A few items are required to make cocktails and that should be your main concern when creating your own home bar. You’ll find some of these tools readily available in your kitchen, while others, like glass strainers, can be bought cheaply on the market.

Let’s consider these one by one:

shakers

A mix of good cocktail shakers includes classic and Boston shakers. The latter is a 16-ounce shaker glass and a large bar tin with a flat bottom. Professional bartenders use it a lot with the help of strainers.

jiggers

A jigger is a metal device with a cone at each end. The largest cone measures 60ml while the smallest 30ml or approximately one ounce. Skilled bartenders don’t use jiggers; instead, make use of your technique and years of experience. However, in a home bar, jiggers are a must.

colanders

Drinks that are shaken and stirred with a lot of ice need a strainer to separate the ice, herbs, and other ingredients from the liquid.

Two types are popular: Hawthorne strainer and Julep strainer. The first has a flat-top perforated device with a continuous coil wound along the perimeter that helps hold the filter in position. The latter is perforated and is usually made of stainless steel.

glass rinsers

This is an item that someone can say is a luxury. Frankly, it’s not. Glass rinsers are quite popular in Europe, but are catching on in the United States and Canada.

These gadgets work in a simple way. You turn a glass upside down before filling it; hold it over a rinser, glass rim down. Water automatically gushes out, rinsing the glass of any residue or soap scum that hasn’t been cleaned.

The main advantage of rinsing is that it pours better. Experts say that beer is best poured into a damp glass.

It’s no wonder bartenders do a final rinse before filling the beer.

As one customer noted, “Glass rinsers look great in a bar not too far behind the fancy beer towers.”

Building a home bar, however easy, requires foresight and food flair, as bars fill up with ever-changing inventory. Also, guzzlers have become a fashionable lot. They are up to date on the things you serve.

So you need to be up to the task of serving extravagantly. Even if he is not as good as an expert bartender, he should know the basics of what he is serving. Even a high-end beer needs a proper clean glass that has been washed with glass rinsers.

You may not have a wide variety of glassware styles, but any you do have should be used appropriately. Before serving, make sure there are no lipstick, oil and detergent marks.

Your guests naturally would not like to see a stained glass window with soap bubbles trapped inside the glass.

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