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Cocktail hour - making my own top shelf stuff

April 9th, 2009 at 03:25 am

At $7-$12 for a cocktail plus $2 tip it gets pricey. To have 3 cocktails each for 2 ppl... would be more than I am willing to pay.

So I have a fully stocked bar, like some people have a fully stocked pantry.

Now I can make in my house 3 of my favorite drinks:

1. Top shelf margarita (contreau, fresh squeezed lime juice and patron tequila)

2. Amaretto sour - amaretto, fresh squeezed lemon juice, bitters, bar cherries and ice.

3. Long Island ice tea - vodka, tequila, rum,
gin, grand marnier, fresh lemon and lime juice,
Coca-Cola, ice

I have given up Pina-Colada because it is too high in calories.

This stuff would cost a lot more in a bar - and in many bars they don't use freshly squeezed juice (and that is my primary source of vitamin C) Smile))

So I get best ingredients (I don't like bottle mixes such as sweet and sour - in my opinion they are way too sweet)

We also have most of these things at work and have a cocktail after work hours most Fridays when things are not in the emergency mode.

I will be inviting more people for drinks to our apartment - another up side is that no one needs to drive anywhere until sober - they could just crash on the couch.

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4 Responses to “Cocktail hour - making my own top shelf stuff”

  1. baselle Says:
    April 9th, 2009 at 05:07 am 1239253643
    1239253643

    Fun! I still have my ice-cold bottle of gin in the freezer, along with a little flask of vermouth in the cupboard. Martinis!
    And bar tending is a useful recession skill.

  2. whitestripe Says:
    April 9th, 2009 at 07:32 am 1239262368
    1239262368

    we are slowly working on ours too. so far we have five different varieties of rum, absynthe, tequila, limoncello, midori, vodka, gin, chambord and some others which i can't recall right now... hmmm... Smile

  3. ceejay74 Says:
    April 9th, 2009 at 04:46 pm 1239295611
    1239295611

    Fantastic idea.

    One of my family's first moves to cut down spending, when we were just starting to turn our financial lives around, was to buy some nice bottles of liquor and start hosting biweekly Friday happy hours at our condo. Lazy, informal affairs with a couple of snacks, music playing, chairs set up on the balcony. People didn't have to RSVP; just show up if they felt like it. As a result, some days we'd have two friends over, others we'd have 15 or 20.

    It was soo much cheaper for us, and free for our guests, and fun to boot. We're planning to restart this as soon as the long Minnesota winter starts to loosen its grip!

  4. thriftorama Says:
    April 9th, 2009 at 09:16 pm 1239311779
    1239311779

    I have a fully stocked bar at home too.

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