The Bar Book: Elements of Cocktail Technique - Hardcover

Morgenthaler, Jeffrey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 145211384X ISBN 13: 9781452113845

Publisher: Chronicle Books, 2014

Synopsis

Looking to impress your family and guests with your cocktails? Look no further than this cocktail recipe book, The Bar Book - Bartending and mixology for the home cocktail enthusiast.

Learn the key techniques of bartending and mixology from a master: Written by renowned bartender and cocktail blogger Jeffrey Morgenthaler, The Bar Book is the only technique-driven cocktail and bartender book out there. This indispensable guide breaks down bartending into bar essential techniques, and then applies them to building the best drinks.

Over 60 of the best drink recipes: The Bar Book contains more than 60 cocktail recipes that employ the techniques you will learn in this craft cocktail book. Each technique is illustrated with how-to photography to provide inspiration and guidance.

Bartending and mixology techniques include the best practices for:

• Juicing
• Garnishing
• Carbonating
• Stirring and shaking
• Choosing the correct ice for proper chilling and dilution of a drink
• And, much more

If you found PTD Cocktail Book, 12 Bottle Bar, The Joy of Mixology, Death and Co., and Liquid Intelligence to be helpful among bartending and mixology books, you will find Jeffrey Morgenthaler's The Bar Book to be an essential bartender book.

About this title

About the Author

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

From the Back Cover

Bar Book is the only technique-driven cocktail handbook, breaking bartending down into essential techniques that anyone can understand and then applying them to building the best drinks. Like Ruhlman's Twenty, but for home bar enthusiasts, this book teaches techniques, methods and critical thinking. Sixty recipes demonstrate the concepts covered in the text. From renowned bartender and cocktail brain Jeffrey Morganthaler.

Edition details

• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 145211384X
• ISBN 13: 9781452113845
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288