Lots of great stuff from http://store.thebostonshaker.com :
$10 Your basic (unfinished for food saftey) cocktail muddler
$? A measuring cup that marks down to 1/4 oz. Many do 1/2, but they're conical, and so where's the half mark really? Engineering, call on line 3.
$6.5 Fee Brothers Orgeat Almond Cordial Syrup
$9 conical strainer for seeds and crystals and pulp and the dreaded, hateful ice crystals.
$5 Hawthorn strainer for shaken/stirred
$2.5 mid-sized bottles that seal - for those occasional syrups you make for some drinks
?$ A triple-stitched-reinfirced burlap bag for crushing ice. The burlap soaks up the water leaving clean ice and counter. Like this, but far less expensive. Maybe hand-made by you?
$4.5 the flat bottle opener - every bartender's back pocket is empty without one
$50 Many of these items are available as a kit, like this one. A couple of things I have (like jiggers), but then they become (clean) backups.
$9 An almost "Nick and Nora" -esque style champagne coupe, because what else do you serve prohibition era cocktails in? No, seriously. (actual Nick and Nora glass here)
$? Tiki mugs/cups from yard sales. Refuse to pay retail! (example, example 2)
$6 Pilsner glass - don't have room for many, but it is one of my favorite beers. All the better if it has a base to hang it by.
Oh, and the nicer "upper shelf" bottles to experiment with - 1/2 bottles or "mickies" can be a good way to taste-test them w/o going whole hog. Things like Cointreau that are supposed to be like triple-sec, but vastly superior. After testing home made grenadine (tastes like pomegranate!) to Rose's Grenadine (tastes like thin cough syrup!), I'm more willing to believe it.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Sunday, November 30, 2008
thinking...thinking...
Blu-ray movies would be great! They can be a lil expensive, though, so rental coupons would also be phenominal. Leah and I particularly like to watch BBC nature docs w/ Attenbourough (?) in Blu-ray.
Wine Thingies
Well, what we had here has been bought - good job! We're still happy for sample bottles of your favorite wines or gift certificates.
Also, most the content (gift ideas) is in "older posts," so please be sure to click that link at the bottom of the page. Cheers!
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Wine Wheel (click here) $6.75
It helps you describe what the heck youre tasting in a wine - looks very helpful. Recomended by experts, n stuff. http://www.winearomawheel.com/#howToUse
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Sailing stuff
MM, sailing stuff. Like, old style early 1800s sailing stuff. I have a painting of a clipper already, and a sextant, but a deck prisim, old ship compass or somesuch would also be pretty cool.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
motorcycle (BMW R-75) funness
Fun stuff, for office or whatever, in reference to the bike. This paperweight thing is "accessory 003B" on http://members.aol.com/vechbmw2/partno.html#Accessories
Also, there's an assortment of vintage (pre and postwar) BMW posters that would be fun to frame for the room, house, garage, etc (find cheaper! but see: 80 32 0 007 350--$62.35--BMW Vintage motorcycle set of 6 posters BMW Mobile Traditions-style prewar Photo 80 32 0 007 351--$62.35--BMW Vintage motorcycle set of 6 posters by BMW Mobile Traditions-style postwar Photo from the above mentioned page) These are just general ideas, of course. Apply as you wish. Thanks to Leah, I have the yellow one already!
Also, Beamer Mugs:
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