The Bartender's Bible: 1001 Mixed Drinks and Everything You Need to Know to Set Up Your Bar

This book all the basic information you'd expect from a bartending guide: glassware, tools, alcohol, mixers, and a few hundred pages of clear, no-nonsense recipes. So far, so good. Two factors, however, distinguish this book from others like it: its organization and its snappy, literate prose. The Bartender's Bible is intelligently organized by main ingredient. It has separate chapters for bourbon, gin, tequila, vodka,... Read Full Review

It is not really needed but I will chime in and say it is the first drinks book I got, and the only one of the many I now have that I use. The others are OK for specialty applications but the sheer number of drinks in this one makes it an amazing experience. stellar are the introductions to each base ingredient section; how is gin made; is whiskey and whisky the same thing? Etc etc. A great buy!

I have perused through my fair share of bartending guides, and have found two genres: those that concentrate on instructing you how to bartend, and those that simply provide material you should know to bartend. I prefer the latter due simply to the fact that every one needs to develop thier own style of doing things. One's style need not be radically different from common practice, but rather allow the bartender to serve in... Read Full Review