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Last week, our top selling product was our combination brass bar rail bracket. These brackets are often our best sellers, and a product that our team highly recommends, and with good cause - they’re secure, high quality and classic.

These bar brackets mount to both the front face of your bar and to the floor to make sure that your bar foot rails stay tight (even through all those late nights, when your wife is giving you “the eye,” hoping that you’ll send your obnoxious buddies home), and they come with all the hardware you need to install them.

If you have a home bar, adding bar rails gives your bar an added dimension of class and distinction. Not to mention making sitting at your bar infinitely more comfortable. Without bar rails, your feet have no home; they just hang in space awaiting a good resting spot. You feel a bit out of sorts, uncomfortable, confused. (If only my feet had a home!)

So, you’re not Tim the Toolman Taylor? All good. We make installing bar rails in your home bar easy. Check out these easy installation instructions! We swear you can do it! (And if you can’t, we’re sure that one of your buddies owes you for supplying the beer during all the big games).

Stay tuned and thanks for reading!

TAGS [ HOME BAR | BAR RAILS | FOOT REST | FOOT RAILS ]

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This great little article, from the Niagara Gazette, provides tips on dressing up your cocktails. Using garnishes can add a whole new dimension to your drink experience! You’ll also find some tasty recipes and tips from pro bartenders. Check it out! Thinking about playing bartender at home and dressing up your own drinks? Garnish and condiment trays can organize and store garnishes, so they’re always close at hand.

TAGS [ HOME BAR | COCKTAILS | GARNISHES ]

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Cocktail guru, Robert Hess, of www.drinkboy.com, gives great advice about how to start stocking your own home bar or liquor cabinet. Thanks Robert!

TAGS [ COCKTAILS | HOME BAR ]

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Autumn is upon us, and it’s the perfect season to update and reorganize your bar. We’ve got a lot of great ways to get your bar into shape, without breaking the bank.

Glass and Stemware Racks
Hang your glasses overhead, under your bar or on the wall. Whether you have 5 glasses or 500, our racks are customizable for a perfect fit. Try our single channel glass racks, which can be mixed and matched to fit any space. They’re perfect overhead or below your bar, and they save you a ton of cabinet space. Or, if you’re looking for a way to store bottles of wine and glasses together, check out our wine bottle and stemware rack. It mounts easily to the wall and gives you quick access to your wine and glasses.

Bar Caddies and Condiment Holders
Keep your bar surface organized and clear of clutter! Bar caddies neatly store your straws, napkins and stirrers. Plus, we’ve got a ton of different condiment trays to choose from, so your garnishes, like olives and cherries, are always readily at hand.

Liquor Bottle Shelves
These shelves are perfect on the back of your bar. They show off your collection of booze and make your bottles easy to find and grab. Bottle shelves come in all sizes, colors and types.

Bartending Kits
Get everything you need to be the best bartender on the block! The high quality items in our bartending kits are hand selected based on customer demand.

TAGS [ HOME BAR | GLASS RACKS | BAR CADDIES ]

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Check out this video to learn the importance of using bitters in cocktails. Alberta does a fantastic job of explaining why bitters are used and some key differences between top brands.

TAGS [ BITTERS | COCKTAIL BITTERS | COCKTAILS ]

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Ah, yes. We’re heading into my absolute favorite time of year. Preseason football is in full swing, and I’m just counting down til opening day. But, there’s no time to just wait around for September 9th to come. Now is the perfect time to upgrade your bar for the new season, and we have tons of simple and inexpensive ways to do it.

Cool New Additions:
Add this Wall Mount Stainless Steel Drip Tray	Try the Automatic Keg Meter Monitoring System
Replace Old Parts:
Tons of New Branded Tap Handles	Grab a New US Sankey Coupler
Upgrade Existing Parts:
Upgrade to a Perlick Tarnish Free Polished Brass Faucet Head	Or Get a Top Quality Perlick Stainless Steel Draft Beer Faucet Head

With our expanding inventory, KegWorks has got you covered for all of your home bar and draft beer system needs. From kegerators and keg fridge conversion kits to pitchers and pints, we’ve got what you need. Check ‘em out!

TAGS [ HOME BAR | DRAFT BEER ]

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Day Three of Tales of the Cocktail began for us with a seminar entitled “Enter the Distologist.” The featured panelists came from widely varied backgrounds, but their stories converged with the desire to make the transition from ‘mixologist’ to ‘distologist.’ That basically means they went from mixing cocktails with other people’s spirits to distilling spirits of their own.

The ‘distologist’ who interested me the most was cocktailian chemist, Ted Breaux. Those familiar with the industry probably recognize his name, but it was new to me. Turns out he’s an actual scientist, presumably with Bunsen burners, test tubes, a laboratory - the whole nine. He spoke about the path he trod toward better cocktails through chemistry, culminating with a sampling of his latest creation, Perique, a tobacco liqueur. It’s named for the Louisiana tobacco from which it’s made, the most rare and precious tobacco in the world.

As the sample cup made its way down the aisle to me I imagined a flavor akin to drinking cheap liquor out of an old ashtray, complete with old cigarette butts floating in it. Such a description couldn’t be further from the truth. Think: grandpa’s aromatic pipe tobacco before he lights it, only in 62-proof liquid form. It was rich, distinctive and quite delicious. If not my favorite sample of the week, it was definitely in the top three.

The next session we attended, “South American Spirits,” highlighted the history, production and usage of its two native spirits, Pisco and Cachaça. Cachaça shares some qualities with rum and is the most popular spirit in Brazil. I had never tried either spirit before, but the opportunity arose when ‘Master Mixologist’, Junior Merino, guided us through the process of making a Caipirinha. It is the most popular Cachaça-based cocktail and is strikingly similar to a Mojito, sans the mint. I enjoyed the drink and would recommend it. If you’d like to try it, here’s the recipe:

Caipirinha
2 oz Cachaça
1 tbsp sugar
½ of a fresh lime, cut into small cubes

In a mixing glass, add limes and sugar. Muddle to dissolve sugar in the lime juice. Add Cachaça and stir well. Add ice, shake until can is frosty to finish dissolving the sugar. Pour into rocks glass with fresh ice. Garnish with lime wedge.

My first time using a muddler went fairly well, though I didn’t muddle quite as vigorously as some others at our table. I did, however, overhear an amusing exchange that included one guy, obviously a pro bartender, exhorting a fellow attendee to “Muddle it, don’t cuddle it!” Apparently that qualifies as bartender humor.

Our final seminar for the day was called “Aromatics and Their Uses in Cocktails.” Honestly, most of the discussion of tinctures, extracts and aromatics was over my head, but I did pick up a few fascinating revelations involving olfaction, taste and the human subconscious. Check it out, it’s really interesting.

That seminar concluded Day Three of the conference. Only one more day to go, so be sure to check back for the thrilling conclusion to our time at Tales of the Cocktail in New Orleans.

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