Best Books on Cocktails | Bar Basics
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ค. 2024
- On this episode of Bar Basics, I am going to be sharing with you some of my favorite books to have around the bar to help create any cocktails you may want, or find the tools that you may need. To find the books and tools that I use, check out the links I have left below. Hope you enjoy, cheers!
Books in my library:
Imbibe!: amzn.to/2ARUP0H
Liquid Intelligence: amzn.to/2MrRQNL
Smuggler's Cove: amzn.to/2OmvldN
Regarding Cocktails: amzn.to/2MtzbS1
Meehan's Bartender Manual: amzn.to/2OmhvIi
Punch!: amzn.to/2M3y53f
Bottoms Up! (1928): amzn.to/2OX0jui
Bottoms Up! (1951): amzn.to/2KHYsWG
Fix the Pumps!: amzn.to/2ORQjSM
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I'd love to see a return to the Bar Basics series. After watching many of your videos I'd love to see your take on a few staple alcohols, liqueurs, and syrups that a standard home bar should have. Stuff that doesn't break the bank, and won't go bad super quick. Keep up the great content! My wife thinks you've made me an alcoholic.
I fully agree.
I would love to see a Bar Basics on what you should have in your Bar. Like an Eight bottle Bar, then a 12 bottle Bar, ect.
I have finally decided that I need to clear out my old Bar and make a more refined Bar. Removing all of the 90's cheap Liqueurs and spirits; then replacing them with ingredients for real cocktails.
Just need to know what priority to do the replacing.
Greg, thank you for this video! I love reference material and I will be adding some of these to my library.
Your videos, specifically your passion for this topic, has been an inspiration for how I am approaching certain aspect of my plans for the future. Please, keep doing what you love and sharing that journey with us.
As if I didn’t already love this channel enough, now you’re bringing books in?! This bibliophile is hooked.
Thanks for showing us your books bud! I recommend the Bar Book by Morgenthaler, dives into the technique side of mixology. cheers!
Great episode. Im loving the Curious Bartender set of books at the minute.
I was absolutely not expecting to have any of the books you have, but I do! I've got a vintage copy of Saucier's Bottoms Up because I've somehow started a collection of cookbooks with pinups in them.
Great video, I'll have to look at a few others of these, but I thought that was funny enough to mention. :)
Thanks for this. Definetly gonna be getting some of them.
I bought Smugglers Cove recipe book a few weeks ago and have not regretted it. I love rum, and I love this book!
Got a bit of a bartending beginners question here:
I make drinks on occasion, but when I do its usually make one of the few drinks my dad taught me from his club running days or a simple Cuba Libre, but I'd LOVE to expand my repertoire of cocktails and tasty beverages. I'm a huge fan of cooking and I'm all about flavor, so I'd really like to expand my horizons into the drinking world, but the problem is I don't know where to start.
In your opinion, would would be like... the most ideal first 5 to 10 bottles of booze I can buy that'll give me the most versatility of good cocktail making choices? Any by that token, what are some syrups/other things I should also have on hand to serve the same purpose?
If you get the book: 12 bottle bar, or 5 bottle bar, I’m sure that will help you
Great info as always. Cheers
Great info Greg. I need to pick these up. Just got a book called Lift Your Spirits which is about the cocktail history and culture of New Orleans. Really interesting stuff.
I anxiously await your non-alcoholic series, and I'm glad I stuck around to hear about Fix The Pumps. I find mixology fascinating, but don't enjoy booze. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Great stuff! I would also highly recommend "Schumann's Bar" by the German barkeeper legend Charles Schumann. Tons of recipes, tips for setting up your bar, an introduction to a ton of different ingredients, glasware and so on. It is compact, has a high quality and should be a staple in any bar. I have the German edition, but there is an English edition as well
I got the employees only cocktail guide and that is really good.
I love this!
NIce list! Pick your self up the latest Diffords Guide. The key ingredients page is an incredible tool for a home bartender.
The Dave Arnold book really is great for both beginners and advanced cocktail enthusiasts. The only drawback is that it will make you want to spend tons of money on weird specialty equipment, like a centrifuge.
this is so true.. I started looking for a centrifuge but quickly learned it was a bit expensive for home use lol
Though I like cocktails I'm pretty much a "tea totaler" when it comes to booze because I like sweet drinks vs the more manly sugar free drinks such as a Martini. I'm now in the process of buying my own copy of "Fix the Pumps" based on your review. I may not become a bartender renown but I could be one hell of a old time soda jerk.
awesome books greg, the irony is I use your channel as my go to cocktail guide. It comes full circle!
I'm keen to give more tiki drinks a go. its an area very few of us delve into i think.
Is there some sort of connection between you having "the savoy cocktail book" and your theme song being "the savoy special" or just a really awesome coincedence?
cheers mate,
matt
Sippin Safari and Potions of the Carribean by Beachbum Berry are definitely must-haves.
Books from Jeffrey Morgenthaller, Jim Meehan or other bartenders have mainly repeating information apart from the recipes, of course. The book that I found really innovative was Zen & tonic. I do recommend for those who want to bring their cocktails to another level. Also I found interesting to read pastry books and other books about cooking. Really fun stuff but what's important, many things can be used in drinks from cooking
Two that I have that you might consider are Art Of The Bar by Jeff Hollinger and Rob Schwartz and The Bar Book by Jeffrey Morgenthaler. The latter is especially interesting, as it focuses on techniques of handling your ingredients, rather than just the ingredients themselves. Like, it has an entire chapter on how to source and juice citrus.
Jeffrey Morgenthaler's 'The Bar Book' should definitely be in your collection. :)
Recent subscriber here! Your cocktail videos are absolutely stunning. Sorry if you've already covered this somewhere else, but do you happen to have a video on your filming setup? (I tried searching but couldn't find anything) Would love to learn more about your filming process.
I love all of this including the outro songs
Yay!!! More Karaoke in the park! :-D
Oh...and the books were cool, too ;-)
I'd highly recommend Potions of the Caribbean, Death & Co, The Bar Book
I'm a big fan of Duggan McDonnell's "Drinking the Devil's Acre" and its exploration of San Francisco cocktail history. (Yeah, I'm late to this party, but I'm a tech worker with a busy life...) Anyway, Devil's Acre has great cocktail history along with some great drink recipes, and others like Meyer lemon marmalade and beef tea. I highly recommend that you check it out.
The Flavor Bible and The Bar Book are great additions.
Useful!
in no particular order. my top 5: The Official Mixers Manual - Patrick Gavin Duffy, The Bartender's Bible - Gary 'Gaz' Regan, ,The Craft of the Cocktail - Dale DeGroff, Bartending for Dummies - Ray Foley, Trader Vic's Book of Food and Drink , these selections are probably more 'professional bartender' forward, but easy reads for home/novice mixers. cheers!
Nice list! I'll put some on my amazon list, so I may have an, uh, intoxicating library myself one day.
Just bought "Intoxica!", not on your list but I guess it's a start.
Ironbooze it's a good one.
When I saw how you made the Iron Price. I would like to suggest you make your own recipe on "Estus" from the video game "Dark Souls". What it does in the game is replenish some HP and it gets refilled when you sit in a bonfire. Its got a yellow and some red color in it. Hope you see this =D
Awh man, how can you not have a Difford's guide in your collection! Its THE cocktail bible old and classic, with over 3000 cocktails! I HIGHLY recommend it! I got the 12th edition, and its amazing.
Great vids. How about posting a PDF of your recipes on your blog?
I have 12 Bottle Bar but I noticed it wasn’t in your collection, have you ever seen it?
Oh boy, are you reading my mind? I was searching for a Cocktail bock, after i watched a Documetary about Schumann, a famous german barkeeper.
I'm a bartender for 2 years .. which one I should start with ?
Thanks
Just got my copy of Smugglers Cove, was your printed upside down as well? the cover is one way and the pages the other xD
Would love to see more soda jerk content
I'm surprised that Schuhmann's Bar isn't in your collection. Charles Schuhmann is a legend in the bartending business. Anyway, now that I know you too own the Smuggler's Cove book, I pretty much have to get myself a copy. I really enjoy the Tiki culture and drinks, so why not? :D
I assume his books aren't as prominent outside of Germany but I wholeheartedly agree. It is kind of my cocktail bible. Has everything you need, is nice and compact and is of such a high quality. Worth every penny!
finally!!
If you've never read the Fine Art of Mixing Drinks by David Embury...highly recommended, not so much for the recipes but for Embury's exquisitely snooty prose.
Seconded. It's both the most entertaining, and least useful, cocktail book I own.
That's a great way of putting it. I find his martini quaffable, but his take on the sidecar...not so much.
You should checkout Molly Wellman’s book Handcrafted Cocktails. You get her book on Amazon us d for just a few bucks. Like you she is self taught and loves the history of cocktails. She is now one of Cincinnati’s top mixologists.
You need to get some of Jeff "Beachbum" Berry's books. He's the tiki version of Wondrich; if not more dedicated into finding the history and secret recipes of tiki. Without the Bum we wouldn't have Martin Cate.
I haven't been to either Latitude 29 (Berry's) in New Orleans or Smuggler's Cove but cannot wait to visit them.
If you want to learn a lot about tiki but in video format, I recommend the channel 'Distinguished Spirits'. They are great videos with great recipes and great history included.
I also recommend Martin Cate's videos that he did for ChowHound.
P.S. love you greg 😚
P.P.S. For tiki i also recommend all 3 volumes of Kevin Kahuna's Tiki Cocktails and Professor Cocktail's Zombie Horde which is an entire book dedicated to zombie cocktails
Dude, you gotta go to lattitude 29 in NOLA! One of my favorite bars.
I could see one about Cocktails in Movies or some-such? Looks like you skipped it. Might have been uninteresting so it was edited out, but I was looking forward to seeing what that was the whole video! Haha
The drunken botanist
Im only starting with the book. But for now it seems really good and different.
Smuggler's Cove + book = Hardy Boys in my mind.
Cocktail Codex, Death & Co, The Bar Book, Bartenders Manual, The Essential Bartenders Guides, The Joy of Mixology (my favorite) The Craft of Cocktail ( tied with Joy of mixology). All these books are super good. Now, I bought Liquid Intelligence and it was not for me, in my opinion, a bit too much of everything for no reason. Imbibe! Wow, I had to buy it out of respect for history, but Jesus that book is so heavy it bores the crap out of me. I won't return it but I don't know if I will ever thoroughly read it. I hope someday I'm able to see and agree with the rest of the people who praise it so highly. Nonetheless, respect to the legend Jerry Thomas.
What about the Death and Co. book?
I know exactly where your prof name and pic are from and I applaud you sir
Excellent modern reference book. I use it a lot.
+1 for Death and Co.
Absolutely agreed. A must for me.
Why no The Bar Book by Jeffrey Morgenthaler?
What about Dale DeGroffs The Craft of The Cocktail? Are you planning on buying it? :D
GeneralKischka I would like to know the anserw for that question aswell
Not really an essential book in my opinion. I own it mostly as a tribute to Dale, and I can't remember having consulted it after reading through it the first time. It was probably a useful guide back when it was first published, but it covers mostly basic techniques and recipes, i.e. nothing you don't already know if you have dabbled a little in cocktails already.
ser Exactly that makes it essential since it is an introduction to it.
For anyone who starts mixing it is a great guide
This is awesome!
Greg, do you like video games?
If so maybe you could create a cocktail inspired by a game, like blue potion from Zelda or plasmids/vigors from bioshock?
Ah books :D
No "Mr. Boston's"?
Published in 1935, in print into the 2000s, and still available online.
Every bar should have one stashed under it, near the roll-a-dex.
Brooklyn nine nine pilsners?
Any good books about tequila and mezcal?
tdizzle 4shizzle The Mezcal Experience by Tom Bullock. Everything you could need to know on the spirit
It's time to update the book collection (:
"My books on cocktails" not "the best books on cocktails". Very interesting selection nonetheless.
What? No Mr. Boston? How else is a guy to make thin miserable drinks?
Every time I hear the words soda jerk I imagine a guy who becomes a total arsehole after imbibing seltzer.
This is the 75th video.