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Posted on October 24, 2007 by Jason Petrina | Posted under Food & Drink
Stocking Your Bar With The Basic Drinks
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On the other hand, if you simply want to set up your own personal bar for the purpose of frequent entertaining, you can usually get by less drink knowledge. Keep in mind; however, that a well stocked personal bar should contain the elements to make a wide variety of basic drinks. A well stocked personal bar, at a minimum, should include the following drink ingredients: bourbon, brandy, cognac, Triple Sec, Grenadine, Bitters, Crème de Menthe, Gin, Kahlúa, Rum, Tequila, dry Vermouth, Vodka and several types of whiskey including Rye, Scotch, Irish and blended. If your budget can be stretched, you may also want to include other items such as several types of beer, Bailey's Irish Cream, Absente, a selection of fruit flavored brandies, Midori, several flavors of Schnapps, both red and white wine selections and port. Of course, a complete bar must also contain a variety of mixers, flavorings and garnishes to create a host of different mixed drinks, so be sure to consider the following as well: lemons, limes, lemon and lime juice, cherries, orange juice, salt, pepper, distilled water, tomato juice, club soda, ginger ale, carbonated water, a variety of carbonated sodas, eggs, hot sauce, several types of fruit juices, milk, coffee, heavy cream, green olives, cocktail onions, coffee liqueurs, fresh fruit and ice cream. With these basic ingredients you can create over one hundred drink combinations. Of course, it can get very expensive very quickly to begin stocking a personal bar, so you may wish to do it in stages. In that case, at a minimum, you should have several types of carbonated soda, fruit juices, beer, wine, a good whiskey, vodka and rum on hand. If you're not a professional bar tender, certainly no one can expect you to have hundreds of drink recipes memorized, but it can come in handy to be able to mix a few basic drinks by rote memory without the need to refer back to a master drink book. A few of the most popular drinks that you should be able to create when entertaining frequently include: martini, daiquiri, margarita, Collins, highball, sour, spritzer, coller and a rickey. These drink recipes are excellent for beginners because they contain relatively few ingredients. In fact a number of them contain only two ingredients, with differences varying according to the drink preference of your guest. For example, a guest may ask for a Rum Rickey while another may ask for a whiskey Rickey. Both drinks are made with 1 ½ ounces of the guest's preferred liquor and club soda. The same is true of highballs, substituting ginger ale for the club soda. About The Author: Jason Petrina is the Editor and Publisher of Article Click. For more FREE articles for your ezine and websites visit - www.articleclick.com |
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