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JAMES BEARD AWARD WINNER • Offering a foundational approach to cocktails, this manual from a James Beard Award-winning trailblazer will have you understanding and creating original drinks like a seasoned barkeep.

Take a raucous romp through the essential stages of fashioning cocktails and learn the hows and whys of bartending with acclaimed mixologist Toby Maloney and the team from The Violet Hour. When the pioneering cocktail bar opened in Chicago in 2007, it set a high standard with an innovative training program that teaches not just how to replicate classic cocktail recipes flawlessly, but how to embrace ingenuity, make smart decisions, and create original, inspired recipes from rote. Like cooks who can peer into their pantry and whip up dinner on the fly, no recipe needed, those who follow the methods in The Bartender's Manifesto will have the technical foundation and confidence to take their cocktail skills to the next level and fabricate a drink from any ingredients at hand.
 
First, dive deep into the mechanics of creating cocktails with the right balance, texture, aroma, and temperature. From there, Toby goes well beyond the fine-tuned mechanics of the craft, covering how to kickstart the creative process and bring professional-level complexity and sophistication to drinks. Additional essays offer insider intel on how to offer top-notch hospitality (at the bar and at home), find comfort in the everyday rituals of the craft, and spark surprise and curiosity in the process. With detailed insights into The Violet Hour’s greatest recipes, expert tips from bar alumni, and helpful step-by-step illustrations and photographs, readers will come away with a deeper understanding of what makes the bar’s training program so legendary, plus the superpower of creating imaginative cocktails that reflect their personal style and creativity.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Clarkson Potter (June 14, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0593137981
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0593137987
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.38 x 1.2 x 9.77 inches
Reviewer: Just Another Spider From Mars.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Often involved but always accessible. Great read and resource.
Review: I have been a professional bartender for a little over a decade now, having started bartending on my 21st birthday after having been a barback for some time. I've always been passionate about the drinks and the profession as a whole and consider myself a student to an ever-evolving craft where complacency kills. I have an extensive cocktail library and enjoy reading them all from start to finish in hopes to find new tricks, techniques, dispositions or "aha moments" where I find a cocktail spec with pairings I never would have thought of as being cohesive. A good cocktail book should always be inspiring, and Maloney and Janzen have certainly delivered that in spades. Amongst the classics, I have the more contemporary books from Death & Co., Dead Rabbit, Meehan, Morganthaler, Masa, The Everleigh, Jamie Boudreau, Brad Thomas Parsons, Leo Robitschek, Robert Simonson, David Wondrich, Sasha Petraske, Gary Reagan, and Amy Stewart to name a few of the more notable ones. "The Bartender's Manifesto" is not the least bit out of place amongst these magnificent titles, and in many ways, delivers in ways some had failed to do. I had pre-ordered this book as I was ecstatic Toby Maloney was releasing a book as his "Juliet & Romeo" is one of my all time favorite cocktails. It showed up the same day it was released and does not disappoint. Maloney and Janzen lay out the book in such a fresh and approachable way for bartenders and enthusiasts of all skill levels, even suggesting home bartenders start their journey with the book on page 20, and advising professionals that they may start their journey on page 126. That's a lot of material to work painstakingly on to then suggest many of your readers may be able to just skip it, but I'm very appreciative of the approach! There are gems everywhere though, and I fully intend to revisit the "basics" listed here too because everyone defines them differently and it can be easy to develop bad habits in the name of efficiency in busy bars, and we must remind ourselves to not cut corners and to keep ourselves in check in that regard. (We owe it to both our patrons and our friends!) Passionate people that are masters of their craft can bring to light the most essential minute details in even these "basics", and I find that passion, drive, and understanding deeply inspiring, personally. This is one of those books. **A note on the "accessibility" of the recipes in this book: I get incredibly irritated by lackluster reviews of some of my favorite cocktail books because some reviewer or another finds the drinks and ingredients listed in the specs as being "too specific/difficult to find/too many housemade ingredients/generally too involved". These people are all sharing their trade secrets with you IN GREAT DETAIL, and giving you specific recipes that WORK... They're not going to release some vague recipe to cater to whatever you might already have sitting on your bar, when they've spent the time, money, and liver health figuring it all out for you. Be grateful for the detail and get over it. THAT BEING SAID, I find *most* of these recipes to be pretty accessible. Some, like the "Juliet and Romeo", for example, may be what I would call "more involved", but they are still accessible recipes with ingredients you should be able to find pretty much anywhere with a spirits section. The recipes within the book can get specific, but I personally don't find any of them to be unnecessary flexes on the Bartender's part, unobtainable ingredients, or remotely discouraging in detail as some other cocktail books can be... You might have to cough up a little dough to source certain bottles, but you won't have to befriend a French diplomat or anything... Plus, if you're an enthusiast or professional, you should be stoked to try new things anyway! Isn't that partly why you'd but the book?I'm the end, I highly recommend this book.

Reviewer: Branden Lewis
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Excellent for both beginners and masters of the craft!
Review: I bought this book some time ago now and finally finished reading it recently. I enjoyed every ounce of the details laid out in the book and im glad that out of the books I purchased this was the one i picked first. I highly recommend to anyone learning bartending or even those who’ve been doing it professionally for years. Like others have said, some of the ingredients are very specific, but rightly so! Not all whiskey or gin or tequila, etc. taste the same. If you have a bar at home this book also has plenty of techniques to learn from, whether it’s learning how to formulate cocktails of your own, to the basics like which glass to use and why, or even the things you don’t think about like which peel to use on which old fashioned you make; bourbon or rye, and why a different peel might work better to complement the spirit. I would totally re read this book again in the future and the cocktails looked worthwhile.

Reviewer: Julie
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good book
Review: Good to read. Very descriptive

Reviewer: Emily Nachtegall
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: This cocktail book is AMAZING!
Review: I have made so many fun drinks for friends when we have them over fromThis book. Such a fun way to spice up the nice with a fun drink!

Reviewer: Justin Barnett
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Fantastic Read for Cocktail Enthusiasts
Review: I purchased this book as a way to get some unique recipes, and I learned way more than I thought I would. The Violet Hour is so lucky to have such a passionate owner who's more than willing to share his passion and thought process on creating cocktails. Toby's style of writing is also so much fun and and makes the book interesting to a non-reader. It's really like a written master class in cocktails. I highly recommend this to anyone who is remotely interested in cocktails.

Reviewer: Saharai S.
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great content but book came damaged
Review: I love the recipes and the format, easy to read and very pleasant and clean visually. Lots of ingredients and variations for all kinds of tastes. I did however purchase this boom as a gift, and the corner binding was a bit torn and the pages are warped, almost like they had some moisture damage before.

Reviewer: Kiralyn Mejia
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great book for beginners
Review: This is jam packed with a lot of great knowledge needed for bartending

Reviewer: mary urban
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Must have book for learning how to make cocktails
Review: This book is not only instructional but it is a good read as well. The author is witty, and made me laugh out loud. The drinks I have been able to make so far have been delicious as well!

Reviewer: Lucia Guglielmi
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Bought this book as new and arrived damaged and scratched