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Cocktail calorie calculator
Build a round and total up what the recipes actually say it contains — calories, sugar, carbs and alcohol units together.
Every figure here comes from the recipe it belongs to. Nothing is estimated at calculation time, and the confidence level shown with your total is the weakest one among the drinks you picked, so a list containing one rough estimate does not come back looking precise.
Units are shown next to calories deliberately. A drinks list optimised on calories alone tends to end up stronger, not lighter, which is the one genuinely misleading thing a calculator like this could do.
Across 1 drink
- Calories
- 120
- UK units
- 0
- Sugar
- 24g
- Carbs
- 26g
Taken from the weakest recipe in your list — a total is only as good as its shakiest input.
- Alcohol-Free Bellini × 1120 kcal · 0 units
What each figure assumes
These are the recipes' own authored assumptions, not this calculator's. Nothing here is estimated at calculation time — the totals are sums of figures the catalogue already carried.
- Assumes lightly sweetened peach purée and a medium-dry alcohol-free sparkling wine.
What this is not
This is not dietary advice and makes no health claim. It reports what the catalogue records, in the same terms the catalogue records it. For guidance on units and lower-strength options, see responsible drinking and lighter drinks.
How this works
Alcohol carries seven calories per gram, which is closer to fat than to sugar, and it is usually the largest single contributor in a cocktail. That is why a dry Martini and a sweet fruit drink can land in the same place: one gets there from the spirit, the other from the sugar.
Where the calories come from
Pure alcohol is 7 kcal per gram, and 1ml of alcohol weighs about 0.789g — so a 25ml measure of a 40% spirit contributes roughly 55 kcal before anything else. Sugar is 4 kcal per gram, so 10ml of simple syrup at 1:1 is about 20 kcal.
Mixers vary enormously. Tonic water is around 35 kcal per 100ml; slimline is close to zero. Over a long drink that difference is larger than switching spirits.
Which changes actually move the number
Cutting sweetness is usually the smallest change and the one people try first. Using a lighter mixer, or making a shorter drink, moves the figure much further.
Cream and coconut are in a different category again. A Piña Colada or a Brandy Alexander is closer to a dessert than to a drink, and no substitution changes that meaningfully.
How the figures here are produced
Each recipe carries its own nutrition estimate, calculated from its stated ingredients at standard strengths and typical products, and marked with a confidence level. They are estimates, not measurements, and every one on this site says so.
A worked example: a Daiquiri
- 60ml white rum at 40%: 24ml of alcohol ≈ 19g ≈ 133 kcal.
- 25ml lime juice: about 6 kcal.
- 20ml simple syrup at 1:1: about 10g of sugar ≈ 40 kcal.
- Total: roughly 180 kcal, more than two-thirds of it from the rum.
- Halving the syrup saves 20 kcal. Halving the rum saves 66 and makes a different drink.
What it does not account for
- Brand and product differences, especially in liqueurs and mixers, where sugar content is rarely on the label.
- How much ice melts into the drink, which changes volume but not calories.
- Anything you top up by eye rather than measure.
- This is an estimate for planning, not a nutritional analysis, and it is not dietary advice.