Whiskey is booming in popularity. Craft distilleries are making whiskeys not just from corn, rye and malted barley but also from grains such as quinoa and triticale. Cocktail lovers embrace the earthy, bitter, savoury notes from “brown” spirits. Here Michael Dietsch offers a little bit of history and a lot of delicious recipes—each of which has a story. This book is a pleasure to read and use.

Michael Dietsch took the mixology community by storm when he brought back a popular drink from colonial times, the shrub. Not the green, leafy kind that grow in the ground, but a vintage drink mixer that can be spiked with alcohol or prepared as a soda. Drinkers, bartenders and the media embraced the book. This new edition features a foreword by Paul Clarke, the Executive Editor of Imbibe magazine and author of The Cocktail Chronicles. Here is the definitive guide to making and using shrubs.