Useful Beverage Tips!

• Always have plenty of chilled water for guests to help themselves
• Make sure your bartender is TABC certified to ensure control
• A liter of liquor makes about 22 mixed drinks
• There are about 5 medium (5oz) glasses in a 750 ml bottle
• For a 2 hour cocktail party, allow 2½ aloholic beverages per person
• Have plenty of ice. It's not expensive.
• Use smaller glassware to avoid over-serving
• *Never* let your guests serve themselves alcohol
• At cocktail parties, red wine is generally more popular than white
• Basic bar is vodka, scotch, gin, bourbon, rum, vermouth, domestic & imported beers, and wine.
• Most alcoholic beverages can be bought on a sale-or-return basis
• Obligatory mixers are cranberry juice, soda water, tonic,
  Diet Coke®, regular Coke® and Sprite®.
• Garnishes should include lemons, limes, olives, maybe onions & cherries..
• Pass a unique drink upon the guests' arrival - it´s fun and memorable!
• If serving frozen drinks to over 20, rent a high-capacity machine
• Serving Martinis? Chill the glasses if possible.