Whichever style of jigger you decide to go with, make sure the next time you pour a shot or craft a cocktail, you have some sort of ‘thingamajig’. John Jenkins is the UK’s leading supplier of handmade glass for prestigious hotels and restaurants around the world. In 1957 he designed the cocktail shaker 870 with Luigi Massoni, which is still in production and can be found in bars worldwide. Many cocktail jiggers are double-sided so that turning such measures over reveals a second size of measuring cylinder or cone. Use water to determine the volume of any glass: Pour one jigger of water at a time until the glass is full and translate that into ounces: four 1 1/2-ounce jiggers equals 6 ounces.

It is worth noting that not all countries will allow the free pouring of drinks, and there are different country specific rules set forth.

This is further complicated by those used to working with 25ml as the standard measure also thinking in fractions of that measure. Hence, the cone shape of our Easy Jigger which elongates small measures to such an extent that its graduations start at 1. The Cocktail Society are a team of cocktail obsessives who want to elevate drinking culture in the UK and beyond. Honey – Due to being easier to measure and use, I'm gradually moving our recipes away from using raw honey to honey syrup. However, because cocktails and cocktail culture originated in the USA, many and most cocktail recipes still use imperial measurements - so it’s important to know both.

We create handcrafted, small-batch bottled cocktails and premium cocktail kits for you to enjoy in the comfort of your own home. That's why we designed our Easy Jigger, which, as the name suggests, is easy to use, measures in millilitres and ounces, and we believe is the most accurate graduated bar jigger available.A drop dispensed from the pipette is the smallest bartending measure and after patiently dripping, counting, and measuring, I've found approx. Those are very straightforward, but what happens when you come across a cocktail that uses the term "parts" instead?