5 Versatile Spirits to Stock Your Bar

Ingredients

Tom Schlesinger-Guidelli's Recommendations for 5 Essential Spirits for the Home Bar:

  • Gin (Plymouth, Beefeater, Bombay or London Dry)
  • Spicy Rye (Rittenhouse 100-proof)
  • Benedictine Liqueur
  • Chartreuse Liqueur
  • Vermouth (Martini & Rossi

Cocktail Ingredients

The Alaska - Recommended Glass: Cocktail Glass

  • 2¼ oz gin
  • ¾ oz Yellow Chartreuse
  • 2 dashes orange bitters
  • lemon twist for garnish

The Colleen Bawn - Recommended Glass: Coupe Glass

  • 1 oz rye (Rittenhouse 100 Rye Whiskey)
  • 1 oz Yellow Chartreuse
  • 1 oz Benedictine
  • 1 egg

How-to

The Alaska Cocktail

  1. Stir all ingredients and strain into a cocktail glass
  2. Add a lemon twist garnish

The Colleen Bawn Cocktail

  1. Hard shake ingredients and strain into a coupe glass
  2. To with grated nutmeg