Cocktail Codex: Fundamentals, Formulas, Evolutions [A Cocktail Recipe Book]

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In Cocktail Codex, these experts reveal for the first time their surprisingly simple approach to mastering cocktails: the “root recipes,” six easily identifiable (and memorizable!

Replace the high-proof whiskey in an Old-Fashioned with a larger quantity of low-proof amontillado sherry, and swap muddled orange slices for the bitters, you have a Cobbler.

I bartended on and off throughout university to make ends meet and mostly fumbled my way through various cocktails. From techniques to mixing different ingredients to playing around with syrups and bitters this book is the best! If you pick up the book, there’s a sister recipe that switches out the Chartreuse for Absinthe that I’m looking forward to trying out as well.

Part of this excitement was because I just realized with our early spring here in Portland we actually had some mint growing in the garden, and that was the only ingredient I didn’t think I had. templates that encompass all cocktails: the old-fashioned, martini, daiquiri, sidecar, whisky highball, and flip. It’s an interesting book for anyone interested in how drinks work as opposed to just a list of recipes and highly recommended. This is a great resource for seeing how cocktail variations can come from a base cocktail like an old fashioned or a martini.Some techniques go a bit too far for what I (or anyone really) would need at home (ready to get that 4000€ centrifuge?