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Take a six-question taste quiz and get a free, personalized Home Bar Atlas: your top pours, a 12-bottle roadmap that never wastes a purchase, and the techniques that make them work. No filler, no 400-recipe database — just the shortest path to a bar that's yours.
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Any honest Aperol substitute works 1:1 — the equal-parts build is forgiving.
Free recipes
Start here — on the house.
Full specs, free forever. All 27 live in your personalized Atlas.
Smoked Old Fashioned
The classic, under glass and smoke — cherry or applewood, 30 seconds, done.
Paper Plane
The equal-parts modern classic — boozy enough for the whiskey drinker, balanced enough for everyone else.
Cosmopolitan
Shaken hard, double-strained, and nothing like the sticky bar-rail version.
St-Germain Spritz
The lightest drink in the Atlas by a wide margin — elderflower, Prosecco, soda.
Spanish Gin-Tonic
The Madrid build: copa glass, cracked pepper, cucumber — aromatics aimed at your nose.
Eastside
Cucumber-and-mint gin sour — the drink that converts vodka people to gin.
Tommy's Margarita
The margarita stripped to agave, lime, and nothing to hide behind.
Daiquiri
Three ingredients, nowhere to hide — the drink that tells you if a bar is any good.
The free personalized guide
The Home Bar Atlas
- Built around your taste — a 60-second profile ranks your top pours and flags your matches through the whole guide
- All 27 recipes, spec-card format — whiskey, agave, rum, gin, vodka, and low-proof, across three collections
- The 12-bottle roadmap — build a bar in three stages where every bottle multiplies your options
- Six pro techniques — demerara syrup, 20:1 saline, smoking a glass, and the rest
- The gift guide — three budget tiers, zero duds
- Yours to keep, free updates as the collection grows
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A personalized PDF, generated for you from a six-question taste quiz. Just tell us where to send it.
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Build a bar
Stage 1 — The Core Six
Six bottles that make more than half the Atlas. The full three-stage roadmap is in the Atlas — preview it here.
- A 100-proof bourbon (bottled-in-bond is the value play)
- A blended Scotch (save the single malt for sipping)
- A floral gin (Hendrick's style)
- A clean vodka
- Sweet and dry vermouth (refrigerate after opening — they're wine)
- Angostura + orange bitters