Best variety with only 6 ingredients
What would be the best variety you get with only 6 ingredients? And really 6, every garnish and ice count too.
Posted Jan 5, 2023, 12:50 PM UTC
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Six seems like a lot, even if you count ice and garnish?
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For variety? So what ingredients would you choose and how many drinks you could come up with them?
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Oh! Like, if you could only have six ingredients in your home bar and wanted to be able to make a large variety of drinks with those ingredients?
I’d go with a dry gin (which could also sub vodka in a pinch), a pretty generic whiskey (eg nothing too huge or too smooth, good for mixing, something like Jameson or Canadian Club on a budget, depends what’s available near you), a liqueur of some sort and either a vermouth or something a little more bitter like an Amaro depending on your taste.
Then maybe a good bottle of bitters, and fresh fruit for juicing and garnish.
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Does the glass count too?
Shaken cocktails also contain air, we’re up to 6 ingredients already: glass, ice, air, toothpick, cherry, orange peel.
If you are going to drink it or eat it then obviously.