/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.6614051]

I want to build up a solid assortment of alcohol. I plan to have a number of parties with reasonably adult people, meaning I want to avoid shit like Keystone Light or PBR.

What do you think of this?
- Mid-tier Rum, Gin, Tequila, and Vodka
- Everclear (personally love this shit)
- Assorted decent beers like Dogfish head, etc.

Should I get a decanter or anything?

[Grenache Blanc No.6614092]

>>6614051
>- Everclear (personally love this shit)
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What was the question? Should you buy a decanter?
You can probably wait until you figure out what they're used for.
What do I think of your list?
You probably shouldn't "store" beer for future parties. Also, you're likely under 23, so no one's expecting much from you. Learn how to make a couple of easy but cool cocktails with one liquor vs buying an arbitrary collection. Master one, and then expand.

[Anonymous No.6614103]

A decanter would be low priority. Start with a set of basic bar ware: pint glasses, wine glasses, whiskey glasses. Ice bucket, tongs, and shaker if you plan on cocktails. Corkscrew/ bottle opener. Add a mid-tier bourbon and an Irish whiskey and a few common mixers.

[Anonymous No.6614558]

>>6614051
i got a keg bar in my garage... get a different keg of beer each month.. round 80 for 1/4 a keg, last me all month. plus you can change it up each month

[Anonymous No.6614585]

>>6614051
>Adult people

pffffffft haha yeah right

[Anonymous No.6614625]

A few points:

-you cannot have a bar without whisky, it is probably the most popular spirit
-no adult person is going to drink everclear
-I would add one or two liqueurs
-you need wine too
-I would stick to one beer, probably a euro macrobrew, that way everyone will drink it

[Anonymous No.6616105]

>>6614051
You forget a sour bourbon and a whiskey, other than if you prepare to be able to properly mix drinks you'll need:
Tonic water
Unflavoured soda water
Lemonade
Cola
Limes
Lemons
Mint
Sugar
Honey
Peach schnapps
Baileys
Cream
Kahlua
Orange juice
Apple liqueur
Vermouth
Gin

With that you'll be able to mix most cocktails and show off to all your fancy middle class friends.

[Anonymous No.6616117]

Also for parties try to get some of each type of beer and wine.
Dessert white
Dry white
Rose
Red
Pils
Vienna lager
Stout
Pale ale
IPA
Maybe a witbeir if you want to impress.
Rauchbeir and lambic for bonus points.

[Anonymous No.6616121]

Remember the golden rule, the Alkaline trio said it best "never had a drink that I didn't like".

[Anonymous No.6617669]

Bumping for interest

[Anonymous No.6617704]

>>6614051
I try to have different tiers for different people/occasion.
Right now if you come at my house you'll have a few choices:

Label 5, Walker Red, Auchentoshan
Gordon's, Tanqueray, Hendrick's, Tanqueray N°10
Local white rhum
Belvédère
Martini Bianco, Martini Dry
Decent white and red wines from Chile, South Africa
Good to great white and red wines from France
Fancy flavored rosé wines (grapefruit, raspberry)
Cheap local beers, Desperados, Heineken, Leffe Blonde, Leffe Radieuse
Array of mixers and juices
A filtering, chilling fountain plugged to the tap water outlet.
Filtered water ice cubes

Except for special occasions/parties I don't keep fresh ingredients such as mint, fresh fruits and the like, I never get to use them before they go bad.

[Anonymous No.6617728]

White and dark Rum, bourbon, irish whisky, gin, vodka, orange liqueur, sweet and dry vermouth, red and white wine, seltzer, tonic, coke/pepsi, orange and cranberry juice, lemons and limes. These are a must.

Optional are scotch, tequila and whatever else you can think of.

[Anonymous No.6617746]

>>6617728
>go to any bar anywhere
>order a gin and tonic
>they hand you a gin and seltzer

It blows my fucking mind.

[Anonymous No.6617751]

>>6614625
Where do you live that Whiskey is the most popular spirit? I live in the rural south and even here people drink more vodka than they do Whiskey.

[Anonymous No.6617769]

>>6617746
Never happened to me, I would get the fuck out.

I was served a black russian with coke in it once tho. Shit was disgusting. It seems it does exist in some books/recipes but it's a waste imo.

[Anonymous No.6617805]

>>6614051

if you are making cocktails for other folks, invest in a mini fridge, and buy bags of ice from a store: they have big freezers of them on the cashier-side walls.

you need, at minimum:
>bottle of tequila
>bottle of whiskey
>bottle of dark rum
>bottle of white rum
>2 bottles of vodka (one good and one meh brand)
>maybe some gin
>triple sec (or grand mariner)
>optional coffee/mint/vanilla/melon liquors

stock your (mini) fridge with:
>tomato juice
>pineapple juice
>lemon juice
>lime juice
>cocktail bitters
>novelty shit like cocktail onions, olives, Marciano cherries, lime/lemon wedges, candies, chili peppers, etc for garnishes
>fill the rest of the remaining space with beer

It really depends on what you personally like, what you intend to to serve or what you want to experiment with.

for personal drinks, I like blood marys, long islands, white russians, drinks that have a lot of standard ingredients.

for parties, make batch drinks with a lot of booze, that are easy to make. A blender helps with margaritas, daquairis, pina coladas, drinks with 2-4 ingredients tops

If you have a fully stocked bar, you can try making some of those fancy drinks, which usually require really odd ingredients: try mohitos with mint and a muddle, sazaracs with absinthe, moscow/irish mules with ginger beer

if you are thinking beers: mini fridge is a good investment: I think they around 100~200 bucks. If you have a lot of friends (which you don't because you are on 4chan) you could consider a tap: it's a C02 system and some lines that will run a few hundred bucks and requires cleaning and maintenance; they get moldy if you don't clean them.

Happy drunkin'

[Anonymous No.6617815]

>>6617769
It happened at a fucking club in London no less, and I though brits were the fucking experts on tonic. It might have just been a shit bartender though. It was one of those places that caters to 20 something spray tan douches drinking vk blue.

[Anonymous No.6617823]

http://12bottlebar.com/bottles/

[Anonymous No.6617853]

>>6617805
>buying bags of ice

here, i got something for you. pic related

[Anonymous No.6617856]

>>6617853
Not him but when you have a party and no chest freezer, it may be fucking hard to make your own.
I too purchase bags of ice in this occasion.
Watcha gonna do about it, tough boi?

[Anonymous No.6617857]

>>6617853
i think those are plantains. plantains are a pain in a 90 degree angle of your anus to peel sometimes.

[Anonymous No.6618062]

>>6617856
>when you have a party

[Anonymous No.6618186]

op do you actually want a full bar or are you just pretending to have a full bar to impress someone in particular?
are you trying to bartend or what?

[Anonymous No.6618204]

>>6617857
Nah, those really are bananas.

[Anonymous No.6618373]

>>6618062
Yes, some peoples on this board, unlike you, sometimes host parties of other human beings.

[Anonymous No.6619845]

>using ice trays
>using that tiny bucket from your ice machine that will serve about 12 drinks total
>using ice that has strange odors from your freezer
>not spending $1.50 on clean, fresh ice so your drinks don't taste like refrigerant
>being a faggot