Thread: Home Bar: what's in yours?

What do you keep in your home bar? Here are my favs:
bourbon: bulliet frontier whisky, jim beam for mixing
Rum: Appleton Estate X/O, Mount Gay for mixing
Tequila: Sauza Commemorativo, Sauza gold for mixing
Scotch: It varies on the sipping end Dewars for mixing
Brandy: This varies a bunch here it is now though: Ural Alsbach, 2 Calvados's (always have some on hand), Cardinal Mendoza solera reserve, some home made pear brandy.
Vodka: Level, Vox and awe hell it all tastes the same to me...
Gin: Bombay Sapphire
various liquors: Frangelico, Tuaca (the BEST stuff for winter flasking ), Creme de cacao, creme de menthe.
Odd stuff: I have a bottle of Gusano De Oro Mescal have at your own risk.

I'm more of a wine guy, so am always well stocked with Oregon Pinot Noir and Bordeaux. I keep a few harder things around like 10 Cane Rum, Calvados, Hennessy XO Cognac, Woodford Bourbon, Grand Marnier, and Cachaca, which is like tequila but from Brazil and used to make caipirhinas.

I keep Crown Royal for Canadian wiskey, Balvenie for single malt Scotch, Maker's Mark for Bourbon, Captian Morgan for spiced rum, Hennessey for Cognac, Grand Mariner for my wife and Everclear sweeting my pipes.

Nothing too fancy. The BW picks her own tequila and mixers. I like to have a fairly decent gin around for martinis--last couple of bottles have been Bombay. The one booze thing I'm particular about, besides beer, is bourbon--I like to keep Knob Creek in stock.

Oddball stuff: a bottle of feni the BW brought me from a stall in Goa. Made from cashew fruits. Deceptively clear and innocent-looking. Think of tequila's outlaw cousin.

I'm a simple man.

A keg of Yuengling lager on tap at 35F and some clean pint glasses.

I have rums, Laphroaig and Oban, various burbons and whiskeys and even a few others but most of the time, a cold pint (with descent head) is my gig.


v/r

Allen

I have as follows in order of preference:
Glenmorangie 12 year old port wood finish
Macallan Cask Strength (when I really need a stiff drink)
Pierre Ferrand cognac
Bacardi rum
Stolichnaya vodka
Absinthe

Yet another "list of shame" post, much like the "list your shave creams/soaps/razors/aftershaves" that always come back to haunt me.
I have a little of everything.

Wines:
Duplin Hatteras Red (Muscadine wine)
Ravenswood CA Zinfandel
Barefoot Pinot Grigio
Barefoot Cabernet Sauvignon
Barefoot Merlot
Turning Leaf Cabernet Sauvignon
Charles (2-buck Chuck) Shaw Sauvignon Blanc
"Mossy Oak" Wild game (1 for fish, 1 for deer-haven't tasted it yet)

Brandy
Ascott XO
E&J XO

Vodka
Belvedere
Belvedere Pomarancza
Original
Blue Ice

Everclear

Malts
MacAllan 10 (Trader Joe's one)
Finlaggan (also 10, I think, but might be 15)

Blends
Dewar's 12

Gin
Bombay Sapphire

Rum
Sea Wynde
Gosling's Black Seal
Sailor Jerry
Pyrat

Tequila
Patron Silver
Patron Anejo
Patron Reposado

Milagro Anejo
Corazon Blanco

Bourbons/Tennessee Whiskeys
Evan Williams single barrel
George Dickel No. 12
Elijah Craig 12
Wild Turkey 101
Wild Turkey Rye
Jack Daniels single barrel

Liqueurs
Patron Coffee Liqeur
Gran Marnier

Mixer
Captain Morgain Parrot Bay
Cuervo Perfect Margarita mix

Beer
Killian's Red
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
Samuel Adams Cream Stout.


The inventory changes sometimes. Don't drink often so it mostly just gets bigger and bigger as I sample more and more things. Kindof like razors, come to think of it.....

John P.

I keep a few things for my drinking pleasure.

Johnnie Walker Black Label (can't afford Blue Label, yet)
Guinness (cans when I can buy them, stupid bottles when I cant)
Boddingtons Pub Ale
Leinenkugel's a completely new (to me) discovery that I find to be awesome. I currently can only find Sunset Wheat. I don't know how to describe it because I haven't really gotten into the terminology, but it has a really smooth flavor and finish that is strongly reminiscent of blueberries even though it has no blueberry flavoring artifical or otherwise that I can determine. Corriander? I dunno. I like it.

(The rest of the stuff in my bar is unmentioned because its not things I really drink, its for my wife or guests.)

Anyway, for me, life is too short to drink cheap beer.

First picture is my Bourbon and Rum bar with some of my favorites. The second is my Tequila bar. The barrels are for aging Tequila. The third is by empty Tequila bottle collection. There are over 50 empties. I haven't counted them in a while. I have tried over 100 Tequilas.

bj

i am but a simple man. pint of jack. nothing more, nothing less. works great for road trips(once i get there), not in the view of the kiddos(keeps SWMBO happy), tag-a-longs for parties, easy to replace.

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