About
What this site is, and how the recipes are made.
welcomedrinks.com is about one moment: the drink you hand someone as they walk in. Twelve drinks that survive being made for sixty, each with a jug recipe scaled to your headcount and an alcohol-free twin in the same glass.
Where the recipes come from
Each drink starts from a published specification, usually the International Bartenders Association's, sometimes the brand that invented it (Cipriani's Bellini, Aperol's spritz) or a named recipe writer, and the drink's page says whose spec it is and links to it. We then adapt it to a welcome pour, which is smaller than a bar pour, and to a jug, which is where most of the thinking on this site goes: what can wait in the fridge, what has to go in the glass at the door, and how much water a batch needs to replace the shaker's melt.
Where no reputable alcohol-free version exists we write our own and label it as ours. Where a house recipe stands in for a canonical one, the same. We do not claim to have tested anything we have not, and the batch maths page lists the source for every number it uses.
How this site is funded
It is not. There are no advertisements, no affiliate links and no sponsored recipes. If that ever changes, the page where it applies will say so in plain words next to the link.
Drink responsibly
A welcome drink is one drink. Our pours are small on purpose, every drink has an alcohol-free twin, and a quarter of every jug is meant for the people who are driving, pregnant, or simply not drinking tonight. Make sure they get the good glass.