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5 Versatile Spirits to Stock Your Bar

There's no need to have every trendy bottle of liquor on hand to make perfectly satisfying cocktails. Keep your bar stocked with these time-honored classics and you'll always be prepared for invited and surprise guests.

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5 Versatile Spirits to Stock Your Bar

There's no need to have every trendy bottle of liquor on hand to make perfectly satisfying cocktails. Keep your bar stocked with these time-honored classics and you'll always be prepared for invited and surprise guests.

About Tom Schlesinger-Guidelli

Tom is a young but tremendously experienced and innovative master of the bar. Not only does he love to create amazing drinks, but he also loves to tinker in the kitchen to make his own bitters, ginger beers and more. He started young, working at his uncle Chris Schlesinger's restaurant, the Back Eddy. He received his most intense training from the talented mixologists at Eastern Standard in Boston where he got quite a few cocktail hours under his belt.

Recipe

Ingredients

5 Essential Spirits for the Home Bar (Tom Schlesinger-Guidelli's Recommendations)

  1. Gin (Plymouth, Beefeater, Bombay or London Dry)

  2. Spicy Rye (Rittenhouse 100-proof)

  3. Benedictine Liqueur

  4. Chartreuse Liqueur

  5. Vermouth (Martini & Rossi)

The Alaska Cocktail - Recommended Glass:  Cocktail Glass

  • 2¼ oz gin
  • ¾ oz Yellow Chartreuse
  • 2 dashes orange bitters
  • lemon twist for garnish

The Colleen Bawn Cocktail - Recommended Glass: Coupe Glass

  • 1 oz rye (Rittenhouse 100 Rye Whiskey)
  • 1 oz Yellow Chartreuse
  • 1 oz Benedictine
  • 1 egg

How-to

The Alaska Cocktail

  1. Stir all ingredients and strain into a cocktail glass
  2. Add a  lemon twist garnish
The Colleen Bawn Cocktail
  1. Hard shake ingredients and strain into a coupe glass
  2. To with grated nutmeg

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