Drinking Distilled: A User's Manual [A Cocktails and Spirits Book]

By Jeffrey Morgenthaler

Book Overview

An opinionated, illustrated guide for cocktail beginners, covering the basics of spirits plus making and drinking cocktails, written by celebrated craft cocktail bartender Jeffrey Morgenthaler. This easy-reading, colorful introduction for cocktail beginners, with approximately 100 succinct lessons on drinking culture, spirits, and cocktail making, is delivered in the pithy, wry style Morgenthaler is known for in his instructional videos and writing for beverage publications. Novices will learn how to order a drink, how to drink with the boss, how to drink at the airport, and more. Twelve perfect starter recipes--ranging from a Dry Gin Martini to a Batched Old-Fashioned (perfect for the flask)--plus thirty original illustrations round out this distillation for new enthusiasts.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399580557
• ISBN13: 9780399580550
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Ten Speed Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.6" x 8.7"