Better Bars & Liquor Stores, Public Release

I've been irritated at how hard it is to incorporate Juice Fizzes and Seltzers into game play. Like, why can't you order one at a bar?

If you want to run a retail store that sells Juice Fizzes, it's pretty hard to manage unless you craft everything yourself. If you place them out of Build/Buy, the packages are empty, etc, since they need the crafting process to make them usable.

And to be honest, the only practical way to make a lot of Juice Fizzes is to become a farmer to grow all the stuff to have enough ingredients.

But what if you just want to have a fizz at the bar with your friends?

Bar Additions

First, I added some features to Bars. It adds all the Juice Fizzes and Seltzers to the Order Drink menu in commercial venues, as well as coffee and tea. NPCs will order these drinks as well, so you will see them drinking bottles, cans, etc. I also added some Whole Pizzas, so you can order and share a pizza at a bar, as well as some other bar-type food. 

Plus a Carry-Out menu on Bartenders for "package sales" of bottles of nectar, 6-packs of fizzes, boxes of seltzers and whole pizzas. Note that prices from the bar Carry-Out menu are a bit more expensive than usual, since that's usually how that work. OTOH, you're covered for game night if you forget to plan ahead.

Retail Additions

You can't normally put Juice Fizzes or Seltzers in the Retail Fridge (they're missing the RETAIL_FRIDGE inventory type). So, I'm injecting the RETAIL_FRIDGE inventory type to all the Juice Fizz and Seltzer multi-pack tunings so that you can.

To make it easier to sell fizzes as a retailer without having to be a full-time crafter/farmer to make all the products, I inject a menu to the Retail Fridge to Restock it with Juice Fizzes and Seltzers (from a wholesaler...you know). If you own the store it's in, you pay the same as a restocking fee (80% list - perks modifiers).

And my favorite feature, if an NPC owns the retail store, you can visit the store and restock the retail fridge for free! You still need to purchase them from the retail fridge as usual to get at them (at retail prices), but at least you can get something to buy without having to play a retailer just to set the store up.

New Grapes for Dine Out Nectars

You can make all of the six types of nectar already found in the game:

• House Red Nectar

• House White Nectar

• Von Haunt Estate Meloire

• Soft Shadow Avornalino

• Riverblossum Cranerlet Nuala

• Monte Vista Reserve Renoit

• Granite Falls Grappo Blanco

Each type of nectar comes from a particular strain of grape:

• Grape

• Green Grape

• Meloire Grape

• Avornalino Grape

• Renoit Grape

• Cherimola Blan

Seeds for the grapes are available randomly in the Starter Fruit Seed Pack.

Bulk Manufacturing

You can create bulk recipes using the Simsco Canning Factory, including

Kegs of Juice Fizz (Canning Factory recipes): requires 30 fruit, needs refrigeration, can be bottled to produce 6 6-packs of the corresponding Juice Fizz type. Can be sold to bars and restaurants at a higher price using my Food & Beverage Supplier mod.

Nectar Casks (Canning Factory recipes): requires 12 grapes of corresponding type, does not need refrigeration, gets more valuable with age. Can be opened to produce 4 bottles of wine. Can be sold to bars and restaurants at a higher price using my Food & Beverage Supplier mod.

Themed Bars

I've added some lot traits to create different sorts of patrons in different bars (and lounges, etc). It just causes more of the bar patrons to be a certain type. I think I put these under the lot challenges so that they didn't use up a primary lot trait slot.

Cop Bar
The bar gets full of cops, after work. I might create a version specifically for cafes...

Criminal Bar
The bar is frequented by sims in the Criminal career

Art Bar
This is a fun one. It attracts patrons that drink and paint. And drink. There was a Paint Bar around the corner from where I live before the pandemic, and it seemed to be a lot of fun (they sold supplies, etc). Anyway, now you can have one, just remember to place some easels around.

Sports Bar
This is basically a Bro bar. Make sure there are plenty of televisions.

Change Log

• 1.0.0b, 2023-02-12, Initial Patreon Preview

• 1.0.1b, 2023-05-08, Patreon Preview, added Nectar

• 1.0.2b, 2023-05-11, Patreon Preview, bugfixes, correcting labels and ingredient lists

• 1.0.3b, 2023-09-03, Patreon Preview,  added NectarMaker recipes for DineOut nectar, modified nectar bottles to behave the same as Horse Ranch nectar bottles.

• 1.0.4b, 2023-09-24, Patreon Preview, color coded wine casks.

• 1.0.5, 2023-11-05, Public Release

• 1.0.6, 2024-10-22, Patch 1.110 Update

• 1.0.7, 2025-07-01, Patch fix for Enchanted by Nature

• 1.0.8, 2025-07-11, Additional fix after Enchanted by Nature emergency patch to fix exception while opening fruit seed packets

As always, suggestions and or bug reports are welcome. Thanks again for your support!