Bar Stocking Recommendations
If you’re a budding amateur home mixologist and want to stock up your bar but don’t know where to start, then you may want to try this guide. It goes over how to stock your bar with quality basics fairly inexpensively. Since the gist of it is all in one giant, unreadable, and ungrammatical paragraph, I’ve broken it down for you:
- Buy Vodka (Stolichnaya), Rum (Bacardi light), Tequila (Jose Cuervo), Gin (Beefeater), Bourbon (Old Forester), Scotch (Dewar’s), and Triple sec.
- Add flavored vodkas and Malibu coconut rum.
- Buy mixers: Cola, Lemon-lime soda, Diet cola, Cranberry juice cocktail, Orange juice, and Pineapple juice.
- Consider adding these mixers: ginger ale, tonic water, Red Bull, pomegranate juice, and peach juice.
- For wines, fill a small rack with medium reds such as shiraz or grenache.
- For white wine, try riesling.
- Add beer. If you don’t know beer, then add Bud Light.
- Buy glasses: 6-8 rocks glasses and wine glasses.
- Later consider highball glasses, martini glasses, brandy snifters, shot glasses, champagne flutes, cordial glasses or various types of wine glasses.
- Next get tools: Shakers (one large, one small, for martinis, Manhattans and other drinks), Strainer (sometimes comes attached to a shaker), Picks for garnishes (such as olives and fruit), Pour spouts (remove and recap bottles when the party’s over), Corkscrew (the simpler, the better), and Bottle opener.
- Last, figure out how to use this stuff by surfing the Internet.
While I personally disagree with some of these choices (Bud Light? Come on!), this should be good for typical Joe American.
