Having good bartending skills and knowing your way around your home bar will make you a very entertaining host at any get together you are having. Bartending is not complicated once you learn the basic terminology and skills. Once you have that knowledge, you can easily follow any recipe you find in a cocktail recipe book or online. Our goal is to just give you the knowledge you need and skip the things that you will never need to know. We start with the basic terminology, next we move to what you need to stock your bar. We quickly move to what tools you will need and explain the basic techniques you will need to use. Since it is sometimes hard to visualize what is written about a technique, we have put in links to videos that should be helpful.

Now that you have the skills to bartend, we have included some recipes to the most popular drinks. We can only scratch the surface of the many drink recipes out there. You should be able to find many more on your own. This is one of the funniest parts of having a home bar. It is fun trying out new recipes.

We then answer a few common party planning questions and then as an added bonus, we have include the popular Apple Pie Moonshine Recipe and a few more of our favorites.