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      <image:title>Home Bar Equipment - Home Bar Equipment - A typical bar spoon</image:title>
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      <image:caption>For beer glasses standard pint glasses are usually sufficient though you may want to have twelve-ounce tulip glasses on hand for yourself or a discerning friend.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Home Bar Equipment - Home Bar Equipment - My knock-off Glencairn Glass</image:title>
      <image:caption>In my opinion this is the ultimate tasting glass, it’s very sturdy, with a weighted foot, nice bowl to allow aroma diffusion and a nice taper to concentrate the aroma.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Home Bar Equipment - Home Bar Equipment - A classic mixing crystal glass</image:title>
      <image:caption>A classic crystal mixing glass with weighted base.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Home Bar Equipment - Home Bar Equipment - A very basic can opener</image:title>
      <image:caption>Ideally a can opener should have a sharp tip to pierce metals and should be on the smaller end to work with any can type. Notice that this one also has in integral bottle opener.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Home Bar Equipment - Home Bar Equipment - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>My ceramic pairing knife and bamboo cutting board, I do recommend using a wooden cutting board despite it’s greater cost because bamboo is porous and will retain flavors so be conscientious of your choices.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Home Bar Equipment - Home Bar Equipment - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>My fully assembled bar cart, including a few additional items that make my life easier like a bar mat, bar mop, and napkin caddy.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Home Bar Equipment - Home Bar Equipment - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>The various types of “jigger”. Japanese (left), handled (center), and traditional (right).</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65aacd24b949cb4666920d33/a006a85f-1892-48ad-aa98-f71e38745047/Boston+Shaker.JPG</image:loc>
      <image:title>Home Bar Equipment - Home Bar Equipment - My preference, a simple Boston Shaker</image:title>
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      <image:title>Home Bar Equipment - Home Bar Equipment - A Bar Top Citrus Press</image:title>
      <image:caption>There are various versions of this, some which mount securely with hardware and others, like this one, that stick down with suction cups.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Home Bar Equipment - Home Bar Equipment - Two options for peelers;</image:title>
      <image:caption>a straight peeler (top), and a y peeler (bottom). I generally prefer the y shaped peeler for safety and consistency.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Home Bar Equipment - Home Bar Equipment - A very basic Champagne Flute</image:title>
      <image:caption>Most champagne flutes are only about 4 oz or so and would typically have a longer stems to avoid warming your chilled champagne but I prefer a sturdier glass.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Home Bar Equipment - Home Bar Equipment - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Two sizes of fine mesh strainers.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Home Bar Equipment - Home Bar Equipment - A simple Champagne Coupe</image:title>
      <image:caption>A nice alternative to both the champagne flute and the cocktail glass, a coupe is elegant and similar in volume but with a nice rim to help with sloshing liquid staying in the glass.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Home Bar Equipment - Home Bar Equipment - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Boston Shaker (left), Mixing Glass (center), Three Piece Shaker (right)</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65aacd24b949cb4666920d33/dd46c25a-ed40-467a-b7b7-624e0131b7c9/Wine+Glass.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Home Bar Equipment - Home Bar Equipment - A modern wine glass,</image:title>
      <image:caption>A modern wine glass, note the large bowl that tapers to the top to concentrate the smell of the wine.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Home Bar Equipment - Home Bar Equipment - A selection of bar picks</image:title>
      <image:caption>Having a small variety can be nice for various cocktails</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Home Bar Equipment - Home Bar Equipment - A Double Old Fashioned Glass</image:title>
      <image:caption>This is the workhorse glass of the professional and home bar, suitable for anything that needs ice and viable for any strained drink you don’t put in an up glass Note, this is not a rocks glass, though it is typically the glass you will use for drinks on the rocks.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Home Bar Equipment - Home Bar Equipment - A true Rocks Glass</image:title>
      <image:caption>A true rocks glass is often utilized for mixed shots and can typically hold up to 3 - 4 oz of liquid, it is great for a single pour of liquor on the rocks.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Home Bar Equipment - Home Bar Equipment - A typical cocktail glass</image:title>
      <image:caption>You will more likely refer to this as a martini glass given how iconic the combination of the martini, olives, and cocktail glass has become but it is actually called a cocktail glass.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Home Bar Equipment - Home Bar Equipment - A waiter’s key or wine key</image:title>
      <image:caption>A waiter’s key is essential, it is compact, making it portable, and is also usable as a bottle opener.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Home Bar Equipment - Home Bar Equipment - My Three Piece Shaker:</image:title>
      <image:caption>This is a more unique option for three piece shakers, it has a main vessel etched with recipes and an outer sleeve that rotates to show the ingredients for each drink.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Home Bar Equipment - Home Bar Equipment - A zester and spiral peeler</image:title>
      <image:caption>This can be used for much finer garnishes where a typical twist may not be desirable.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Home Bar Equipment - Home Bar Equipment - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>An inexpensive and compact kitchen option; my bar cart.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Home Bar Equipment - Home Bar Equipment - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A Hawthorne Strainer (left), and a Julep Strainer (right).</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A basic hand citrus press</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://foxtail-apothecary.com/stocking-your-home-bar/Blog Post Title One-tjmee</loc>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65aacd24b949cb4666920d33/b7fe53bf-bb9e-41ee-8b4c-3452bfbce86d/Mixers+Shelf.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Stocking Your Home Bar - Stocking Your Home Bar - I have a small collection of mixer’s, not pictured is my aqua fizz and syrups, like I mention throughout the post I have a few staples, my bitters, flavored tonic waters, topo chico, “mexican coke” due to it’s superior flavor, and a big bottle of rose water.</image:title>
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      <image:caption>I keep my rums and favorite specialty liqueurs on the same shelf, this includes Licoco from the DR, my preferred orange liqueurs, Cointreau and Gran Gala behind it, as well as my Italian favorites Disaronno and a mid-tier sambuca.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>My do-it-all shelf, it holds all of my go to options (minus rum) including my current favorite flavored vodka. I keep the items I use more frequently up front, less frequently in the back.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>My selection of higher-end whiskeys and some of my favorite empties with my tasting journal</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>This is my selection of liqueurs and other mixers, I have my vermouth on this shelf with other herbal and amaro options as well as some flavored whiskeys and vodkas.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Stocking Your Home Bar - Stocking Your Home Bar - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>'This is my both my literal bottom shelf and metaphorical “bottom shelf” it’s mostly inexpensive high flavor high sugar liqueurs and other items that either don’t have a home or are unopened and haven’t made their way to the correct shelf, mostly due to space and weight restrictions.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://foxtail-apothecary.com/essential-home-bar-skills/Blog Post Title One-jc9n2</loc>
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      <image:title>Essential Home Bar Skills - How to Mix a Cocktail - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Adding your bitters is a matter of taste, I prefer to do 3 - 4 dashes but different bottles release different volumes per dash so you may have to dial this in.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Next add in your sweet vermouth, again I am using Carpano Classico, it has a nice well rounded flavor and a sweetness that really compliments rye.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Essential Home Bar Skills - How to Mix a Cocktail - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Add in your sweet vermouth, note that I flipped my jigger to the smaller end for a more precise measure of the 1/2 ounce volume, the larger side of my jiggers only measures 1.5 and 2 ounces while the smaller side measures .5 and 1 ounces.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Essential Home Bar Skills - How to Mix a Cocktail - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Add in your dry vermouth next, normally I would use Alessio Bianco because it has a brighter more citrus forward flavor that helps curb the earthy rye flavor but my local store no longer carries the brand so I went with Noilly Pratt as another light and bright option.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Essential Home Bar Skills - How to Mix a Cocktail - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Dash in your bitters over the ice, this step is the same as above with stirring cocktails, this is purely to taste.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Seal the shaker securely with a firm tap using the heel of your palm, notice that the shaker is already starting to fog up because the liquid is transferring the cold from the ice to the metal, this is a good indication that your ingredients are already starting to get cold.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Essential Home Bar Skills - How to Mix a Cocktail - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Once again swashbuckle your favorite cherry and place it gently to garnish the drink. you can see even more very fine bubbles starting to settle out of the cocktail now and you can see just how precariously full this cocktail glass has become.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Add in your two ounces of Rye Whisky.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>My choice of equipment for stirring cocktails, note my choice of coupe and crystal mixing glass with a Julep style strainer.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>My choice of ingredients for this Perfect Manhattan, note the traditional Rye Whisky (George Dickel), Carpano Classico for my Sweet (Rosso or Red) Vermouth, Noilly Pratt for my Dry (White or Bianco) Vermouth and Angostura bitters in a handsome little dashing bottle.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Carefully fill your jigger to the two ounce mark, for me this is the top rim, doing this over or beside the vessel will save any spillage. Note I have the jigger pinched between my fingers which act as a sort of fulcrum, this is a little tricky but makes it look like you know what you’re doing so give it a little practice with some water until you’re confident, alternatively you can just hold the jigger however is most comfortable while allowing you to pour smoothly.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Essential Home Bar Skills - How to Mix a Cocktail - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Strain your cocktail through the Julep strainer which just sits on top of the ice. To prevent the weight from pushing out the strainer you want to make sure there is a fairly extreme angle and pressure against the side of the glass to keep the strainer seated.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Swashbuckle (read skewer) your cherry and place into your finished product, enjoy!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Double strain the contents using the Hawthorne strainer and fine mesh sieve into your glass.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Here you have the two final products side by side, notice the difference in color and the difference in the volume of the glasses. When I bought these glasses both purported to hold the same volume, about 3.5 - 4 fluid ounces. You can see just how much volume shaking a drink can added as the ice cracks and melts. and that sort of hazy look, in addition to the sweating glass, is an indication of how much air has been infused into the drink.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Use the heel of your palm again to unseal the tin, it’s worth stating that it is easier to keep your empty hand steady and swing the sealed tin into it. You are aiming just above where the metal rim of the small tin is seated inside the large tin.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Place your strainer on top of the tin and use your first finger to apply pressure against the spring seated inside the tin. This pressure will help the strainer stay seated even when the ice clanks against it.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>After vigorous shaking you can see how frosted the tin has become, this is where you want it to be for a well chilled drink, think about a nice frosty margarita, that is the level of cold you are generally aiming for.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A pair of perfectly crafted Perfect Manhattans and the ingredients that make them up.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>My mixing glass and ice, because of the fairly large size of my ice and the fairly low volume of liquid (about 3 ounces) I don’t need much but it fills about 1/3 to 1/2 of the vessel.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Stir your ingredients together using the corkscrew of your bar spoon to rotate between your first and second finger while supporting it from behind with your thumb. Go around the glass in smooth quick motions.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Essential Home Bar Skills - How to Mix a Cocktail - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Here you can see just how much the ice breaks during the shaking process, without the fine mesh sieve these chips would end up in the drink and continue to water down the drink and add an unexpected, and often unpleasant, chunky texture to an otherwise very refined cocktail. Also note just how many bubbles are present after pouring a shaken cocktail.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>My basic set up for shaking cocktails. I opted to do everything in the larger tin just because I had limited space with my current arrangement. Note that I have opted for a Hawthorne strainer and fine mesh sieve. I still have my bar spoon as well to help with cherry retrieval.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Pour in the same volume of dry vermouth.</image:caption>
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