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Bloody Mary recipe

Vodka and tomato juice with lemon and the full savoury spice rack.

A Bloody Mary is 45 ml (42.3 g) Vodka, 90 ml (94.5 g) Tomato Juice, 15 ml (15.5 g) Fresh Lemon Juice and 1 ml (1 g) Seasoning, built and served in a highball glass. It pours to about 151 ml before ice, at roughly 12.2% ABV. Weighing the ingredients instead of measuring them is what keeps the balance identical from one round to the next.

  • Glasshighball glass
  • Methodbuilt
  • Pour volume151 ml
  • Strength (est.)12.2% ABV
  • Time3 min
A Bloody Mary served in a highball glass

Bloody Mary ingredients — in millilitres and grams

Grams are what the PourPilot coaster actually targets. They are not the same as the millilitres: a spirit is lighter than water, a syrup is heavier, so 30 ml of one is never 30 g. The right-hand column is the density we use, in grams per millilitre.

Bloody Mary ingredients with volume, weight and density
IngredientVolumeWeightg/mlNotes
Vodka 45 ml 42.3 g 0.94 Weighed by the coaster
Tomato Juice 90 ml 94.5 g 1.05 Weighed by the coaster
Fresh Lemon Juice 15 ml 15.5 g 1.03 Weighed by the coaster
Seasoning 1 ml 0.98 Worcestershire, Tabasco, salt & pepper

How to make a Bloody Mary

  1. Set your highball glass on the scale (or on the PourPilot coaster) and zero it. Every measurement below is given in millilitres and in grams, so you can use either.
  2. Fill the highball glass with fresh ice.
  3. Build Vodka, Tomato Juice and Fresh Lemon Juice straight into the glass, weighing each pour.
  4. Finish with worcestershire, Tabasco, salt & pepper of Seasoning.
  5. Stir once, briefly, to combine.

Bloody Mary: the questions people actually ask

How strong is a Bloody Mary?

Roughly 12.2% ABV as poured, before the ice dilutes it — typically another 15–25% water by the time you finish stirring or shaking. Medium strength. About the same as a fortified wine, poured short.

What glass should a Bloody Mary be served in?

A highball glass. Fill it with fresh ice, not the ice you mixed with.

Can I make a Bloody Mary without a jigger?

Yes — that is what the gram column is for. Put the glass or tin on a kitchen scale, zero it, and pour to the weight. It is more accurate than a jigger because nothing is left clinging to the inside of the measure. The PourPilot coaster does the same thing without you having to watch a display: it lights up as you approach the target and tells you when to stop.

Why are some ingredients not weighed?

Dashes of bitters and rinses are too small to weigh reliably — a dash is roughly 0.8 ml, well inside the noise of any bar scale. Count them instead. Everything else in this Bloody Mary is weighed.

The PourPilot coaster

Pour a Bloody Mary without measuring anything

The PourPilot coaster weighs your glass as you pour and lights up when you hit the number. Every recipe on this site — all 124 of them — is built into the free app, in grams, ready to pour.

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