How to Stock Your Bar with Quality Alcohol

A bar is not a bar without alcohol, and all alcohol is not the same. Quality alcohol is often referred to as top shelf because that is where bars keep the good stuff. To stock your bar with quality alcohol, you need to get top shelf brands. Here's how to stock your bar with quality alcohol.

Things You'll Need

• Bar
• Drink recipe book

Instructions

1. The first step is to decide what type of alcohol you want to stock. This depends on the type of drinks you plan on serving.

2. Buy a drink recipe book. Once you decide on what drinks you plan on serving, get a recipe book showing the ingredients needed for each particular drink.

3. Create a list of what you need. Write down the types and necessary amounts of alcohol, such as vodka, gin, rum and tequila.

4. Bring your list to the nearest grocery or liquor store. Find the aisle that has the particular type of alcohol you are looking for.

5. Buy the quality brands. Just as in bars, stores will have the quality brands on the top shelves. As a general rule of thumb, the more expensive the product, the higher the quality of the alcohol.

Tips & Warnings

• All beers are not the same either. To ensure you have quality beer stocked, consider purchasing micro-brewed or imported specialty beers.

• If you are expecting lots of guests, also have some lower-quality alcohol stocked in case you run out of the top shelf brands.

• To ensure you use the proper amount of alcohol when making a mixed drink, use a shaker with measuring units on it.

• Pour the drinks yourself so you don't run out of alcohol.

• If you are displaying the alcohol on a top shelf, be sure the shelf is properly attached to the wall and are able to hold the weight of the bottles.