Tory Pratt

From the founder of Pratt Standard

Make better drinks. Starting with the syrup.

I spent ten years making cocktail syrups for bars, stadiums and home bartenders, and teaching people how a great drink works. These books are everything I learned, written for your kitchen and your bar.

An Old Fashioned made with Pratt Standard Kola syrup, with an orange peel over a large ice cube

The books

Three books, coming soon

For home bartenders

The Cocktail Syrup Book

The formula for making any syrup you want, plus every Pratt Standard syrup scaled down to a 16oz batch for your kitchen.

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For home bartenders

Cocktail Theory

How a great drink actually works: the ratios, the families, and how to build your own. The material from my cocktail classes, in one place.

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For bars and restaurants

The Bar Citrus Program

How to juice, store and preserve citrus so it holds for weeks in the walk-in, with the cost math to prove it was worth it.

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Free

The syrup formula

The one-page formula I used to build every Pratt Standard syrup. Sugar, liquid, flavor and acid, and which method to use for what.

Tory Pratt

About

Hi, I'm Tory

I founded Pratt Standard Cocktail Co. in Washington, DC, and made craft cocktail syrups for Whole Foods, Nationals Park, Capital One Arena and hundreds of bars and shops across the country.

Along the way I taught more than 20,000 home bartenders and over 1,000 working bartenders in classes. Pratt Standard closed in 2025, and these books are how the recipes and the teaching keep going.

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