Help BFC Stock the Bar

Greetings, imaginary and non-imaginary friends alike!  Lady BFC and I have ceased our nomadic lifestyle and have finally landed in a new home.  That’s all very exciting, yes yes, but let’s focus on the important thing–I can FINALLY stock my bar.  My neglected, nearly drained, and yet still-beloved-despite-largely-being-abstract-for-nigh-a-year bar.

For the last 10 months, we have been shuttling between furnished rentals in different cities with our stuff in storage and/or scattered amongst friends’ houses, which has done significant collateral damage to my liquor cabinet. A moratorium was (begrudgingly deemed as rational and accepted as) declared on the purchase of new booze so that we weren’t accumulating more bottles to haul from apartment to apartment and city to city for indeterminate lengths of time. Alas, I had to subside on beer and straight whisky and even had to place limits on receipt of gift beer during the last leg of uncertainty.

But now NOW I am open for business AND our new place has tons of storage space for bottles and glassware (as well as a wine fridge).  I need you to help me fill that space and my gullet.

I am not starting from scratch (I’m not a monster), so I have some base spirits and still have my trusty bottles of cherry heering and creme de violette, but I don’t have, say Sharky’s allspice dram or any chartreuses and such.

So I ask YOU, my fellow commentists, what should I, nay, what NEED I add to my bar and for which concoctions? Consider it a given that I will have luxardo in both liqueur and cherry form, peychaud’s and angostura bitters, bourbon, rye, scotch, tequila, mezcal, and gin.

What I’m really looking for is do I need to buy some sloe gin?  If so, what kind and what can I make beyond a fizz? Is Galliano a nice to have or a never bother? Have you stolen Rikki’s insulated martini shaker and want to send it to me as a housewarming gift? What’s out there that you think I need to know about? And hell, maybe there’s a brand of bourbon, rye, scotch, tequila, mezcal, gin, vodka, amaretto, brandy that I absolutely must try, go ahead and let me know about that.  Who knows, maybe Lady BFC will even let me host an east coast gathering now that I’ve met a sufficient quantity of you in person without being murdered or defenestrated.  To the comments FOR THE SAKE OF KNOWLEDGE.