The Bar Book: Elements of Cocktail Technique

Description

Written by renowned bartender and cocktail blogger Jeffrey Morgenthaler, The Bar Book is the only technique-driven cocktail handbook out there. This indispensable guide breaks down bartending into essential techniques, and then applies them to building the best drinks. More than 60 recipes illustrate the concepts explored in the text, ranging from juicing, garnishing, carbonating, stirring, and shaking to choosing the correct ice for proper chilling and dilution of a drink. With how-to photography to provide inspiration and guidance, this book breaks new ground for the home cocktail enthusiast.

Jeffrey Morgenthaler is an award-winning bartender, working since 1996 in everything from neighbourhood taverns and nightclubs to fine restaurants and trendy lounges. Morgenthaler was a blog pioneer. He has been writing about bartending and mixology since 2004 at his website, jeffreymorgenthaler.com. His blog visitors span the range of leading professionals to home cooks looking for guidance in making a good drink. Morgenthaler has also been a regular contributor to Mixology magazine in Germany, Chilled magazine in Canada and to MIX magazine in the United States. His recipes and wisdom have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Playboy and Wired

"...my favorite drinks book of the year is The Bar Book: Elements of Cocktail Technique. Mr. Morgenthaler, a well-regarded Portland, Ore.-based bartender and blogger, notes that a great cocktail requires a combination of three elements: recipe, ingredient and technique. He admits that the first two have been well-plumbed in existing books, then lasers in on the third. Just learning how to make his ingenious but simple "MacGyver Centrifuge" with cheesecloth and a salad spinner to filter fruit juices is nearly worth the cover price." - Wayne Curtis, The Wall Street Journal "An accessible but sophisticated primer that could render the rest of the cocktail library obsolete." - Library Journal "Jeffrey Morgenthaler is our kind of guy; an obsessive practitiioner of lost arts and an inventor in his own right." - from Playboy