The Complete Bartender's Guide

by Dave Broom

Six hundred drinks; professional bartender techniques! This complete guide to cocktails provides recipes and mixing instructions for the most popular mixed drinks, from Absolute Hero to Zombie. In addition to suggestions for stocking a home bar, special features on ten classic cocktails outline their history. And—just in case these wonderful concoctions prove too tempting—there's advice on relieving that hangover!

Genres: Cocktails

400 pages, Hardcover

First published October 14, 2010

Reviews

[Dirk Grobbelaar]

Well now, to be completely honest I don't have any particular opinion on the literary merit of this book. The five-star rating is mostly driven by the fact that it shows both imperial and metric measurements, which actually makes it easy to use. Oh, that and the fact that I now make a mean Cosmopolitan and Sidecar (among other things). The Complete Bartender's Guide also deals with infusions (something I am also dabbling in at the moment) and has some interesting facts about spirits and the region and / or culture from whence they sprung. Now, where did I put that G & T?

[Adrian P]

This is a great little book which distils (ha ha) a lot of knowledge into one volume. Cocktail recipes are there, but what is even more interesting is the short history and background to each spirit. I prefer my edition which doesn't have the lengthy subtitle on the front, though...

This book will encourage you to experiment beyond your usual G & T, and it was also useful for a certain novel writer who needed to check the difference between Bourbon and Tennessee whiskey...