Captivated by the current craze for craft cocktails?
Most every home bartender can make a cocktail or two--a Gin & Tonic, a Martini. But what if you want to be able to make a wide variety of cocktails that rival the best you or your guests can order at your favorite bar?
Mastering Classic Cocktails is for the home mixologist who wants to know more and do better. This book tempts you with lush, full-color photos of the best classic cocktails, with clear steps to follow in the making. Brands of spirits, aperitifs and liqueurs are recommended. And each cocktail comes with a short history of how it was created, comprising a wonderful set of stories to share as you pass around your handiwork.
Mastering Classic Cocktails is the perfect gift for those who love food and drink--or for the host who always offers you a Gin & Tonic, when what you really want is a Boulevardier.
Captivated by the current craze for craft cocktails?
Most every home bartender can make a cocktail or two--a Gin & Tonic, a Martini. But what if you want to be able to make a wide variety of cocktails that rival the best you or your guests can order at your favorite bar?
Mastering Classic Cocktails is for the home mixologist who wants to know more and do better. This book tempts you with lush, full-color photos of the best classic cocktails, with clear steps to follow in the making. Brands of spirits, aperitifs and liqueurs are recommended. And each cocktail comes with a short history of how it was created, comprising a wonderful set of stories to share as you pass around your handiwork.
Mastering Classic Cocktails is the perfect gift for those who love food and drink--or for the host who always offers you a Gin & Tonic, when what you really want is a Boulevardier.
Who doesn't love a good cocktail? I would slurp on one of these fine beverages any time, any place if I could. Only trouble is, I never seem to be blessed with knowing where to start when it comes to making the delightful things.
To use its full title, Mastering Classic Cocktails: Recipes and Techniques for the Home Bartender is, in truth, more a cocktail bible than a cocktail recipe book. C. Townsend Brady brings his experience as a home bartender with a multitude of professional accreditations and connections on the San Francisco bartender circuit) to give a low-down on cocktails for the slightly less experienced.
Covered in this colourful two hundred page guide are not only recipes for all your cocktail favourites but also finer details around the tasting notes and history of each drink, with a wrap around history on the backstory of the cocktail beverages we know and love today. Beautiful shot photography can be found on every page, further enticing readers into rolling up their sleeves and giving these drinks a go.
Mastering Classic Cocktails itself is a good enough book, although personally I feel there is a little too much content to fully enjoy the nuggets of insight. For example, the introductory "brief history of cocktails" comes in at six pages of dense copy and a number of drink recipes contain somewhat extensive information, more than is needed to get the gist of the drink. The result can be at times a bit overwhelming.
Mastering Classic Cocktails is ultimately deep dive publication for cocktail fans, with bonus recipes. It is not entirely clear who the intended audience is, cocktail novices or cocktail purists, but who those who enjoy reading extensively on the subject there is a lot to take away from Townsend Brady's insight.
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