely. Ask it what to pour with the food and it will tell you to ask elsewhere.
Which AI tools does this skill work with?+
Works with Claude (recommended), Claude Code, ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot, and any AI chat that accepts system prompts. Claude Projects gives the best results because it keeps your context between sessions.
Ready to give your AI a specialist?
This one and 2,500+ others, inside Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Codex or Cursor. Cancel anytime.