Your bar’s distributor may have a special, there may have been a mistake when the order was placed or over stock could just be remnants of a special occasion. Every bar ends up with a larger than desired quantity of certain drinks, periodically. It is your job to move them. Management may give you a game plan to start with, but ultimately you have to sell it. Here are a few ideas for pushing overstocked alcohol. Run a special. This helps if you have a white board or black board, to alert patrons that there is a drink special. List the alcohol and suggest drinks. Say you have too much Rum, print RUM SPECIAL! List a few easy rum drinks like Rum Runners, Daiquiris, Pina Coladas and so on. List a discount price, or the difference. Listing the difference, say $1 off, is better than the price. People want to know how much of a discount they are getting. Make up a new drink and play it up. Buy one for a customer and get their take on it. Offer it to every customer who walks in. Just make sure that this drink is primarily made up of the overstock. When all else fails, make jello shots with it! When all else fails, make jelly shots with it. But making jelly shots in a bar is yet another thing that requires a responsible service of alcohol certificate, so go online and get yours today.