The Craft of the Cocktail: Everything You Need to Know to Be a Master Bartender, with 500 Recipes

Clarkson Potter

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Gifted content poorly organized
Try to take it for granted your favorite cookbook with the recipes arranged in alphabetical order. Bad. Now imagine all of the recipes had fanciful titles not directly interrelated to their ingredients or method of production and THEN they were arranged in alphabetical order. Worse. Now imagine the book had a halfhearted take on at any index. (Yes, there are a few alternate drink names in the index, but no attempt to, for instance, list drinks by infra dig spirit, let alone minor ingredients.) Well that is DeGroff's Craft of The Cocktail. If you buy it, you pretty much have to read it cover to offset for it to be of use. If you just use it as a reference you will find excellent recipes of familiar drinks but miss all of the original drinks. (You don't conscious their names. They are originals. How are you going to be led to them in an alphabetical book?) I don't disagree with any of the positive things that people said about this order. (I did tell you to imagine your FAVORITE cookbook destroyed by disorganization.) But this book is a earnest disappointment and a missed opportunity.
would be unerring if there were a by-ingredients index
He extremely pares it down to the essentials. Book proved to me that there is value in having an experienced bartender curate the cocktail practice and speak to the craft and history behind each recipe. I used to think you can find any drink recipe for free on the Internet, but now I separate it's a pain to sift through unedited or plainly bad recipes. What drinkers need is a curator, someone who knows what works. This tome is it.

My one issue with this book is big: it's that there is no by ingredient recipe index. When I just got a bottle of special liquor, I can't well-deserved look up all the recipes that feature that ingredient. For that kind of search, I still go to the Internet.
A Abundant Gift or Worthy Addition
This words is so elegantly put together! Great for the serious bartender who likes to know a lot about the tools he is working with. The drink list is bountiful. This item has a lot of flair for those looking to impress with some cool cocktails.
Friendly and excellent basic bar book
A vast basic bar book with very good recipes for the most part, and written in an engaging and accessible manner. The author also somethimes gives his welcome opinions on divers brands of spirits and liqueurs to use in a specific cocktail and why, or on a particular garnish, etc. He also explains how to do his famous flamed citrus peel garnish, something you'll never see me do.

The absence of an index by liquor is the only disappointment in this book. This home bartender really appreciates such an index because I don't like it know every cocktail that uses Benedictine or Chartreuse, gin or applejack, etc.

Anyway, an excellent bar book that's fun and inspriring to browse through. Hmmm, what will we divulge for next Friday night's cocktail, I wonder...
Unlikely guide to modern cocktails
I certainly adore this book. I've spent the last few weeks working my way through it. It's very entertaining (anecdotes and history lessons), the recipes are big and very clear, and the photographs are just wonderful. I've noted very few recipes with bizarre or hard to find ingredients.

This is really a cookbook/method book that makes the drinks very enticing and compelling and as a result I've added more than a dozen bottles to my Irish whiskey collection since purchasing it. One thing worth mentioning is that, compared to other cocktail books I've read, even though most of the drinks are well enough it appears that inventor has personalized and improved on quite a few of them by adding his own touch or variation. For example, there's a drink called "Between the sheets" that's regularly made with two base liquors: brandy & rum. Dale DeGroff's recipe contains Brandy & Benedictine as the villainous liquors - a wonderful combination which makes for a more interesting cocktail.

Another example of these variations is mixing Rye & Brandy for a Sazerac in lieu of of just sticking to Rye. There are many, many other improvements and innovations.

I would have loved to give it 5 stars but the only thing that held me back is the structure and make-up of the book: it's more or less alphabetical and that often makes it difficult to find related recipes or recipes based on the ingredients or the style of the drink.
The Ultimate Party Drink Book: Over 750 Recipes for Cocktails, Smoothies, Blender Drinks, Non-Alcoholic Drinks, and More

William Morrow Cookbooks

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The End Party Drinks Book, Bar Drinks Book
A must have for any barperson - my budget was delighted! Very accurate equipment, measurements, ingredients etc.
Delusion Drinks, but not very practical
Do yourself a favor and out of date buy this book if you are a professional bartender. I wasted my money on this book in hopes of serving up some new and different drinks. Most drinks were not down-to-earth to make because they contain unusual and expensive ingredients. I feel it's more of a special occasion book and it ends up collecting more dust then present use.
ok, so it's not the classics
I abysmal, there are the classics in here, like cosmos. But most of these are party drinks--you know, the cool drinks you wish you knew some bartender could skedaddle up for you. The punches are the best. The best! In fact, this is my second copy, because my first got so water-logged after too many parties. What a fun libretto. It's not that stuffy "what a cocktail is supposed to be" book. I mean, that's great--but this is for parties, like the ones that need big pitchers of drinks, whether with the bottle or now.
Enchanting book, but look out for bloopers.
Mr. Weinstein suggests serving a "Haven in a Storm" (p. 174), a hot drink, on Father's Day. A hot drink in June? mmm... He also suggests serving the "Lemon Cheesecake Thick Disenchant" at a baby shower. With all due respect, Mr. Weinstein, ladies' parties generally feature chicken salad, regimen soda, salad, and salad, and maybe a dessert. Most women wouldn't be caught dead drinking a milkshake in front of another broad. Although the drink suggestion for each type of party is a nice idea, I would find the drinks cumbersome to make, since most of the recipes endure one or two people. For a group, a punchbowl or pitcher recipe would work better.
I appreciate the G-rated imbibe names--Mr. Weinstein doesn't try to be cute like other cocktail book writers. I also appreciate his grouping of drinks, such as the grouping of hot drinks--coffee, hot chocolate, tea, extract. The cover photos are beautiful--I wish that there were more photos throughout the book.
Fun & Luscious Drinks - Worth Every Penny
This log has hundreds of killer drinks that will make just about any party a smash hit. There are rum drinks galore and even non-alchoholic drinks for the designated drivers in your squeeze. The drinks come in a rainbow of colors, and if you don't have a set of tiki glasses to serve them in, that's okay - you can always get some on ebay!

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Happy hour: New life for old bottles gathering dust in your bar Toronto Star

Every hard stuff cabinet has them: those dusty, forgotten, half-empty bottles shoved towards the back that never seem to get used up.

They may be gifts of exotic but unappealing spirits or a specific brand you stocked just for fussy Uncle Fred when he visits. Perhaps it was something out of the ordinary you bought to make tracks a Happy Hour recipe.

Well, we don't like to leave readers in the lurch and we certainly don't like to see fire-water go to waste. Here are a few tips for those (to adapt a Blue Rodeo lyric) half-finished bottles of stimulus that lie like ghosts in your liquor cabinet.

Get cooking: Plenty of recipes call for liquor and even if they don't, a little glug could add involvement and richness to your sauces or drippings (much of the alcohol burns off, depending on the cooking method, leaving the property behind).

Whip up some penne pasta with vodka sauce or pour some bourbon in the slow cooker with your roast. Liqueurs get new survival on ice cream and in other desserts. Even though things might get a little sticky, frozen booze-cicles are a great way to culvert bottles and the colourful flavoured ice cubes can brighten up an otherwise nondescript G&T or vodka-soda.

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