Setting Up Your Bar

The Perfect Sip

In this episode we’re organizing our bar, getting ready for a cocktail session (some might call it party), and perfecting our cocktail making set up. Today is all about preparation so you can spend less time searching for your bar spoons and more time smiling maniacally at your guests as you shake their cocktails. What are you, a YouTuber?

Too Long, Didn’t Listen

(00:00) Opening: Bar Preparation

(01:14) The three key states of cocktail prep: Ready, set, me’s-in-what?

(02:29) You bar’s default state: dusty or disastorous?

(09:11) Preparing for a cocktail session

(14:23) Preparing for the next cocktail like a master chef

(23:36) Cocktail of the week: Brandy Flip

(30:01) Closing

Recipes

Brandy Flip

Ingredients:

• 2 oz brandy
• 1 oz simple syrup
• 1 whole egg
• Ground nutmeg (for garnish)
• In a shaker without ice, combine brandy, simple syrup, and the whole egg (no shell!). Shake for 10-15 seconds to emulsify. Add ice and shake again until well chilled (another 10-15 seconds). Double strain into a chilled cocktail glass and garnish with freshly grated nutmeg.

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Books & Equipment Links

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Books

We own and recommend these books:

The 12 Bottle Bar: Make Hundreds of Cocktails with Just Twelve Bottles by David Solmonson, Lesley Jacobs Solmonson

Liquid Intelligence: The Art and Science of the Perfect Cocktail by Dave Arnold

Imbibe! by David Wondrich

Cocktail Codex by Alex Day, Nick Fauchald, David Kaplan

Equipment

Products we own, like and use:

• Measuring tools
• OXO Good Grips Mini Angled Measuring Cup, 2 Oz capacity
• OXO Metal Angled Measuring Cup
• OXO SteeL Double Jigger
• Shakers
• This shaking set is sold as two separate items on Amazon, you will need both
• Cocktail Kingdom Koriko Small Weighted Shaking Tin
• Cocktail Kingdom Koriko Large Weighted Shaking Tin
• Mixing Glasses/Tins
• Viski Crystal Mixing Glass, 17 oz
• Pint glass: you don’t need a link for this do you?
• Peelers
• OXO Good Grips Y-Peeler
• Bar Spoons
• Crate & Barrel: Bar Spoon with Muddler
• Cork Screw / Bottle Opener
• True Truetap Double Hinged Waiters Corkscrew
• Bar Towels
• White Flour Sack Towels
• Glassware
• Highball
• Strauss 13-Oz. Cooler Glass
• Lowball
• Crescent 10-Oz. Double Old-Fashioned Glass
• Strauss 11-Oz. Double Old-Fashioned Glass
• Stemmed
• Mercer 10-Oz. Coupe Glass

Products we don’t own but would consider buying:

• Measuring Tools
• Cocktail Farmer Standard Jigger
• Piña Barware Bell/Leopold Style Stainless Steel Jigger 2oz. / 1oz.
• Piña Barware Slim/Japanese Style Stainless Steel Jigger 2oz. / 1oz.
• Shakers
• A Bar Above Weighted Craft Boston Shaker Set (Single set slightly less expensive than the Koriko)
• Houdini Boston Cocktail Shaker (a well rated pint glass set)
• Barfly Double Wall Diamond Lattice Mixing Tin
• Knives
• Cocktail Kingdom Buswell Paring Knife
• Victorinox 3.25 Inch Swiss Classic Paring Knife (Green - Black seems to be in high demand)
• Cutting Board
• Jelli Reversible Black Marble 14.5"x11" Cutting Board
• Bar Spoons
• Cocktail Kingdom Skull (We wouldn’t really buy this but it looks cool)
• A metal finger, not a spoon (I could resist linking to this one)
• Homestia Gothic Skull Bar Spoon (A cheaper skull)
• Viski Stainless Steel Weighted Barspoon
• Hawthorne Strainers
• Barfly Bar Strainer, Stainless Steel
• A Bar Above Hawthorne Strainer
• Julep Strainers
• Cocktail Kingdom Premium Julep Strainer

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