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When buying products to make drinks and stock a home bar it is important to get ingredients that can be used in many different drinks and tick as many boxes as possible. It can be expensive ti get everything at once but the options become so much more. I would avoid getting super cheap "off brand" but entry level branded spirits are often fine.
Vodka, Gin, rum are a must, with tequila and cognac as options. A triple sec (orange liqueur), and an apricot liqueur. Also good to have sweet and dry vermouth (shelf life is not huge on these though, and should be in the fridge). I would also look at angostura bitters and peychaud bitters, maybe an orange bitters.
Alongside these alcohol products I would make myself a sugar syrup (2 parts sugar to one part water, reduced until dissolved) you can use this same process to create grenadine and orgeat syrup. Then just juices, lemon/lime as needed and any carton juices needed.
I would also recommend downloading the app "perfect drink" " you can input all the products you have into your cabinet in app and it will tell you what you can make.
Of course this list is quite large to buy all at once but with all these ingredients you will be able to make a vast amount of drinks, and the more diverse product selection you have it is then more about replacing a few things than having to buy lots every time.
Manhattans Classic and Blue Collar.
Classic Manhattan Ingredients
Blue Collar Manhattan Ingredient
mixing steps for either
Oh and finish up the evening with one or two fingers of Lagavulin 16, which does in-fact work like a depth charge.
make your life easy... Download the Perfect Drink app. and for extra maybe buy the scale. i use the in cabinet feature to keep track of my drinks and what i can make.
There are no pay-walled recipe in Perfect Drink. You must be thinking of a different app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pureimagination.pd_android&hl=en