From Alcohol to Zombies via Harvey Wallbangers and Pina Coladas, the A-Z of Cocktails covers everything you need to know about making deliciously mixed drinks at home. This little book contains a wide selection of recipes, from well-known traditional recipes as well as creative, quirky variations. It also includes guidance on blending techniques and the best kind of equipment to use, alongside other handy hints. The A-Z of Cocktails is a kitchen staple for drink-making novices and experienced mixologists alike. The A-Z series is a fresh and fun collection of books offering readers a wealth of information on a wide range of subjects. These essential practical guides are packed to bursting with useful tips and insider knowledge, in a handy easy to digest format.

American tavern owners caused a sensation in the late eighteenth century when they mixed sugar, water, bitters, and whiskey and served the drink with rooster feather stirrers. The modern version of this "original cocktail," widely known as the Old Fashioned, is a standard in any bartender's repertoire and holds the distinction of being the only mixed drink ever to rival the Martini in popularity. In The Old Fashioned, Gourmand Award--winning author Albert W. A. Schmid profiles the many people and places that have contributed to the drink's legend since its origin. This satisfying book explores the history of the Old Fashioned through its ingredients and accessories -- a rocks glass, rye whiskey or bourbon, sugar, bitters, and orange zest to garnish -- and details the cocktail's surprising influence on the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and the Broadway musical scene, as well as its curious connection to the SAT college entrance examination. Schmid also considers the impact of various bourbons on the taste of the drink and reviews the timeless debate about whether to muddle. This spirited guide is an entertaining and refreshing read, featuring a handpicked selection of recipes along with delicious details about the particularities that arose with each new variation. Perfect for anyone with a passion for mixology or bourbon, The Old Fashioned is a cocktail book for all seasons.

You cannot separate Russians from their vodka or vodka from Russia. For over 600 years, this proud Slavic culture has - for good or ill - been inextricably bound up with their national drink. This has been expressed in literature, song, politics, history and every aspect of popular culture. In this comprehensive, quixotic and addictive book, Edwin Trommelen explores all facets of the Russian obsession with vodka. Peering chiefly through the lenses of history and literature, Trommelen offers up an appropriately complex and rich portrait. In addition, most all of the hundreds of wonderful quotes from literature, theater and poetry are presented in both their Russian original and English translation, making this also a useful guide to improving one's Russian through the lens of this ancient drink.

"New Brewing Lager Beer" has been completely revised and expanded to include more on craft-brewing techniques and more information specific to ale brewing. Greg Noonan, one of the best-known craft brewers in America, guides you through an advanced discussion on how to produce high-quality beer every time you brew. This advanced all-grain reference book is recommended for intermediate, advanced, and professional small-scale brewers. This book should be part of every serious brewer's library.

Drink & Tell is just that -- a cocktail historian's tour of Boston, a city he knows and loves. Included are over 500 drink recipes created and served by more than 40 bars and restaurants in Boston. While there are plenty of recipes inside from heavy hitters like Eastern Standard and Drink who have basked in well-deserved international attention, the author also hopes to bring to light the other establishments which have crafted amazing drinks through the years to help make Boston a cocktail town. Drink & Tell is perfect for the home bartender, for the Boston barfly looking for a memento, and for trade bartenders near and far for inspiration on improving the cocktail scenes in their cities.

With over 13yrs experience David Vancil shares all of the techniques that he has learned while perfecting his bartending skills in Who's Your Bartender: The Secret Techniques and Basics of Bartending. From Cultivating regular customers to making newcomers feel at home, these techniques offer a bird's eye view of how to become a successful bartender. Vancil Shares his vast knowledge of the ways of a successful bartender as well as the recipes for the wide variety of drinks that a bartender must know and be able to make quickly and efficiently. From classic drinks like martinis and boiler makers to delicious non-alcoholic drinks, this guide presents recipes for hundreds of real, essential, drinks that can be ordered anywhere. Vancil also provides need to know memorization techniques that will help any bartedner remember hundreds of drinks, and recipes in an easy-to-read format. Bartending offers the opportunity to work anywhere in the world. This handy reference guide can help you become a successful bartender. "David Vancil is amongst one of the most enthusiastic, passionate and skilled bartenders I have had the pleasure to work with since my move to Los Angeles from Italy in 2006. His attention to detail and knowledge of both spirits, wine & mixology, make his book a must read for anyone interested in the beverage industry." Diego Meraviglia 4th level certified Sommelier AIS Vice-President, Fourcade & Hecht Wine Selections David Vancil is not just a bartender but an Alchemist who puts the true meaning of "Spirits" in every drink -J.D. Amoro Estrill -Artist "I've never experienced bar service at the level of David Vancil's-he is THE BEST. There is a reason he is called The Sensei When he is behind the bar, it"s like a magician with his cape on. You don't even see his hands moving then abracadabra you've got a drink in your hand. And it's either your favorite drink, or your new favorite drink That's how he works. And he brings this level of service and integrity each and every night. I would take anything David says straight to the bank when it comes to the history of bar service, or the modernization of it. "-Benjamin Yiapan-Fitness Consultant

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BraaiKonings van die Kaapse Wynlande vier die beste Suid-Afrikaanse gasvryheid. Hierdie inspirerende maar maklike braai resepte van plaaslike persoonlikhede in die Kaapse Wynlande word gekomplimenteer deur wyne wat deur deskundiges voorgestel word. Hierdie mans en vroue, wat net so vaardig is by die braaivleisvuur as in die wynkelder, deel hulle geheime resepte en braai wenke vir die sappigste, geurigste geregte. Geniet Jan "Boland" Coetzee se lamsribstuk saam met elegante Pinot Noir. Smul heerlik aan Schalk Burger Sr. se gebraaide Kaapse wildevark saam met 'n Pinotage-gebaseerde rooiwyn of Paul Cluver Jr. se "can-can"-hoender in die Weber en 'n glas verfrissende Chardonnay. Dan praat ons nie eers van die gemsbok filet wat in jou mond smelt met 'n glas volronde Shiraz nie. Waag jou hand aan Elma Bruwer se klassieke boerewors resep vir 'n sappige treffer by jou volgende braai. Of wat van snoek wat oor warm kole gerook is, kreef op strand gebraai of 'n waterblommetjie potjie wat in ‘n tradisionele giet ysterpot prut-saam met al die wenke wat noodsaaklik is vir 'n koninklike maaltyd? Met baie idees vir opwindende slaaie en bykosse, brood, kaasborde, heelvrugtekonfyt en nageregte, sal hierdie versameling buitengewone resepte sekerlik inspirasie bied vir die beste braai ooit!

'A handbook of classic cocktails essential to every host's repertoire' Vogue Want to master the art of mixology from home? Of all the skills you might acquire in life, learning how to make exquisite cocktails is the least likely to be a waste of your time. In this classic guide to cocktailing, writer, columnist and founder of 'The Spirits' newsletter - "a book club but for cocktails" - Richard Godwin offers over 200 delicious, inventive and accessible recipes. Beautifully written, laugh-out-loud funny and full of practical good sense as well as fascinating historical snippets, this little book contains everything that an amateur needs to up their cocktailing game - and increase the sum of human happiness. 'Simple to navigate and fun to read, it's the only book I reach for on a Friday evening. The weekend starts here.' Felicity Cloake 'I truly love this book. No one writes about drinks like Richard Godwin - I enjoy his prose as much as anything in the glass.' Marina Hyde 'The best, most elegant and most sparkling' cocktail book' Esquire

Juices and Smoothies: A selection of fruit and vegetables, a juicer or a blender and a dash of inspiration are all you need to whip up a dazzling array of smoothies and juices packed with flavour and the nutrients your body needs.

Beverages provides thorough and integrated coverage in a user-friendly way, and is the second of an important series dealing with major food product groups. It is an invaluable learning and teaching aid and is also of great use to the food industry and regulatory personnel.

An innovative, captivating tour of the finest gins and distilleries the world has to offer, brought to you by bestselling author and gin connoisseur Tristan Stephenson. The Curious Bartender's Gin Palace is the follow-up to master mixologist Tristan Stephenson's hugely successful books, 'The Curious Bartender' and 'The Curious Bartender: An Odyssey of Malt, Bourbon & Rye Whiskies'. Discover the extraordinary journey that gin has taken, from its origins in the Middle Ages as the herbal medicine 'genever' to gin's commercialization and the dark days of the Gin Craze in mid 18th Century London, through to its partnership with tonic water - creating the most palatable and enjoyable anti-malarial medication - to the golden age that it is now experiencing. In the last few years, hundreds of distilleries and micro-distilleries are cropping up all over the world, producing superb craft products infused with remarkable new blends of botanicals. In this book, you'll be at the cutting-edge of the most exciting developments, uncovering the alchemy of the gin production process and the science of flavour before taking a tour through the most exciting distilleries and gins the world has to offer. Finally, put Tristan's mixology skills into practice with a dozen spectacular cocktails including a Purl, a Rickey and a Fruit Cup.

Already responsible for giving jelly a 21st-century makeover, Sam and Harry focus their attention on the perennially popular cocktail, the most sophisticated form of drink. But of course with an extra special twist. Bompas & Parr take us on a rollercoaster journey through the wonderful world of sours, martinis, old-fashioneds, punches and highballs. Classics, new interpretations of old favourites and crazy concoctions are all to be expected, but they also provide advice on the all-important presentation, the ingredients and getting the ice just right.

Veterans of successful alcoholic adventures such as Alcoholic Architecture (a walk in cloud of breathable G&T) and the Architectural Punchbowl (a Robert Adam building flooded with 4 tonnes of Courvoisier Punch enough for 25,000 people!), Bompas & Parr are perfectly placed to ensure you create a range of extraordinary cocktail drinks to remember.

Bompas & Parr s paramount aim is to demystify cocktails and produce an easy to use functional cocktail book for the home all you need to do is master a few techniques, assemble a few ingredients and away you go; but as to be expected from them, the recipes walk a fine line balancing their signature, attention-grabbing but considered approach, while offering some predictably unpredictable options. More than 50 recipes are split into chapters on Gin, Whisky, Rum, Vodka, Tequila, Brandy, Champagne cocktails and Punches, with additional chapters covering Cocktail basics; Cocktail techniques; and Glassware.

Riesling is the world's seventh most-planted white wine grape variety and among the fastest growing over the past twenty years. It is a personal favorite of many sommeliers, chefs, and other food and wine professionals for its appealing aromatics, finesse, and minerality; for its uncanny ability to reflect terroir; and for its impressive versatility with cuisines of all types. It is stylistically paradoxical, however. Now usually made dry in most of Europe and Australia, and assumed dry by most German consumers, Riesling is made mostly sweet or lightly sweet in North America and is believed sweet in the American marketplace irrespective of origin. Riesling is thus consequently - but mistakenly-shunned by the mainstream of American wine drinkers, whose tastes and habits have been overwhelmingly dry for two generations. Riesling Rediscovered looks at the present state of dry Riesling across the Northern Hemisphere: where it is grown and made, what models and objectives vintners have in mind, and what parameters of grape growing and winemaking are essential when the goal is a delicious dry wine. John Winthrop Haeger explores the history of Riesling to illuminate how this variety emerged from a crowded field of grape varieties grown widely across northern Europe. Riesling Rediscovered is a comprehensive, current, and accessible overview of what many consider to be the world's finest and most versatile white wine.

This title covers everything from the Singapore Sling and the Cosmopolitan to the Martini, with 565 drinks, juices and smoothies shown in more than 1000 photographs. It is a complete guide to making 565 cocktails, juices and smoothies using spirits, liqueurs, wine, beer, mixers, fruits, vegetables, milk, cream and ice cream. It includes all-time classics such as the Gin Sling, Screwdriver and Buck's Fizz, more unusual drinks such as the Barbarella, Blue Hawaiian and Loch Ness, and luxurious juices and smoothies such as the Humzinger, Iced Mango Lassi and Purple Haze. It features an illustrated directory of all the basic types of alcohol and mixers available, including both alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, plus a guide to cocktail-making equipment, glasses and garnishes. It includes a useful glossary of drinks terminology to help you tell the difference between a julep and a smash, a fizz and a frappe, a cup and a punch. This authoritative reference is an essential guide to cocktails, juices and smoothies, and how to mix them. It contains an overview of the different types of alcohol and mixers available: spirits such as gin, vodka and rum; liqueurs such as amaretto, Tia Maria and Chartreuse; wine, champagne and fortified wines; beer and cider; and syrups, coffee and chocolate. It includes classic cocktails going back to the America of the 19th century, drinks from the great jazz era of the 1920s, famous blends that were revived in the 1980s, and the brand-new beverages being drunk in the trendsetting bars of today. Every drink you've ever wanted to try is in this exciting volume.

Men may have their little black book of cocktails - but now women have one just for them, in feminine pink, fashionably designed, and with a lovely textured cover embossed with red foil. What better way for busy girls to entertain than by using this fabulous little gem to help spark up their marvelous social lives... along with setting the right mood for that little hottie that is coming over? Inside, gals will find witty quotes and words of wisdom as well as fabulous drinks from Cosmos to Appletinis to other fun and exciting and easy to make shots, drinks, and cocktails. Best-selling girlfriend expert Jennifer Worick, co-author of "The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Dating & Sex," provide an entertaining introduction.

Get the skinny on your morning joe Do you swear by your morning jolt of caffeine but are hard-pressed to tell a siphon from a slow dripper? No problem: just order a fresh copy of Coffee For Dummies for a smooth blend of fun facts and practical advice to give an extra shot of flavor to your appreciation of the second-most valuable commodity on planet Earth--and filter out all that excess grind in your knowledge. This warm and welcoming serving from passionate coffee guru Major Cohen--a Specialty Coffee Association certified instructor, and now retired highly respected former Starbucks coffee educator and program manager--takes you on a rocket-fueled journey from the origins of the liquid bean's popularity to best ways to prepare and enjoy coffee in your own home. You'll learn how to evaluate the advantages of different coffee styles and makers, and how even the smallest detail--varietal, roast type, texture--can influence how good that cupped lightning tastes on your tongue. Evaluate different roasts or brews Navigate menus for the best deals Learn how to speak "coffee" and order your half-cap-low-fat-no-sugar-add-whip with confidence Save money with the best store apps Meet some of the unknown pioneers of coffee that have made our coffee world of today See how you might think bigger about your coffee spend changing the world The average American spends over $1000 on their daily brain juice every year: why not hire Coffee For Dummies as your personal barista and get more for your money--and from each invigorating sip.

This book belongs on the shelf of every single serious cocktail enthusiast. The author reveals long forgotten methods of producing cocktails from over a century of his family's business in the liquor trade (before, during and after Prohibition) and extensive experiences traveling around the world spanning from Polynesia to Eastern Europe. Nearly a hundred recipes that have never before been published, including secrets from some of the most expensive and exclusive bars in the world (past and present) personally collected over decades - yet this is not simply a recipe book. What makes this most worthwhile is the detailed and thoughtful explanation behind several original methods of producing extraordinary flavors. The section on complexing agents alone is worth the price of this book. As a bonus, there is an appendix with dozens of authentic 1928 recipes for the manufacture of interesting and obsolete cordials and spirits.

Complete reprint of the rare classic wine book 'WINE and the WINE TRADE," written by Andre L. Simon and originally published in 1921. Dedicated to all wine connoisseurs. For more vintage books about wines and drinks feel free to take a look at: www.VintageCocktailBooks.com