Shrubs: An Old-Fashioned Drink for Modern Times

By Michael Dietsch

"A shrub is exactly what the people who invented the phrase 'slake your thirst' had in mind. A shrub is full of character and variety. The ingredients--fruit, sugar, and vinegar--are as simple as can be. But the variations are seemingly unlimited. It has another superpower: A strong shrub game can help you make the most of bruised or aging summer fruit."

-The New York Times, in an article featuring Shrubs

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 158157388X
• ISBN13: 9781581573886
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Countryman Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.2" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

heavy on history, light on recipes

This book is really, really heavy on the history side of things. Interesting, for sure, but there's just a lot of minutia that felt repetitive and just wasn't interesting to this reader. The recipes that are included are really basic combinations so if you are comfortable with making fruit shrubs already this book might not be what you are looking for. There are only a few 'savory' recipes and not what this reader what hoping to find when it comes to making shrubs with herbs. The instructions are there but I was hoping for something that was more spelled out, like a formal recipe, to get comfortable with then work up to experimenting more with it.