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Full Bar or Chosen Cocktails?

Rachel Perlow
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Rachel Perlow

Rachel Perlow

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When having a cocktail party at your home, should you have a full bar available (and a designated bartender) or should you make a few well chosen cocktails and just offer people a choice of those?

Gary Regan

Gary Regan

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The choice is really up to the individual. When we have, say, 8 - 12 people over for drinks, we usually offer a few different cocktails, but don't open the whole bar unless someone asks for a specific drink. Then, if we don't have all of the right ingredients, our guest has to suffer!

At our annual "invite everyone we've ever met in our village" party, though, we have a full bar, and we hire a bartender so we can enjoy ourselves with our guests.

“The practice is to commence with a brandy or gin ‘cocktail’ before breakfast, by way of an appetizer. Subsequently, a ‘digester’ will be needed. Then, in due course and at certain intervals, a ‘refresher,’ a ‘reposer,’ a ‘settler,’ a ‘cooler,’ an ‘invigorator,’ a ‘sparkler,’ and a ‘rouser,’ pending the final ‘nightcap,’ or midnight dram.” Life and Society in America by Samuel Phillips Day. Published by Newman and Co., 1880.

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