Genever

Genever
Author: Veronique Van Acker - Beittel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2013-06
Genre: Genever
ISBN: 9780615795850

Distilled from grain nurtured in the soil of Belgium and the Netherlands, genever embodies the spirit, creativity, and resiliency of the culture that created it. Surviving five centuries of wars and prohibitions, genever was perfected and spread across the world. During its evolution, genever inspired the creation of gin and secured a place at America's early cocktail bars. This unique spirit category is as diverse, complicated and delightful to explore as the world of whiskey or cognac. Many people don?t realize that one of Manhattan?s original drinks was genever. Europeans were consuming genever where skyscrapers would later stand and nearly 340 years before the rise of the Empire State Building. Unfortunately the booze culture these Europeans first imported is now buried in oceans of time. Today genever is a fairly unknown and mostly misunderstood spirit even though its history is intricately integrated in the way Americans and the rest of the world drinks today. Whether you are a spirit and cocktail connoisseur or a burgeoning mixologist, Genever: 500 Years of History in a Bottle provides an enlightening review of genever's colorful past and offers tempting options for making it part of your future.

Cocktails

Cocktails
Author: Simon Difford
Publisher: diffordsguide
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2008-02
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9780955627606

The 7th edition of a book that is widely regarded by members of the drinks industry as the most complete and authoritative cocktail publication available. It contains 2,250 easy to follow cocktail recipes, each accompanied by a colour photograph. It also includes detailed instructions for beginners, tips for bar professionals, reviews of the top 100 international bars and a history of the cocktail.

World's Best Cocktails

World's Best Cocktails
Author: Tom Sandham
Publisher: Fair Winds Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2012-10-01
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1610586484

World's Best Cocktails is an exciting global journey, providing the secrets to successful cocktail making, their history and provenance, and where to seek out the world’s best bars and bartenders, from London to Long Island and beyond. Cocktail and liquor connoisseur Tom Sandham provides a comprehensive appraisal of global cocktail culture, highlighting the trends and techniques that make the finest drinks popular in their native climes and across the world. Cocktail lovers will appreciate personal tips from key bartenders such as Jim Meehan and Dale de Groff in New York and Tony Conigliaro and Salvatore Calabrese in London, while cutting-edge recent award winners point to the future with their new daring flavor combinations. At last, discerning drinkers can learn more about what to drink and where, then bring back their coolest cocktail experiences to enjoy at home.

The 12 Bottle Bar

The 12 Bottle Bar
Author: David Solmonson
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2014-07-29
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0761181385

It’s a system, a tool kit, a recipe book. Beginning with one irresistible idea--a complete home bar of just 12 key bottles--here’s how to make more than 200 classic and unique mixed drinks, including sours, slings, toddies, and highballs, plus the perfect Martini, the perfect Manhattan, and the perfect Mint Julep. It’s a surprising guide--tequila didn’t make the cut, and neither did bourbon, but genever did. And it’s a literate guide--describing with great liveliness everything from the importance of vermouth and bitters (the “salt and pepper” of mixology) to the story of a punch bowl so big it was stirred by a boy in a rowboat.

Gin

Gin
Author: Lesley Jacobs Solmonson
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2012-05-15
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 186189936X

Mother’s Milk, Mother’s Ruin, and Ladies’ Delight. Dutch Courage and Cuckold’s Comfort. These evocative nicknames for gin hint that it has a far livelier history than the simple and classic martini would lead you to believe. In this book, Lesley Jacobs Solmonson journeys into gin’s past, revealing that this spirit has played the role of both hero and villain throughout history. Taking us back to gin’s origins as a medicine derived from the aromatic juniper berry, Solmonson describes how the Dutch recognized the berry’s alcoholic possibilities and distilled it into the whiskey-like genever. She then follows the drink to Britain, where cheap imitations laced with turpentine and other caustic fillers made it the drink of choice for poor eighteenth-century Londoners. Eventually replaced by the sweetened Old Tom style and later by London Dry gin, its popularity spread along with the British Empire. As people today once again embrace classic cocktails like the gimlet and the negroni, gin has reclaimed its place in the world of mixology. Featuring many enticing recipes, Gin is the perfect gift for cocktail aficionados and anyone who wants to know whether it should be shaken or stirred.

The Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails

The Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails
Author: David Wondrich
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 881
Release: 2021-10-20
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0199311137

The Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails presents an in-depth exploration of the world of spirits and cocktails in a ground-breaking synthesis. The Companion covers drinks, processes, and techniques around the world as well as those in the US and Europe. It provides clear explanations of the different ways that spirits are produced, including fermentation, distillation and ageing, alongside a wealth of new detail on the emergence of cocktails and cocktails bars, including entries on key cocktails and influential mixologists and cocktail bars.

The Art of Distilling, Revised and Expanded

The Art of Distilling, Revised and Expanded
Author: Bill Owens
Publisher: Quarry Books
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2019-01-22
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1631595547

The Art of Distilling, Revised and Updated presents the techniques and inspirations of the most innovative micro-distillers working today and ties it together with incredible insider photography. In this comprehensive guide to artisan distilling, American Distilling Institute founder Bill Owens will teach you how contemporary master distillers transform water and grain into the full range of exquisite, timeless spirits. The Art of Distilling, Revised and Updated is your exclusive backstage pass into the world of small-scale distilling of whiskies, gins, vodkas, brandies, and many other spirits. Like no other book on the subject, The Art of Distilling goes to lengths to explore the actual craft of distilling, in detail. Beginning with a brief history of distilling and introduction to the process itself, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the art of distilling today. The revised and expanded edition includes even more practical tips, tricks, and instruction and has been updated to include growth and development in the artisan distilling space over the past decade. The Art of Distilling, Revised and Updated is the consummate insider's guide to distilling and its techniques.

The Book of Gin

The Book of Gin
Author: Richard Barnett
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2012-12-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0802120431

Presents a history of the gin industry, from its roots as a medicine to gin palaces of the nineteenth century to bathtub gin of the prohibition.

Tipples – Book Two

Tipples – Book Two
Author: Andrew Willett
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 656
Release: 2019-04-04
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 035948722X

The Elemental Mixology Tipples books contain a multitude of classic, popular, rare and custom drinks. Book one covers Punches, Blossoms, Fruitballs and Possets. By returning to the tradition of understanding drinks by types, these are the only current books that let the reader look up drinks even if not knowing their name - or even knowing for sure whether they already exist. All are prepared, according to the principles of traditional, American mixology. Recommended liquor, glassware and tools required for making each type of drink is indicated throughout the book. There are also sections the history of the types of, and often specific, drinks. Both book one and book two are needed.

Tipples - Book Two - Slings

Tipples - Book Two - Slings
Author: Andrew Willett
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2020-04-06
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1716003628

The Elemental Mixology Tipples books contain a multitude of classic, popular, rare and custom drinks. Book two covers Slings (including true Cocktails). By returning to the tradition of understanding drinks by types, these are the only current books that let the reader look up drinks even if not knowing their name � or even knowing for sure whether they already exist. All are prepared, according to the principles of traditional, American mixology. Recommended liquor, glassware and tools required for making each type of drink is indicated throughout the book. There are also sections the history of the types of, and often specific, drinks. The complete set of books one through four are needed for coverage of all types of drinks.