What You Need for Your Home Bar, According to Bartenders

[@carlhicksjr8401]

What you need for your home bar: 1. Two bottles of what you like. 2. A bottle each of medium shelf Scots Whiskey, Kentucky bourbon, and vodka for other people. 3. Ice. 4. Glasses. 5. The address of a bar down the street if they don't like what you've got.

[@tomasaldente2622]

I have picked up the strainers, boston shakers, jiggers at Goodwill for a buck each. I got glassware there as well. I bought martini glasses, and rocks glasses also for a buck each...

[@grapetonenatches186]

Good place to find Nick and Nora's and coupes.

[@JoshOnGuitar]

I always keep ginger beer around for Moscow mules. I like mixed drinks better so I'm a little heavier on the mixers. I have one whiskey and a couple mixers for it for when I'm feeling it. One mule mug, and some lowball glasses for the mixed drinks. I keep some beers in the fridge too. Simple for me!

[@raizumichin]

A lot of viewers needs to remember that this is a bunch of different bartenders giving their suggestions, you don't have to buy everything mentioned in this video. Chaim Dauermann gives the best description, you need some base spirits and some basic modifiers. That's really it.

[@havtor007]

The way the video is edited gives the impression you need every single thing each of them mentioned. Basicly it is just terrible editing going on here.

[@markw6031]

My home bar: Quality whiskey and a tumbler

[@pbindulgence]

+Mark Wilson Agreed. Going straight from the bottle is a line we will not cross. Unless the tumbler is dirty.

[@strayer99]

mark...you got it dude. wonder these hokeys are talking about.

[@michaelsieger9133]

Exactly

[@sodaking6858]

@@michaelsieger9133 hit Me up with a JagerBomb

[@grapetonenatches186]

Sounds boring.

[@Handy.BoBandy]

so buy literally everything...

[@zipp4everyone263]

No, just the basics. Gin, vodka, smokey and non smokey whiskey, rum (dark and light) and you'll have a good really basic setup that you can expand on. With those you have the base for a TON of drinks. You'll need some flavours and maybe sodas and perhaps some aditional alcoholic bottles for the more elaborate drinks thou.

[@straitpepperdiet]

Indulgence: one of everything and you should be good

[@b0ssbeerreviews83]

Home-bartender in Northern Canadá. If you’re area snows, Try making a Piña Colada or and frozen drinks with fresh snow!

[@ryacus]

Home bar: the next to cheapest 1.75L bottle of whatever I am drinking that week.

[@johntkearns]

Very good. Thanks. Bitters , Caipirinhas, great suggestions.

[@johnolmos8670]

Anything to make your favorite cocktail. I like Gin and Rum so I have the essentials to run a good tiki program as well as classic gin cocktails

[@rustybearden1800]

Prowl your local Goodwill/Miracle Hill/Salvation Army centers regularly - you'll find glassware of every conceivable shape and size including cocktail pitchers, shaker sets, strainers, stirring spoons, muddlers, etc for pennies - they break or chip? Who cares, you paid pennies for them - toss them and go buy more. You can put together a stylish, vintage bar for literally nothing and you can spend the money that you save on quality spirits. You'll need a good quality gin, vodka, bourbon, scotch/whiskey, white tequila, white rum, sweet and dry vermouth, bitters, a small, good quality pairing knife, a peeler/zester, jigger measures, a small cutting board, fresh citrus, olives, pickled/brined onions and high quality cocktail cherries. Buy mixers (and liquor)in small(er)bottles (they last longer and mixers will retain their bubbles better.) With this basic set up you can make literally thousands of classic cocktails - don't forget a good, pocket sized cocktail guide. This sounds like a lot of stuff but most of it is relatively inexpensive compared to buying drinks in a bar. Cheers!

[@MayureshGaikwadtube]

1 bottle each of Chivas Regal, Bulleit bourbon, Absolut, Appleton Special Rum, 12 cans of soda and a refrigerator that can dispense ice. Then, on the day you host a party, buy some mixing ingredients.

[@bavithrad2796]

I have all of those! Yay!!! Stocked up at home.

[@Huntrguy102]

What you need for you home bar. Goes on to literally explain a full real bar.

[@raizumichin]

Yeah, because there's a dozen different people who gives a dozen different suggestions.

[@rustybearden1800]

If you're going to work on your car or you house, you need a basic set of tools and supplies - a bar is no different

[@marc2322]

My home bar includes as listed: Lagavulin

[@moderatedoomer2945]

Not a bartender but do have a great home bar. Stock up on liquors, liqueurs, simple syrup, bitters, glass wear and other equipment. Citrus, herbs, fruit and even vermouth should be bought as needed.

[@magicsteve5523]

I would advise anyone to have basic vodka, whisky and gin around but from that style the bar around whatever drinks you like.

[@ayyrazza]

I have everything they said in my home bar!

[@lenalovesrats]

What you need for your home bar: What you actually enjoy drinking

[@booxwee3804]

What I need in my home bar: Vodka, Coffe Liqueur and heavy creme.

[@MalakianM2S]

And a rug that ties the room together, amirite?

[@booxwee3804]

@@MalakianM2S Yes ofcourse!

[@grapetonenatches186]

Yeah, well that's just like your opinion man.

[@booxwee3804]

@@grapetonenatches186 The dude abides

[@aesop2020]

Sweet thanks. On my way get literally all of that shit and I will then, by definition have a pretty okay home bar.

[@richardleaneagh4274]

what can you substitute for gin allergies

[@grapetonenatches186]

A different gin.

[@hansgruber1686]

Tonic and a gin....done.

[@ghoward912]

Damn right!

[@grapetonenatches186]

No lemon?

[@jeffdeal4681]

dat 5 bladed aperture bokeh. it's amateurish, but nobody notices it but me :P

[@pbindulgence]

The new season we just shot will have 8...

[@HubrisInc]

elitism much, bud?

[@domuuuuu]

Well now that you mention it, I see it. Thanks.

[@K0S0s]

I can appreciate a good 2.8

[@WhiskyTanuki]

My home bar that I started 3 months ago, I mainly drink single malts, but after reading this manga called "Bartender" (Just google Bartender Manga), I was hooked on making cocktails, Japanese bartender seem much more serious than western ones from my experience going to Japanese bars in Hong Kong and Tokyo.imgur.com/a/AoNcu

[@QuickQuips]

BAR-TIMES is a KZbin channel full of them.

[@zipp4everyone263]

I agree. I've seen pure works of art at Japanese bars. Things i've never seen anywhere else outside of Micheline restaurants.

[@amandac5307]

Ice molds, really?

[@DaxTheOtter]

i think you should cash out on equipment and buy spirits/modifiers and make syrups for what youre gonna be making. you dont need to buy ten bottles, all the bitters and make all the things you could ever possibly need for every drink in existence. kinda like asking what foods you need to buy for your home kitchen, prepare for what youre gonna be making. your home bar doesnt need to function like a real bar with a menu of 20+ drinks, just tell whoever is coming over youre gonna be making daquiries or bees knees or whatever and thats it.

[@grapetonenatches186]

Our you could have a better bar than the bars.

[@MassiveLore]

I think playboy is finally making the content that bros deserve !

[@kevin1049]

What you need for a home bar... whatever the fuck you want.

[@pullinslack5600]

I like how they said just get small bottles to last long unless you’re drinking a lot, like the people at home bars are not ones that are going to drink a lot

[@heyalejandro175]

No.! Lime juice +simple syrup (sugary water) + liquor & (maybe) juice = 99% of bartending. I sell $20 drinks in Miami

[@grapetonenatches186]

Good luck making a Brandy Alexander with that.

[@zipp4everyone263]

Why a rye or Burbon instead of a proper Singel malt?

[@ShooterSF]

I'm assuming, considering the mention of shakers, strainers bitters etc., they're focusing on a home cocktail bar. Which you don't want to waste sipping whisk(e)y in.

[@grapetonenatches186]

I guess they don't like Rob Roys.

[@kevinfager.]

All you really need is the right kinda friends.

[@grapetonenatches186]

"You said come to my bar and hang out but there is nothing down here but spider webs!?" "You guys are my bar."

[@SanskarWagley]

No tequila?

[@grapetonenatches186]

No, the margaritas come out of the machine in the corner.

[@TheDarwiniser]

Good whiskey, either a rye or a bourbon??? huh?? Is that all the choice?? Scotland?? Hello??

[@grapetonenatches186]

That's whisky, not whiskey.

[@monnikoira1262]

Beer and vodka.

[@robertocalderonabogado1427]

Be the king of bartenders with this list: SPIRITS: Plantation white and dark rums, Martin Miller´s Gin (Best for all kind of gin based cocktails), The famous Grouse Scotch Whisky (Best for cocktails), Glenmorangie La Santa and Quinta Ruban Scotch whiskies (great single malt whiskies to drink neat), Elijah Craig bourbon Whiskey, Tito´s Vodka, Pisco Acholado (mix of aromatic and non aromatic grapes), Martell VSOP Cognac, Cachaca and Vida Mezcal. LIQUEURS: Cointreau orange liqueur, Campari, Aperol, Kahlúa, Amaretto Di Sarono. WINES AND FORTIFIED WINES: Carpano Antica Formula vermouth (Best for Negroni), Carpano Dry vermouth (Great for martini), Malbec or Merlot red wines, Prosecco and champagne. MIXERS AND COMPLEMENTS: Ginger Beer, ginger Ale, tonic Water, soda water, Angostura aromatic bitters, Angostura orange bitters, Peychaud Bitters, milk cream, home made simple syrup (one cup of water and one cup of white sugar), lemons and oranges. TOOLS: Julep strainer, fine mesh strainer, Hawthrone strainer, Boston shaker, mixing glass, bar spoon, cocktail muddler, three prongger ice picker, corkscrew wine opener, brulée torch, spirit pourers, citrus press, hand towel, two sided jigger of one and two onces, a good knife and a cutting board. BASIC GLASSWARE: Old fashion, High ball, martini glasses. Red wine, champagne, cognac (only 3) and Chardonay glasses (great for gin tonics and tiki cocktails in a more refined presentation, like the Dark n´Stormy).

[@alflurin]

I only have Whisky... some Islay single malts, a few blended malts and always a cheap blended VAT69 for cooking uses and whisky based drinks. I'm lying, I've got a Gin bottle that my sister-in-law and my brother offered me on Christmas. And of course some kraft beer (national and import) and some good apple cider (Magners hits the mark for me). By the way, in my house it is absolutely forbidden to put rocks on whisky unless it is under 10€. A drop of mineral water, sure! Ice, big no no!

[@grapetonenatches186]

Old Fashioned!? Not in my house!

[@willisverynice]

This video should be called "how to become an alcoholic"

[@fifalafida]

I fully disagree with this. There's a whole world's difference between enjoying alcohol and being an alcoholic. As long as you aren't dependent on it, or using it just to get drunk, there is nothing wrong with having a few drinks

[@umiluv]

willisverynice - I have a full bar in my home. Bitters; glassware; multiple scotches, gins, vodka; absinthe, rum, brandy, liqueurs, vermouth; tonic water, club soda, beer, wine, sake, soju, etc. All that and my husband and I rarely drink. We just enjoy being able to make/have a drink whenever we fancy it. I think I drink like once a quarter and it's almost always with a meal. I also use the alcohol mostly for cooking - beer for chilis and stews, wine for pastas, liqueurs for French toast. Just because you have a full bar doesn't mean you're an alcoholic. We enjoy collecting various alcohols and trying them and also entertaining guests with booze if they would like some.

[@alpeggio]

An alcoholic obviously wouldn't bother making cocktails or fancy drinks he would just buy the cheapest booze he could find and drink that!

[@boogiedownforever]

I cant look at Ivy's mouth when she speaks

[@lanhikari87]

Way too dis organized. Didnt get anything out of it

[@RumbleFish69]

Man, this video is all over the place and not very helpful. I can imagine someone who needs help, watching this and coming out confused. Here's an idea, take one person, preferably the one with the most experience and most knowledge, and interview that one person! What is being presented here is a bunch of different opinions on one subject! That's like having a bunch of chefs explaining how to make eggs! Sure, they will all show you how to make eggs but their idea of making eggs will all be different, which in the end, is not very helpful at all.

[@gregorysmith6102]

So funny

[@traildoggy]

Way too complicated. I just have a bong instead.

[@saltysoysauce954]

Not as tasty!

[@brentburgess5218]

Organize this babbling into useful information please

[@justdie9055]

Why am was i recomended this i hate clubs bars and alcohol

[@robertcostello4921]

What i need in my home bar is a cash resister because not giving away those drinks for free.

[@grapetonenatches186]

A different video.

[@StephenCameron]

Over edited.

[@austinschlatter4726]

............................. using a mason jar, i'm wanting to be sorry, but stirring a barspoon in a mason jar vs a pint glass... why am i explaining this. i've lost all confidence in these people. WTF seriously? I'm not sorry here. learn to bartend. that straight pisses me off.

[@ipodhty]

I think she was more saying for shaking. and it might not be as fast but you can stirr stuff in a Mason jar, and at home speed is less of a concern