A Few Tools Every Bartender Must Own

Mixology can be a rewarding hobby. It allows for creative expression, encourages ingenuity, and also helps encourage you to forget everything you’ve learned or discovered with a solid testing of your recent creations. !

!While you might consider yourself a cocktail wizard or something of a Tom Cruise in Cocktail, his best flick yet, let’s make sure you have these tools before you speak too soon…!!Pour Spouts!!Do you think Tom Cruise would be able to do all his jumping, flipping, and behind the back catches if it weren’t for having a little accuracy insurance? That is exactly what these thingamabobbers offer: a precise pour. Why waste time and money by missing the glass or shaker?!!If you’re a real expert you’ll know that the most important things are accuracy and consistency. If someone loves your drink, you’ll want to know exactly how to replicate it, no? If they hate it, you’ll want to know what you did that time for future reference, would you not? I think so. Buy or !make yourself a Pour Spout.!!A Jigger!!Ecoline Windows, JiggerAgain pointing to accuracy and consistency, a jigger will help you (yes just like a shot glass) measure out the volume of alcohol you’re adding into your famous drink. Even if you plan to get your party sauced, you should know how much your unloading on them for a variety of reasons, particularly the clean up tomorrow, even if its not your house.!!Regardless, when you’re making more top-tier drinks, you’ll have specific

A Few Tools Every Bartender Must Own

requirements such as a half shot of XYZ or a three quarter ounce dash of ABC. Let’s just say its easier to come up with and recreate the correct ratios when you measure this out exactly, rather than eyeball it. !!If you make a good drink for someone, you may get another client asking for another. Have some consistency for that. Your patrons or guests will admire your attention to detail.