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You absolutely need a few spirits that form the base of a lot of cocktails. We suggest that you make even these really good, flavorful, spirits so that they will also be great neat. A spirit that is great neat is also generally a good cocktail base. Once you have the basics, have some fun choosing things that you really enjoy. A visit to a Spirits & Spice store is a great way to find those spirits that spark joy. You can try before you buy at all of our retail locations, making it a fun experience to stock your bar to please you and your guests. Check out our Recipe section on our website for cocktail recipes galore.
The popularity of American Bourbon has surged in recent years, making it top of our list to begin stocking your home bar. Bourbon is a uniquely American spirit — in fact it must be made in North America and aged in new charred American Oak barrels in order to be called Bourbon. That aging process in new American Oak barrels gives Bourbon a distinctive sweet and spicy flavor.
Bourbon is the base for many popular cocktails; Bourbon Old Fashions, Bourbon Smash, Whisky Sour, Whiskey & Coke. Our S&S Traditional Kentucky Bourbon is a great bourbon to start building your bar. It is easy drinking so you can feel pride in serving it neat or over ice. This bourbon features notes of caramel, green apple, and peach with a smooth but spicy finish on the end.
A no fuss, no muss cocktail, ready to serve is our S&S Bourbon Old Fashioned. It’s our most popular brown spirit and one taste and you will know why. It would be a great addition to any bar as one of your fun and frills options.
Vodka is another bar staple that you should have stocked for your guests (and for you). A really good vodka shouldn’t taste like anything; unless its flavored to specifically taste like something. Vodka is a neutral grain spirit that can be made out of a lot of different things; potatoes, apples, wheat, almost anything that has a natural sugar. You will also want to make sure it is smooth — that you don’t appreciate an overwhelming bite of ethanol.
Our S&S Vodka is made from apples and grains, and is safely consumed by those with celiac. Our S&S Vodka is really smoooth; like a good R&B crooner. It is definitely a good sipper and it may be served on ice, with tonic, with juice or mixed into a cocktail.
For some added fun, you can also try our Flavored Vodkas. Mint, Anise, and Cinnamon are all presented by infusing botanicals into Vodka. To start out, you might want to try our Flavored Vodka Set 200ml — which has each of these flavored vodkas in smaller bottles so that you can play with them and see which ones you like best. Turn the ordinary into the extraordinary with some FLAVOR.
Gin is another grain distilled spirit infused with botanicals; usually containing juniper. Like Vodka, it is most important that your chosen gin is smooth and has a botanical flavor that you find pleasing. Our S&S Piedmont Gin, from the Dolomite Mountains of Italy, combines traditional juniper with coriander and citrus and it is silky soft on the finish. Serve it neat, with ice, with tonic, or juice or in a cocktail.
If you really don’t like juniper — and some people don’t {no judgment here}—you might want to stock our S&S Tangerine Gin. Tangerine citrus is much more prevalent than the juniper and lavendar and it makes a great base for most Gin-based cocktails. Try it in a French 75 for a real crowd pleaser!
Tequila Blanco is the clear, unaged agave spirit that anchors margaritas, palomas, and ranch waters.
Our S&S Tequila Blanco is 100% Blue Weber agave from the lowlands in Jalisco. You get sweet cooked agave on the nose, a soft fruity palate with hints of mint, and a long spicy finish.
S&S Tequila Blanco
Want an easy cocktails to make at home win? Shake it with lime and a splash of our Jalapeno Liqueur for a margarita with a kick.
Rum cocktails live and die on the bottle you choose, and a smooth rum can make mojitos, daiquiris, and tiki drinks in one go.
Our Barbados Rum takes a smooth and rich rum from a modern distillery located on the site of an historic plantation dated from the early 1600s. It is aged for eight years in a port barrel which lends flavors of vanilla, and notes of toasted almond and black pepper. It's delicious neat, on ice, or Mai Tai, and it shines in a Mojito.
Liqueurs are what turn two ingredients into a real drink. They add sweetness, flavor, and color without requiring you to buy five different mixers, which is exactly why they belong in any home cocktail lineup. Think of them as the modifier layer: the base spirit carries the drink, the liqueur shapes it.
This part is all about preference and where you get to have some fun. Come into Spirits & Spice and taste — find out what you love and take it home and play with it. If you can’t get into one of our 7 retail stores to try in person, you can buy one or more of our gift sets that contain smaller bottles of liqueurs to try them at home.
For example, our Chocolate Candy Liqueur Set 200ml set contains 3 of our favorite chocolate cream liqueurs and any one of the them is great in coffee, over ice cream, neat or with ice after dinner or in your unique version of a White Russian. Our Coffee Lover’s Set 200ml, offers 3 coffee focused liqueurs which are great for your unique version of a Expresso Martini.
Our website has hundreds of recipes for homemade cocktails, so search those for other suggestions before you improvise.
Building a home bar is a puzzle, and the pieces that fit are the ones you'll actually use and enjoy. Spirits & Spice curates high-quality spirits, custom spice blends, premium oils, vinegars, and fine wines for exactly this kind of entertaining, with in-store tasting experiences so you know what you're going to love what you are bringing home.