Students who experiment with mixing drinks at home can use new bartending Web sites to learn to mix their own drinks and play bartender.

Web sites like bartender.com, webtender.com, and the latest, extratasty.com, use a format where users choose what they have in their bars at home and the Web site will give them a list of recipes they can use.

The site Extra Tasty, which began in January 2006, is a community-based Web site that allows users to message and share recipes. The idea for the site began in July 2005 when several employees at SkinnyCorp had a barbeque.

“We were complaining that we had a bunch of booze but didn’t know what to make,” said Jeffrey Kalmikoff of SkinnyCorp, the company that created the Extra Tasty community.

“That’s a good idea because college kids never have a full bar at home. They have bottles left over from parties,” said 23-year-old SF State student and bartender Bonnie Anderson.

Earle Carrion, 24, a senior industrial arts major, used bartender.com to find out the ingredients for a Long Island Iced Tea. He ended up making his own variation at home.

“I did it by mistake,” he said. “I put more base alcohol and more flavoring. I usually go for the ones with the least ingredients.”

Many students had not heard about the bartending sites but said they would definitely try them out and experiment with their mixes and liquors at home.

Jung Lim, 27, a graduate student, keeps gin and vodka on hand because they mix well with just about anything.

“I used to like Jack and Coke a lot,” he said. “In desperate times I’ve been known to mix gin and Coke.”

Others go for slightly more complicated mixings.

“If I want to get blitzed, a Long Island Iced Tea,” said Allegra Mitchell, 23, a music composition major who said she always starts a night out drinking with a gin and tonic to get her stomach ready. “Occasionally wine and tonic.”

Some students were not enthusiastic about making their own mixed drinks at home. Hamilton Ngo, 22, said he was just too lazy to buy alcohol.

"I would rather go to a bar than make it at home," said the senior accounting major.

Anderson, a senior philosophy major, said that when customers ask for recommendations, she suggests drinking beer instead of complicated mixed drinks like at-home bar tending Web sites suggest.

“Sweet drinks are generally higher in alcohol content,” she said. “When people drink mixed drinks they have too many.”