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    Simple Living Liquor Cabinet!

    What's in your ideal liquor cabinet? My actual cabinet contains way too much stuff. My ideal streamlined cabinet would only contain:
    • Cognac VSOP (Courvoisier or similar)
    • Cachacas (for mojitos)
    • Laphroaig scotch
    • A decent Vodka (just one, unflavored. DH favors Ketel One, and I would never be able to tell the difference, so fine with me)
    • Myers Dark rum (for Dark & Stormys)
    • A decent bourbon (we currently have a local called Nor'easter and another called Berkshire Bourbon)
    • A decent rye
    • Campari

    And a couple of different types of bitters. I love bitters!

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    I think vodka is a good basic liquor to have around. Otherwise, doh, I do not know. I was not until very recently a drinker of hard liqour. I accept vodka because it can be mixed with anything to make it taste like anything!

    My crowd, now decimated from moving away, was a wine and beer crowd.

    I have 3 friends who drink Scotch and bourbon, but I would never stock my cabinet with liquor just for them.

    In my house the bottom line has always been this: you can get a decent glass of red wine. Don’t count on anything else

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    Bitters! That is so funny you should bring that up because I was just writing to my friend about bitters. I priced them at the liquor store and Whoah they are expensive so I did not buy any. She has some in her refrigerator. I told her I was going to take them. This is my friend who moved away.

    now I’m anxious to try Bitters is because it is so very British I love the idea of Bitters.

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    New Amsterdam Gin for me for the win.....mixes well with tonic and is often on deep discount all over town. Barring that......a Mexican tequila bought in Algodones for less than 1/2 it would cost in the US and a bottle of Presidente Brandy (from Mexico also).....goes well with 85006 neighbor airport worker gossip. I'm not much of a drinker, neither is anyone else under my roof so that would be a Simple Living Liquor Drawer (don't need a whole cabinet) for me. Rob

    PS Came back to add it's interesting that I sold wine all those years waiting tables and I don't list any wine in my liquor drawer......add a bottle of something white and Portuguese. Whatever TAP Portugal served in economy on my flight from Vienna to Lisbon in 2015.
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    We started delving into bitters because we were trying to make good Old Fashioneds at home. We got a bottle of grapefruit bitters from Fee Brothers that is so good!

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    I need:

    Rum - for rum balls, and putting in tea when I'm getting a cold
    Brandy - for making brandied cherries and some dessert items
    Absinthe - for drinking, carefully
    Sherry, decent but not too good - for cooking, sauces
    Local-made Genever-style gin - for drinking and to support my neighbor who makes it
    Grappas - a selection - for drinking

    Now, I also keep a good supply of Port wine on hand, for drinking and sauces, but that's in the wine cellar, not the liquor cabinet. Ditto the sake.

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    We are mostly a beer/wine/cider household. That said, I do also have vodka, but that's mostly used for herbal tinctures. I have rum for rum balls and mojitos. I have a greek moonshine, some aperol for spritzes, and some Maple Rye and Maple Liquor from a recent trip to Vermont. There's a bottle of elderflower liqueur that a friend raved about, but I haven't really found a use for it.

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    Vodka-prefer 44North Huckleberry or Grey Goose-plain

    Devils Cut Whiskey-Jim Beam hubby's favorite sipper

    Irish Cream for weekend coffee

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    Our household is strictly beer/wine. So for us our liquor cabinet is a room with lots of wine racks and a kegerator. While there's nothing simple about being a couple who drink alcohol, at least there's no plastic involved. (hopefully society never gets to the point where decent wine is sold in plastic bottles!)

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    My husband keeps a variety of high end whiskeys on hand. From all over the world. I would have zero alcohol if I lived alone. Not really into it.

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