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How much aquafaba per cocktail? Quantity calculator

A Saturday night is easier when the aquafaba is already made up. Tell the calculator how many sours you expect and it gives you the aquafaba for the service, with the whiskey, the lemon and the syrup to pre-batch alongside, in liquid or in powder with its water, from the VERY AQUAFABA whiskey sour. Updated: 15 October 2026.

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VERY AQUAFABA liquid	20 ml
VERY AQUAFABA powder	1.3g
Water for the powder	20 ml
Whiskey per cocktail	50 ml
Lemon juice per cocktail	25 ml
Simple syrup per cocktail	20 ml
Makes about	1 cocktail
Batches of the recipe	1

Unchanged whatever the batch size

Times, temperatures and equipment do not scale with the ingredients.

Unchanged whatever the batch size
Dry shake	10 to 15 s
Shake with ice	10 to 15 s

Source: VERY AQUAFABA, Whiskey Sour with Aquafaba (October 2026)

What changes with a busier service, and what doesn't

Aquafaba, whiskey, lemon, syrup, powder and water scale in a straight line with the number of drinks. Made-up powder is chilled before service, however many drinks it covers. The shakes do not scale.

Every drink is shaken to order: a dry shake of 10 to 15 seconds without ice, where the foam is made, then 10 to 15 seconds with ice to chill and dilute.
Busy service? Pre-batch the whiskey, lemon and syrup. Add the aquafaba at the shake, never in the batch: aquafaba added to the pre-batch gives no height by mid-service.
Measure 20 ml with a jigger every time. Free pouring is what makes drinks uneven.

How many sours will you get from a pack?

Knowing your sours a week, here is what each pack is worth.

Pack	Cocktails
1L Tetrapak of liquid	50
10L bag-in-box of liquid	500
200g pouch of powder	150
3kg pouch of powder	2,250

Whether to buy liquid or powder depends on how fast you get through a pack: an opened 1L pack is used within 3 to 4 days, while an opened pouch, kept dry and closed, keeps until its best-before date. The cocktail guide settles it.

Example: preparing 40 sours for a Saturday night

Say you expect 40 sours on a Saturday night. Here is what to have ready:

Liquid: 800 ml of VERY AQUAFABA, 2,000 ml of whiskey, 1,000 ml of lemon juice and 800 ml of simple syrup.
Powder: 53g of powder made up with 800 ml of water before service, chilled.
Pre-batch: the whiskey, lemon and syrup can be batched ahead; the aquafaba goes into the tin per drink, at the shake.

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Frequently asked questions

How much aquafaba do I use per cocktail?

20 ml of chilled aquafaba per drink, in place of the egg white. A 1L Tetrapak makes 50 cocktails and a 200g pouch of powder makes 150.

Can I batch the aquafaba with the base?

No. Batch the whiskey, lemon and syrup only, and add the aquafaba per drink at the shake. Aquafaba in the pre-batch loses its height by mid-service.

How much water do I add to the powder?

30 ml for every 2g of powder. For one drink that is 1.3g of powder and 20 ml of water; for a service, the calculator scales both.

Does a larger service change the shake?

No. Every drink gets its dry shake of 10 to 15 seconds and its shake with ice of 10 to 15 seconds. The number of drinks changes the stock, not the method.

Does aquafaba change the taste of the drink?

No. In the pack, VERY AQUAFABA has a light roasted note from the cooking of the chickpeas, and once shaken into a drink it disappears: the foam carries no taste of its own, and the flavour stays with your whiskey, lemon and syrup.

Where do the drink figures come from?

From the whiskey sour recipe on this site: 50 ml of whiskey, 25 ml of lemon juice, 20 ml of simple syrup and 20 ml of aquafaba per drink. The full method is in the whiskey sour recipe.

How much aquafaba per cocktail? Quantity calculator