The Complete Guide to Bar Supplies: Must-Have Equipment and Tools

There are some essential and non-essential tools that a bartender should have at his disposal.it is not easy to know all of them, but thanks to this article, you will know what to include in your Bar Supplies.

The Essential Tools

A bartender on the job must essentially have the following tools in their Bar Supplies:

• Bar Blade – This handy tool helps in much more than just opening beer bottles quickly.

• Wine Knife – Helping open corked wine or beer bottles, this essential tool is also referred to as a wine key or a waiter’s friend.

• Pens – Though not directly related to serving drinks, pens help take orders and keep track of the bill!

• Lighter – Smoker or not, a bartender must also have a lighter to light shooters and help a forgetful customer light up a cigarette.

• Apron – Just like in the kitchen, an apron protects the clothing from spills and stains and allows for carrying small essential bar tools.

Tools for Making Cocktails

In addition, there are some specific tools to get from the Beer Supplier that are necessary to make cocktails. The list includes:

• A good, sharp, and long knife will help cut lemons, limes, veggies, fruits, and garnishes for a cocktail.

• A chopping board – Using a specific and clean chopping board to cut the garnishes looks hygienic.

• Ice bucket – This will prevent a bartender from running to the freezer every time there is an order for a cocktail.

• A scoop – This tool makes handling ice easier and also looks hygienic rather than using hands. Also, using glass is risky as it can break, and the shard may end up in a cocktail.

• Jiggers – This small measuring tool helps maintain the right balance of the ingredients of a cocktail, even in a free-pour bar.

• Speed spouts – These are a specific type of pourers fixed on a bottle and measure every pour and help make a drink.

• Boston shaker – This is a shaking tool. There are two pieces of unequal sizes. They form a tight container preventing spilling and splashing of liquid everywhere when shaken.

You can additionally order the following from the Beer Supplier:

• A Hawthorne strainer and a fine tea strainer

• Bar spoons to stir the cocktails and

• Muddlers to crush fruit or fruit press.

Conclusion

These are the tools that a bartender should have at the counter. It will make them happier to be behind the counter.