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25 Essential Bar Accessories: 15 - 20
In addition to the trend for muddled drinks, it is also quite popular to garnish drinks. With your own condiment bin, you will have ready access to the cherries, limes, orange slices, or lemon wedges you need to make your drinks look perfect during parties and gatheringsKeeping fruits cool, fresh, and separated is easiest in a professional condiment bin. The condiment bin also allows you to prepare garnishes in advance and keep them efficiently until you are ready to use them at the bar.
While you can set garnishes out in bowls, having a condiment bin communicates to guests that you are taking your bar tending duties seriously and also looking out for the cleanliness and freshness of what you serve.
Tool #12: Pourer
Speed pours are impressive, but so are controlled pouring solutions for wines and other fine liquors or mixers.
You want to be able to pour efficiently, without needing to open and close bottles or formally decant wines.
Pourers provide two main benefits. They control the flow of the liquid, and they also protect it from oxygen. This helps you get long term use from liquors and mixers, as well as a keep a longer lifespan open for your wines.
Tool #13: Ice bucket
While some drinks don’t allow ice, many others are served on the rocks. A steady stock of ice cubes is therefore necessary for any effective home bar.
Running back and forth to the kitchen for ice takes the fun out of bartending. Dripping bags of store-bought ice are also an unsightly mess and slippery hazard. Your ice bucket solves both problems.
You’ll be able to readily access the ice cubes that you need for your drinks, as well as cut down on your personal fatigue level when hosting since you won’t need to make so many kitchen runs. Also, buckets look much better than coolers or dripping bags of ice!
Tool #14: Ice tongs
Getting those few cubes that you need for drinks on the rocks or to drop into a shaker is much easier with a set of solid tongs.
Grabbing ice cubes by hand is unsanitary, and it isn’t always feasible to use the glass as a scoop. Tongs bring an easy solution to the table.
Tongs are elegant and sanitary. Guests will appreciate that you have them available!
Tool #15: Wine and/or Champagne Chiller
Chilling wine or keeping champagne on ice is important for preserving taste and ensuring a pleasant drinking experience. Customized chillers can hold multiple bottles or provide a tight, cold sleeve for just one.
Your ice bucket is for ice being consumed, so you need a separate chilling solution for your wines and champagnes. With a chiller, you have the solution you need in a form guests respect.
Designated chillers help keep guests from leaving bottles out on the table or bar top to get warm. They also provide visual class to your bar area and indicate that you both know and take serving temperatures seriously.
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