5 Best Alcohols from airasia shop for your Home Bar
If you’re thinking of starting a home bar, you’ll need some of the best drinks available on the market. Now, you can get the best variety of alcoholic drinks at unbeatable prices from airasia shop
From whiskeys like Chivas Regal Extra and Aberfeldy 12 Years Old Gold Bar Edition to gins like Roku Gin and Sakurao Gin, you’ll find them all at airasia shop.
Get unbeatable discounted duty-free prices that are between 40 and 50% cheaper than regular prices and between 5 to 10% cheaper than other duty-free shops.
At airasia shop, you can also have your orders delivered to your seat in-flight or your home when you fly international or to a duty-free destination. Alternatively, you can choose to pick it up at the airport before or after you fly.
Let your home bar idea take flight with whiskey, gin, vodka, rum and wine, and then build on with more varieties of liquor as you go. It also helps to get a few bottles of other unique liqueurs like Baileys Irish Cream and Benedictine DOM for your guests who don’t like hard liquor.
A stocked home bar also needs cocktail essentials like lime juice, orange juice, ginger beer, orange bitters, simple syrup (sugar and water), soda water and ice cubes. And don’t forget accessories like a jigger, cocktail shaker, bar spoon, wine glasses and cocktail glasses.
If all this seems a bit daunting, or if you’re not good at making mixed drinks, worry not. With a little bit of practice and patience, you’ll soon be an expert at classic cocktails like Mojitos, Screwdrivers, Moscow Mules, Pina Coladas, vodka martinis and sangrias.
Whiskeys
Every good home bar needs a bottle of whiskey. Top on the list are single malts like Monkey Shoulder, Macallan, Ballantines and Glenlivet - all available at airasia shop.
If you’re a fan of rye whiskey, check out popular American brand Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Straight Rye Whiskey. Take a sip and savour the spicy rye notes that are complemented with hints of vanilla and oak.
American bourbon lovers should definitely add a bottle of Jim Beam Honey to their list. With notes of caramel, vanilla, oak and a sweet honey finish, this bourbon is great in cocktails or simply enjoyed as a sipping whiskey.
Cognac lovers must include Hardy Legend cognac to their list of drinks. This aromatic drink has a beautiful long finish and boasts notes of orange marmalade, vanilla and coffee. For fans of blended scotch, airasia shop offers Johnnie Walker XR 21 Year Old Scotch Whiskey and Dewar’s 15 Year Old. For those not in the know, blended scotch is whiskey that is made of 2 or more grain or malt whiskies from 2 or more distilleries.
Enjoy your whiskey simply on the rocks or turn it into delectable whiskey cocktails like Whiskey sour, Old fashioned or Mint julep.
Gins
With different varieties of gins popping up from every country imaginable, it’ll be almost a crime not to have a bottle of gin in your collection. Gin gets its name from the Dutch word genever and it was first produced in the 17th century by Dutch professor Franciscus Sylvius as an inexpensive medicine for diuresis. It soon became popular as a beverage and was later brought to England by soldiers returning from the Netherlands.
airasia shop offers Roku Gin from Japan, a good initiation for those who have not tried the liquor. Roku is the Japanese word for the number ‘6’ as the spirit comprises 6 botanicals - sakura flower, sakura leaf, sencha tea, gyokuro tea, sansho pepper and yuzu peel. These botanicals are then blended with juniper, coriander, cinnamon and cardamom seeds for a unique multi-layered spirit.
From Drumshanbo in Ireland, comes a unique gin that combines fine oriental botanicals like Chinese lemon, kaffir lime, oriental lime with gunpowder tea, thus giving it the name Drumshanbo Gunpowder Irish Gin.
Brookie’s Byron Dry Gin is a London Dry gin that comes from Byron Bay in Australia. The drink contains 25 botanical extracts including Byron sunrise finger limes, aniseed myrtle, cinnamon myrtle, macadamia, river mint and raspberry, native to the Northern Rivers region of Byron Bay.
Those who enjoy cocktails will love the many gin-based creations like the Tom Collins, Negroni, Gimlet and Gin Rickey, but of course, the most popular gin drink is the gin and tonic.
Vodkas
A bottle of vodka is another must-have for your home bar. You can’t go wrong with a bottle of Grey Goose. Produced in France, this vodka boasts floral and citrus notes with soft, sweet and rounded texture with hints of almond.
For a taste of Russian vodka, try Beluga Vodka Noble, a premium vodka made from malt spirits. Take a sip and taste the crisp floral and wheat notes that nicely complement the fresh notes in the aroma.
Both Grey Goose and Beluga Vodka Noble are available for purchase at airasia shop. If you’re not sure how to drink your vodka, apart from having it neat, it is also great for cocktails like screwdrivers, bloody Marys, martinis and cosmopolitans
Rums
Known as the golden liquid for its rich amber colour, rum is said to have been first distilled in sugarcane plantations in Barbados around 1650. Subsequently, the popularity of this sugarcane based liquor spread in the Caribbean with countries like Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands distilling light rums in the 19th century.
For your home bar, choose to purchase either white rum or dark rum from airasia shop. White rums are aged in stainless steel barrels and are filtered to give them a clear finish. Because white rums are milder in flavour, they are popularly used in cocktails like mojitos, daiquiris and pina coladas.
Dark rums, meanwhile, are matured in charred oak barrels, and have deeper flavours and overtones. Sometimes caramel is added to give it a darker, richer hue. Dark rum is best enjoyed on the rocks with a slice of lime, neat or more commonly, as a rum and coke.
Wines
To complete your home bar, you’ll need a few bottles of wine. The most common ones are red and white wines. Under the red category, popular options include Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon Syrah (Shiraz).
Try the Miguel Torres Santa Digna Syrah, a Chilean wine with notes of small black fruits, violet and red currant with an underlying vanilla flavour. Another great red option is the Wolf Blass Yellow Label Shiraz 2016. This aromatic medium-bodied Australian wine has subtle notes of cedar spice with flavours of berry fruits and creamy oak.
Meanwhile Riesling, Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc are popular varieties of white wines. From Clare Valley in Australia, the Leasingham Classic Clare Riesling 2014 has wonderful aromas of concentrated lime with hints of lemon blossom resulting in spicy and zesty citrus flavours.
There are also rose wines that boast a stunning pink hue and moscatos that are made of muscat grapes from Europe. Moscatos are usually sweeter and have distinct floral and fruity notes.
In recent years, fortified wines have gained popularity among drinkers. Fortified wines are wines that have been infused with a distilled spirit like brandy. Dry vermouth, sweet vermouth, sherry and marsala wines are all types of fortified wines.
You can also make cocktails with your wine. The most popular wine cocktail is possibly the sangria. Brandy, simple syrup, soda water and orange liqueur like Triple Sec are added to a bottle of red wine. Along with slices of orange, lemon and strawberries, it makes for a refreshing afternoon drink.
