I came across the ORI Mix from orifuture while shopping for ice molds. Apparently you connect your own liquor bottles, add flavor pods, and it mixes cocktails for you.

anyone tried drinks from this kind of machine? How do they actually taste?

Edit: I meant “cocktail machines” in the title. My bad..

I’m thinking of adding an ice maker to our home bar. I make cocktails and drink whiskey, and my wife would use it for iced coffee too. The Euhomy Rock Plus caught my eye because it makes big square cubes, but I haven’t owned a countertop ice maker before. If you’ve used this one or another model, how has it held up? I’m especially interested in the noise and how much of a pain it is to clean.

Has anyone here purchased the pipe/shelf kits from Amazon or Home Depot? Any advice on shelving kits would be appreciated.

Trying to identify this liquor bottle from an old photo taken in Sweden around 2001 or 2002. It has a white front face/label, a black twist cap, and the central design looks like a diamond or a Google Maps location pin kinda its a blurry photo so its hard tryna help a friend figure this out blast from the past!

Help me plan some storage

We're building a new wine/bourbon cocktail lounge in the basement and I want to move to something above my current "floor bourbon" storage.

I have about 100 bottles and wanted to turn this punch out which (when finished will be 52" wide and 2'deep) into something. I was thinking of putting a dry bar cart on the floor to have a surface to pour some storage there then something on the wall above it maybe. Alternatively pour station can be elsewhere and this could be full wall storage.

So any suggestions? Love to see pics if you've got something that might work!

Note the plywood backing was planning for potentially hanging something heavy, a lesson I learned in building my wife's wine wall.

In the fridge I also have: crème de violet, lillet, kahlua, dry vermouth, sweet vermouth.

This is the before and after of the kitchen in our new place. The builder’s removed the box from the wall and we’re going to put shelves in its place; note the exhaust fan needs to be built back in somewhere. I‘ve got ~50 active bottles I need to shelve. How do I best do it? The ceiling is ~3100mm high, so I’ll need some kind of step ladder to get up there at all.

Looking around here for some ideas, maybe the best thing is to put in three levels of tiered shelves, 200mm deep each, spread across this height (or maybe I only need 120)? Inlay the shelves with glass with a little void underneath the glass panels so I can run LED strips.

Salut à tous.
Que pensez vous de ces 3 présentoirs lumineux que je viens de récupérer.
Bois et métal ultra robuste, les 2 éléments s’éclairent ensemble ou indépendamment l’un de l’autre.
Introuvable en commerce bien sûr car uniquement donné à des détaillants de spiritueux hauts de gamme ou dans des bars sélectionnés.
Si vous en avez également je serais curieux de les voir 😁, moi j’adore en tout cas. Je sais déjà où en mettre 2, c’est plus compliqué pour le troisième car je ne vois pas du tout où le placer chez moi.

Mais franchement je suis sous le charme de ces glorificateurs, de pures merveilles.

I got tired of constantly buying mint only to have it wilt and turn brown within a couple of days. We make a lot of Tiki drinks and I use a lot of it. So, I decided to grow my own. I tried several times using various heirloom mint seeds but it produced mint that was small, mostly flavorless, and not aromatic. It also seemed to die suddenly after a couple of months. I finally ordered live Mojito Mint and took clippings and planted them in an unused garden. It has taken off. The photo is 5 weeks after planting. It smells and looks amazing. I can’t wait to be slinging drinks at my birthday party next week! Is anybody else growing mint or other herbs in their bar in a small hydroponic container?

My husband set up a home bar in our basement and has plenty of liquor but it kind of just looks like a man cave and I want to help make it look more legit. Where do I get good looking bar decor? Ideally not neon beer signs

Also tell me which bottles should add to the bar. I like whiskey

Hi, everyone. I recently got this moving cart on casters from Ikea. Now, I have a movable bar surface that I can tuck in to make room in my kitchen or set up as a bar top when I'm making and serving cocktails to my friends. I'm looking for suggestions on how to make it fit in better. Specifically, what would you do to the top of the cart to make it less utility shed looking and more modern, but cozy bar vibe? I'm thinking a thick live edge wood plank, subway tiles, or just stain it. Open to ideas, thank you!

We recently created a basement bar, and the backsplash in thin brick. I would like to put up 2 shelves, roughly 30" wide each for liquor and wine bottle storage.

One idea we had was to have an antiqued mirror on the wall with the shelving in front of it. I am generally a pretty handy person, but I honestly don't know the correct way to go about trying to install shelving through or on top of a mirror.

We are also open to other tips and recommendations people have to bottle displays/storage

Doesn't look like Sub-Zero or U-line or any of the other reputable brands make a simple under counter freezer for our home bar reno.

In the next few months, id like to start on building a "bar" in a 8'x20' container. It's narrow, but plenty long for all the more im looking for. The build out is easy, i got that covered. They layout is my question. Ima toss up a couple of my ideas, but im definitely open to suggestions.

there are bunch of liquor and liqueur in island bar's drawer I keep it cool and dark place unable to show it because my cats would push them all down

We are renovating our basement and added this small dry bar. The right, far wall will be an antique mirror with liquor shelving. The left wall will have a TV and two light sconces. The backsplash will be brick.

I'd love feedback on if the TV should be centered on that well, or centered on the cabinet we have back there. And, once that's decided then I need to add 2 new electrical boxes where we want to put sconces. Any recommendation on sconce styles would also be appreciated.

Looking for any opinions how to setup the area. Considering a 60 inch cabinet with sink, with an L design. Building against a wall/under the stairs!

Not sure what to do exactly with the area under the stairs. It’s about 3 feet from the half wall to the stair frame. If I place the cabinets against the half wall, I’ll only have about 12 inches or so of clearance from under the stairs.

Any input appreciated

Found this channel on YouTube, a couple of good ideas.

https://youtu.be/68Y9diJHhng?is=Wp2Vx7R_bDEK8--B

Finally, at the age of 49, I have my own home bar, thanks to my (former architect) wife who designed it.

That's it for the grand tour! Always happy to get bottle recommendations, suggestions, and questions.

We built a new house and moved in 10 months ago. I still make frequent trips to the liquor store to continue filling up the bar, especially after finding new recipes in r/cocktails

Top shelf is for Whiskey and Bourbon, and the main shelf is for everything else. It's possibly overkill since my wife barely drinks, but I love it.