What do I need for a good home bar?

I want to invest about $150 in barware and liquor. What would you recommend? I already have tequila, vodka, rum, and a couple bottles of wine. I don't have any barware except for plenty of glasses and bottle openers. I'd like to have some stuff the ladies would like too, but I don't know how to make many drinks. Recommendations?What do I need for a good home bar?
You will need a Boston Shaker, which is two metal cups, of different sizes usually 16 and 24 oz $10 or less together I paid $3.50 and $4.90 respectively, highball glasses, and stemmed (martini) glasses, a jigger/pony combo measure $5 or so, I paid $4 , a muddler to crush fresh ingredients I paid $2.20 for two, a squeeze bottle for simple syrup I paid $1.60.



A citrus press makes things easier.



Look up the drinks you want to make and stock up on the ingredients necessary.



Southern Comfort is not a Bourbon, but it's more popular with the ladies.



Try to use fresh ingredients whenever possible, most mixers suck.



You'll need Ice, and sugar to make simple syrup with.
I would recommend ingredients for a cosmopolitan!!

Nice drink for all, serve in a nice wide rimmed (wine) glass.

Everybody loves them! Can I come over??What do I need for a good home bar?
Ok barware buy at Tuesday morning good prices and good product. second stop a Crate%26amp; Barrel store or CB2 good product.

liquor a good slection say try Bev Mo! good prices one bottle of each Bourbon(Jack Daniels or Southern comfort), Vodka(Smirnoff),Rum (Capt. morgan or bacardi), Mixers like mojohito, mudslide, bloody mary mix. a ready made punch of sunrise in cooler(thermos) sliced oranges,lemons,limes and candy cherries sprite and orange juice.

cranbeery mix or rasberry too and a frig with Jello-shots to get thing started..
this idea is totally free



an excellent addition to your mini would be a row of table-top drink menues from Chilie's, Red Lobsters, TGIF, Hard Rock, Joes Crabshack, Applebees, Carrabbas, Olive Garden, Hooters, etc.



what i do is, i tell them its my buddies birthday and that this is his favorite place to eat. and i ask them if i can have the drink menue on display at the table. if he/she hesitates, i offer to purchace it, and at this point i usually score one. I have one from each of the places mentioned above all placed in a row on my mini. The ladies love it, and it usually comes with all the ingredients under the pictures, so you can make all of the drinks.



Rock on!What do I need for a good home bar?
Well, if you are going to be entertaining the ladies, I would go with a few different flavored vodkas. Three olives is a great brand and offers lots of flavors. Grape and cherry I think are the best. Also make sure to have mixers. Cranberry juice and tonic are a must to mix with these vodkas. Definitely get some Bailey's Irish Cream and Kahlua. These you can drink on ice or mix them together.

If you are a shot kind of person, get some Jager. If you don't like it strait, then mix it with bailey's-sounds wierd, but it is quite tasty!

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