Draft Cocktails Are a Gas System First
If you do not control pressure, blend, and temperature together, your keg program is guessing.
Most draft cocktail failures are not recipe failures. They are gas-system failures.
Operators obsess over spirit brand and garnish, then leave regulator pressure and serving temperature to chance. That breaks the entire program before first pour.
Draft service is a three-variable lock: temperature, pressure, and gas blend. Move one variable without moving the others and the pour profile drifts fast.
If the product runs warmer than target, dissolved CO2 exits solution early. You get breakout in the line, foam at the faucet, and flat liquid in the glass.
If pressure is too low for the product temperature, carbonation drops and texture collapses. If pressure is too high for the setup, you over-carbonate, stress the keg, and pour chaos.
That is why Draft mode exists in Daily Libations as a dedicated control family. It is not just another recipe tab. It is a dispense model wrapped around flavor.
Start with a known profile window, lock storage and serving temperatures, then tune pressure in narrow steps. Do not jump 5 PSI at a time and pretend you learned anything.
When the gas system is stable, recipe decisions finally become meaningful. Sweetness, acid, and ABV will then read the way you designed them.
Build with intent. Measure drift. Document settings by shift. That is how draft programs become repeatable.