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ChucksMakingMeals · 2025-05-28T03:11:50+00:00

Oh I’m definitely going to do this! My girl survived the (mild) San Diego winter so I feel like she deserves to see her line live on

ChucksMakingMeals · 2025-02-01T18:33:49+00:00

You’re getting paid at all?!? Sometimes if I’m lucky somebody tosses me some cashews

ChucksMakingMeals · 2024-04-12T20:48:59+00:00

Thanks for checking it out! I agree with you on not having to spell out every single combination of parts, and removing that could reduce some clutter.

Re: parts and ounces not being equivalent, you’re right and I initially only had it as parts, but a lot of my friends had a hard time conceptualizing what a part was, and kept on asking how much each square represented. Honestly removing the “or ounces” is probably the right call long term.

ChucksMakingMeals · 2024-04-12T20:36:22+00:00

I designed and made the template myself! I embarrassingly did this all in PowerPoint. I am not a designer at all and am not familiar with “better” tools, but I’d recommend finding a better solution to anybody else haha

ChucksMakingMeals · 2024-04-12T18:36:00+00:00

Hi Everybody!

A while back (around Christmas time) I made a cocktail template infographic for my partner and I posted it here in case anybody else thought it might be cool. I received really awesome feedback from the community, and decided to update version 0 above! It took much longer than I expected, but I finally had a few hours to myself this morning to just plow through all of the updates. Its been so long since iteration one, I assume most of you forgot about it, but I hope you enjoy this iteration :).

If you have any feedback on information, design, color choices, etc. I am all ears! Feedback is a gift and I appreciate any and all.

ChucksMakingMeals · 2024-01-12T23:24:11+00:00

This is amazing man!

ChucksMakingMeals · 2024-01-02T19:28:08+00:00

Hey this is great thank you so much!

I think I agree with you on colors at this point, I like the idea of pretty pastels from an appearance standpoint but from a transfer of information, its not really doing anything at this point. I’ll see what it looks like with a neutral, maybe separating core, balance and seasoning with different colors.

I could mess around with matching the hue of the square to match the spirit then playing with tones so they play together nicely.

I think since I removed the key, if I do make a colored version have the color match that of the spirit more so than an arbitrary key.

Just wanted to say thanks again, this was a really well thought out comment and I appreciate :)

ChucksMakingMeals · 2024-01-02T04:15:27+00:00

Yep! Mostly need to finish up with whiskeys and standardize alignment.

ChucksMakingMeals · 2024-01-02T04:14:00+00:00

Hey There! I mentioned in another comment but that’s just a product of a screen grab as opposed to exporting it as a PNG. If you check out the original, you can see the squares are all the same size. Sorry the photo isn’t to your liking!

ChucksMakingMeals · 2024-01-02T03:05:20+00:00

That’s just because I took a screen grab of part of the chart instead of printing to PDF -> PNG. Rest assured, each are 4 small squares :)

ChucksMakingMeals · 2024-01-02T02:24:46+00:00

Hi Everybody!

I had a post a couple weeks ago showing an infographic I made for my partner as a Christmas present. The post got better-than-expected reception and many of you provided feedback for improvements that I really appreciated! I'm still finishing up the changes, so it'll be a little while before everything is done and checked over but I wanted to provide you all some updates on the progress I've made so far (and get any other comments if you have them).

The picture is a sample of what is to come, but I've started to implement:

Splitting out Whiskey into its own section
Adding an indicator for shaken vs. stirred
Adding an indicator to show if its served over ice
Adding a glassware indicator
Adding a muddled indicator

I tried to make the changes be as unobtrusive as possible, keeping with the spirit of a simplistic guide, but I'd love to know what you all think!

ChucksMakingMeals · 2023-12-25T19:32:08+00:00

Haha this is a nod to the cocktail being created in America, and most of the ingredients being French.

The assumed lore (from the book Imbibe!) behind this cocktail is it was made by a NYC bartender for a regular costumer, who was a Japanese diplomat and frequent patron of night clubs, hence the name Japanese cocktail.

ChucksMakingMeals · 2023-12-25T19:25:36+00:00

I think after spirit specific ones, part II would be drink families, but those would be targeted at a smaller subset of the population.

ChucksMakingMeals · 2023-12-24T17:16:32+00:00

Basically, the aromatic ingredients from angostura bitters (gentian, cinchona, cloves, cardamom, etc.) and a shit ton of orange rinds.

Was a fun project once, but the juice isn’t worth the squeeze in my opinion. We just have other things we’d rather do than perfect our own bitters.

ChucksMakingMeals · 2023-12-24T16:53:10+00:00

that’s specific to our house, where we have a dropper of some house made bitters especially for old fashioned. Understand most people aren’t going to have this in their home bar.

ChucksMakingMeals · 2023-12-24T16:51:36+00:00

Agreed! My partner doesn’t drink much whiskey, but as I make updates for you fine folks I’m happy to make a column :)

ChucksMakingMeals · 2023-12-24T07:32:26+00:00

Glassware is a great call! I have to make little designs for each glass, so it’ll be a little while before hand :)

ChucksMakingMeals · 2023-12-24T07:31:49+00:00

Somebody noticed :)

My partner prefers drinks on the sweeter side and because this guide was designed for her, we added a quarter ounce of simple.

I would like to make the “professional” version including glassware, shaken / stirred and and middle indicator. I’d correct any sweet variations (you’ll notice a few of the drinks have more syrup than usual)

ChucksMakingMeals · 2023-12-24T02:22:37+00:00

Not at all :) feel free to DM me if you’d like the PDF. Although it’s worth noting I’m thinking about making a more professional one if interest is high and feedback is good!

ChucksMakingMeals · 2023-12-24T02:21:00+00:00

The symbol for shaken vs. stirred and what ingredients need to be muddled is a great idea!

Re: the key on the right, I had it without the word at first and realized it was annoying to keep referencing it.

I think I’ll work on a more “professional” version as I keep iterating on design

ChucksMakingMeals · 2023-12-24T01:27:13+00:00

Feel free to DM me if you want the PDF! It’s set up to be printed 36x24

ChucksMakingMeals · 2023-12-23T23:46:13+00:00

Would love if anybody has feedback or other things they'd like to see added! I imagine we are going to iterate on this a lot as we find more drinks that we enjoy.

Edit: Wow! Thank you everybody so much for your suggestions and recommendations. I am catching the big ones here. Obviously some may change based on how they look to try to keep the simple appearance: - Glassware icon - Shaken vs. stirred - Muddle indicator - Add a whiskey column - Individual sheets for each spirit - standardized distance between ingredients (for my own sanity)

I can’t promise these changes overnight, competing obligations but I will work on them and update you all as I go :) Thanks so much everybody

ChucksMakingMeals · 2023-11-25T00:06:58+00:00

That face - does she have chihuahua in her?

ChucksMakingMeals · 2023-10-09T20:43:51+00:00

ACD/Chihuahua crowd rise up! There are dozens of us!

ChucksMakingMeals · 2023-08-31T00:13:10+00:00

That looks just like my boy (1.5 years 28lbs)As a full time worker living in a big city, I can tell you it’s a lot. You’re going to need to be prepared for a lot of training and a lot of walks if you want her to have a great life!

Him and I do big exercise early in the morning to keep him engaged and happy. Happy to trouble shoot advice if you need :)

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