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Getting Started

This is mix shake and pour's step by step guide to getting started as a home mixologist. Get equipped with cocktail making tools, stock your bar, learn the essential mixing techniques, start making cocktails and expand your mixology skills with some further reading.

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Equip Your Bar With the Tools of the Trade

The essential and best bar equipment as recommended by mix shake and pour.

2

Stock Your Bar With Cocktail Ingredients

The mix shake and pour guide to stocking your home bar, with suggestions for the spirits and other ingredients you'll need to start off as a home mixologist.

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Check Out The Top 10 Tips of Cocktail Mixing

Follow mix shake and pour's top 10 mixing tips for making fabulous cocktails every time.

4

Mix Shake and Pour!

Start mixing, shaking and pouring cocktails with mix shake and pour's fifty fantastic cocktails with only four spirits.

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Further Reading

Recommended further reading on cocktails, ingredients and mixology.

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