Home bar

It is very convenient for those who like to relaxand spend an evening at the company "Margarita" or with a glass of delicious cognac. The home bar will be very liked by your friends, who will come more often and sit up longer. It is clear, the bar has a lot of alcoholic goodies, from which you can cook excellent cocktails.

It is worth considering that a home bar is an expensive treat. You need to start from the cabinet, which will contain bottles of drinks. You can choose it in any furniture store or order online on a specific site. If the kitchen has a lot of space, then you can install bar rack, chairs on high legs, a small freezer or an ice generator. There are different types of bar cabinets, and their choice depends on your preferences and interior features.

If the cabinet for the bar is selected and installed, you canbegin to fill it. To become a real bartender, you need to stock up special bartender "tricks". List of necessary devices that will improve the home bar:

Shaker for mixing alcoholic ingredients and ice. There are glass, metal and plastic. It is better to choose metal - they are durable and very comfortable. Shakers from three parts - cobblers, from two parts - bostons.

Glass-mixer It will be necessary when many guests come to you. As such a glass, you can use the bottom of the cobbler. You can complete the home bar without this glass.

Strainer It is used to separate large ice fromtransfusion of the finished cocktail into a glass. More practical and functional is the havtor-strainer, which is equipped with a spring on the edge and ears for a firm fixation on the glass.

Jigger Is a dimensional vessel for a certain volume. Very convenient are jiggers, which have on the inner surface a scale. It is better to buy jigs with a rounded rim because they do not leak. A dimensional plastic cup for large volumes is also useful.

Barmen spoon. It differs from its relatives in a longhandle, twisted screw. The usefulness of a bar spoon is that it can be used to make layered cocktails, and with the help of a tip (a madler or a tablet) you can easily stretch the fruit. Your home bar simply can not function without it.

Bartender knife - Sharp, light, comfortable. It will be useful in the process of making ornaments for drinks and slicing citrus fruits.

Geyser - nozzle on the neck of the bottle, which prevents uneven pouring out of the liquid.

Citrus juicer - very easy to use. When designing a home bar, you should decide: it is more convenient to use a hand-operated juicer or a cumbersome mechanical one. If there are a lot of places, it is easier to buy a mechanical one, which is useful in the household.

Also needed tongs and ice shovel, forms or sachets for its preparation. If the budget allows, you can purchase an ice generator, which makes crystal-clear cubes.

These are the most popular devices, without which the home bar will look lean and unprofessional.

Next - dishes for the bar. The basic glasses, which must be available:

1. A pile (shot) - for giving strong alcoholic drinks.



2. Old fashion (rox) - pour whiskey, mix-based drinks on whiskey basis.



3. Haybol (collins) - for long drinks, soft drinks and soft drinks.



4. A martini glass - for serving chilled cocktails without ice.



5. Champagne flute - served sparkling wines and cocktails based on them.



6. Wine glass - pour red and white wines.



7. Margarita - for the cocktail of the same name.



8. Beer glasses - for beer and cocktails with beer.

Now you should start choosing the covenantbottles that will fill your home bar. The number of bottles and the variety of types of alcohol depends on how often you consume alcohol, and on your taste preferences. If you want to experiment with cocktails, then buy the following drinks: tincture "Angostura", rum "Bacardi", whiskey "Jack Daniels", tequila "Olmeca", vodka "Absolut", gin "Gordon" s, liqueur "Cointreau".

Based on these liquids can be easily prepared ten cocktails: "Appletini", "Brass Monkey", "Cosmopolitan", "Cuba Libre, Long Island, Manhattan, Margarita, Old Fashioned, Vesper, White Lady. As alcoholic supplements for cocktails, you need to buy "Calvados", an aperitif "Little Blank" and red vermouth. Also, additional ingredients for these cocktails are lime, lemon, orange, cranberry and cola.

Buy, learn, do. It is advisable to watch the video lessons and learn the recipes of the above cocktails, because they are popular, and some of them have become just a classic of bar art. When you build a home bar, do not forget to call your friends, as they are true connoisseurs of free alcohol.