How to Stock a Home Bar

Video Transcript

"Now, I'm going to walk you through the basic bottles that you'll probably need to buy of alcohol, if you want to have a pretty basic home bar, and this is just to make basic drinks, and simple things like that, so first, these are crucial ingredients, the following few. Vodka, you definitely need a bottle of vodka. It makes a lot of drinks, so you're going to definitely need one of those. You're also going to need a bottle of gin, a bottle of rum, and a bottle of tequila. These four alcohols actually make up a lot of drinks, and especially to be combining the four of them. You make things, such as Grateful Deads or Long Island Iced Teas so it would be great, if you could have all four. In addition to that, another alcohol I'd recommend you get, is a Canadian Club or, which is just a blended whiskey, so any type of blended whiskey, so for example Seagrams 7, would do as well. Another thing that's kind of nice if you have in your bar, is some type of Scotch. I don't have a big one, but I do have a little one, and Scotch is just a whiskey that's made in Scotland. This one happens to be from Orkney so, and the next, I'm going to go into the cordials that you're probably going to want. You can really get by with having very few of these. You could just have this, if you wanted a very basic bar, because just with mixers alone, you can make a lot of drinks, with these five ingredients. However, if you're going to want to make some more challenging mixed drinks, it would be great if you could get some Triple Sec. This is definitely needed. This goes in Kamikazes. This goes in Long Island Ice Teas. This goes in almost everything that's going to have your four liquors, that I already spoke about, to make a large mixed drink. Also, we're going to have Amaretto. Again, this is great for making any drinks with milk, and a lot of other drinks. In the back here, we have Creme de Menthe, which is a mint flavored drink, or mint flavored. It's almost colorful. It kind of adds a little color to your bar. On that same note, it's great to have something, a thing of Chambord. If you don't have Chambord, if you want to go a little bit lower scale, you could get Razzmatazz, or Sloe Gin, or something that has the same flavor, but costs a little bit less. There's also Kahlua. Kahlua is really crucial, I'd say. If people drink Black Russians, which is a pretty common drink, and White Russians, they're going to want Kahlua, and there's a lot of other drinks I don't have here, but for example, you can get Creme de Cacao, which is a chocolate flavored liqueur, and really it's kind of up to whatever your taste is. If you like to drink brandy, you should get a bottle of brandy, or whatever types of drinks you, and you know your friends would like to drink. That's what you should purchase, and that would suffice for your home bar."