Party Questions!

[Am_I_There_Yet]

You people are so bad, I know you'll have answers to my questions!

I am not a hard liquor kind of girl, but we're having some people over tomorrow night and I know some of the guys like Crown and Coke and Seagrams and 7-Up.

I'm going to hit Bed Bath & Beyond in the morning to buy the necessary "equipment", but I'm unsure of the type of glassware that I need.

I'm planning on buying a couple of decanters, so that it'll look nice sitting out, but can I pour what's left back in the bottles, to keep it fresh until next time? What kind of glasses for the above two drinks?

I'm also going to buy an ice bucket and some tongs.

I have the wine thing down and beer is beyond easy, but the hard liquor thing just stumps me.

I don't want things to feel formal - just "put together". Am I missing anything?

ETA: I'm also open for a good red wine suggestion! I drink Chardonnay, but I want to have a red here too. Nothing pricey!

 

[AKL_Megs]

I'd serve them in highball glasses like they serve them at the bar.

Have fun!!!

 

[First-timer]

im probably to late but at my partys i serve strawberries injected with rum.... i take a syringe and fill it will rum and inject it till the rum squirts out of the seed holes.... they are very good and i also make jello shots..... replace the cold water with liquor and chill overnight..... also i take marrichino cherries and dump out the juice and replace it with vodca.... and in the summer i soak watermelon with vodca..... maybe for the next party you can try these....

 

[Am_I_There_Yet]

im probably to late but at my partys i serve strawberries injected with rum.... i take a syringe and fill it will rum and inject it till the rum squirts out of the seed holes.... they are very good and i also make jello shots..... replace the cold water with liquor and chill overnight..... also i take marrichino cherries and dump out the juice and replace it with vodca.... and in the summer i soak watermelon with vodca..... maybe for the next party you can try these....

The strawberries sound good, but aren't they messy when you bite into them? I bet they'd be good with coconut rum.

 

[1Prince2Princesses]

The strawberries sound good, but aren't they messy when you bite into them? I bet they'd be good with coconut rum.

mmmm that would be good. Or with a vanilla rum or vanilla vodka.

I am so going to make some of these.

ETA: I just got the best idea... I am going to inject them with Godiva Chocolate Liquer. I'm going to do it TONIGHT. yummmm.

 

[Am_I_There_Yet]

mmmm that would be good. Or with a vanilla rum or vanilla vodka.

I am so going to make some of these.

ETA: I just got the best idea... I am going to inject them with Godiva Chocolate Liquer. I'm going to do it TONIGHT. yummmm.

I was just looking at that stuff the other day at the liquor store.

I decided on my old stand-by, Bailey's Irish Creme.

Forget injecting, or soaking strawberries in it; that stuff is going straight down my throat.

 

[MAKmom]

I wouldn't put 2 different whiskeys in decanters unless you have labels & why bother. The glasses can be the short glasses or tall & thin,

I have a server I always set up as a bar. I do in rows
1) sodas
2) liquor bottles
3) wine bottles
4) wine glasses upside down
5) reg glasses or plastic cups
Ice bucket
Infront I have limes in a bowl & wine glass decoration thingies

Good Red wines: Sterling, Black Stone both Cabernet Sauvignon