Cocktails are back and fresher and tastier than ever. The days when a cocktail meant an over-sweet, garish concoction, garnished with a pineapple chunk and a paper umbrella are over. Today's cocktails are made with fresh, high-quality ingredients with the intention of producing sometimes subtle, sometimes startling flavor combinations. Equally useful behind the counter of a top city bar or on your coffee table at home, The Bartenders Guide is informative, educational, entertaining, and elegantly designed. In a health-and lifestyle-conscious world, this comprehensive volume holds the key to consuming less, but tasting more and is an all-encompassing book for every aspiring bartender. Cocktails are back - fresher and tastier than ever. The days when a cocktail meant an oversweet, garish concoction, garnished with a pineapple chunk and a paper umbrella are over. Today s cocktails feature the freshest, high quality ingredients, and this beautiful hardcover guide will teach you how to mix them all together in combinations that may be subtle, startling, or classic but always delicious. Perfect for the creative at home bartender, this volume holds the secrets to consuming less, but tasting more in today s health conscious world. CHEERS! Features more than 400 cocktail recipes. Illustrated with full color photographs. Also includes sections devoted to: The Tools of the Trade, A Guide to Glasses, the Art of Mixology, and The Bartenders Lexicon of Cocktail Ingredients and Drinks

Transport your glass around the globe with more than 75 cocktail recipes from one of the world's premier bartenders. Grab your glass and let’s go! For over 20 years, Lauren Mote has tended bars and traveled the world, often as one of the only women in a male-dominated industry. She's developed cocktail recipes, sought out new ingredients, and gathered stories along the way. Now, in her first book, Lauren is inviting readers and home bartenders to pack their suitcases and come with her on an international cocktail adventure. Few bartenders can match Lauren’s encyclopedic knowledge of spirits, liqueurs, and tinctures, not to mention her originality for blending them into a perfectly-balanced drink. Once you’ve gotten a handle on the basics of bartending, and gathered your cocktail shaker along with a few other pieces of equipment, you’ll be raising your glass in no time. The recipes are organized by their star ingredients, such as agave, gin, whiskey, rum, vodka, and more. Every drink is given its own designation of standard, mid, low, or zero proof, and you’ll find a whole chapter on nonalcoholic cocktails, because Lauren feels strongly that all drinks should be prepared with care, whether they include alcohol or not. Once you’ve narrowed down the base that you’re in the mood for, let Lauren’s magnetic storytelling and gift of the gab continue to guide you. In each chapter, you’ll find a collection of Mise en Place Recipes to help you build up your bar’s basic ingredients and make Lauren’s techniques your own. With beautiful storytelling and photography, and cocktail recipes you won’t find elsewhere, A Bartender’s Guide to the World is as much a pleasure to read as it is to imbibe from.

From Bartender magazine, the number one publication for the bartending trade and the most respected name in bartending, comes Bartender Magazine's Ultimate Bartender's Guide. Based on the best recipes from bartenders across the nation and compiled by expert bartender Ray Foley, Bartender Magazine's Ultimate Bartender's Guide includes over 1,300 cocktail recipes guaranteed to make any home bartender look like a pro and keep professional bartenders on top of their game. Also included are: Facts on liquor and proof Charts and measures Cutting fruit Names and origins Signature cocktails from across America The cornerstone of the Bartender line, this guide is the definitive drink resource for amateur and professional bartenders everywhere.

“A knowledge-filled tome for true cocktail nerds or those aspiring to be” (Esquire), from one of the world’s most acclaimed bartenders WINNER OF THE JAMES BEARD AWARD • WINNER OF THE TALES OF THE COCKTAIL SPIRITED AWARD® FOR BEST NEW COCKTAIL OR BARTENDING BOOK • IACP AWARD FINALIST Meehan’s Bartender Manual is acclaimed mixologist Jim Meehan’s magnum opus—and the first book of the modern era to explain the bar industry from the inside out. With chapters that mix cocktail history with professional insights from experts all over the world, this deep dive covers it all: bar design, menu development, spirits production, drink mixing technique, the craft of service and art of hospitality, and more. The book also includes recipes for 100 cocktails culled from the classic canon and Meehan’s own storied career. Each recipe reveals why Meehan makes these drinks the way he does, offering unprecedented access to a top bartender’s creative process. Whether you’re a professional looking to take your career to the next level or an enthusiastic amateur interested in understanding the how and why of mixology, Meehan’s Bartender Manual is the definitive guide.

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A handsome and comprehensive bartending guide for professional and home bartenders that includes history, lore, and 115 recipes. The Essential Bar Book is full of indispensable information about everything boozy that’s good to drink. This easy-to-navigate A-to-Z guide covers it all, from the tools of the trade to the history and mythology behind classic and modern drinks, and features 115 recipes for the world’s most important cocktails.