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The definitive guide to the contemporary craft cocktail movement, from one of the highest-profile, most critically lauded, and influential bars in the world.
 
Death & Co is the most important, influential, and oft-imitated bar to emerge from the contemporary craft cocktail movement. Since its opening in 2006, Death & Co has been a must-visit destination for serious drinkers and cocktail enthusiasts, and the winner of every major industry award—including America’s Best Cocktail Bar and Best Cocktail Menu at the Tales of the Cocktail convention. Boasting a supremely talented and creative bar staff—the best in the industry—Death & Co is also the birthplace of some of the modern era’s most iconic drinks, such as the Oaxaca Old-Fashioned, Naked and Famous, and the Conference. 

Destined to become a definitive reference on craft cocktails, Death & Co features more than 500 of the bar’s most innovative and sought-after cocktails. But more than just a collection of recipes, Death & Co is also a complete cocktail education, with information on the theory and philosophy of drink making, a complete guide to buying and using spirits, and step-by-step instructions for mastering key bartending techniques. Filled with beautiful, evocative photography; illustrative charts and infographics; and colorful essays about the characters who fill the bar each night; Death & Co—like its namesake bar—is bold, elegant, and setting the pace for mixologists around the world.

From the Publisher

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ten Speed Press (October 7, 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1607745259
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1607745259
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.2 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.5 x 1.26 x 10.2 inches
Reviewer: Paige DR
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: For the curious and studious mixologist, a reference to turn to again and again
Review: I bought this book on recommendation from a favorite bartender. It's one of the better-value kitchen books I own: long, super dense, and cloth-bound, with high-quality photos and drawings. It's part instructions (how to properly shake and stir, how to taste spirits, what types of ingredients go well together, how to form intuition for the right amount of sweet vs. sour), part recipes, and part memoir / vignettes from the NYC bar. It's pretty impressive how erudite these guys are; they write with convincing authority, and the kind of mastery that makes the book feel like an aspiration that you know you will never fully achieve, but that you can keep turning to again and again to learn more.It gets five stars because I use it all the time and find it a fount of random wisdom and interesting asides, but I should note a few things:- There are no vodka recipes...they think vodka is boring.- Many of the drink recipes require obscure ingredients or expensive liquors, so the actual number of recipes I've made from this book so far is kind of small (limited to their "classic cocktails" section). However, this gives one plenty of room to grow and makes it possible for the book to appeal to all kinds of mixologists, from casual to more serious.- I'm sometimes frustrated by the lack of an index to their recipes, e.g. say I want to find all the recipes that include white (blanc) vermouth, well that isn't possible. I have to page through the various sections (Classic Cocktails, Gin Stirred, Gin Shaken, etc.) hoping to stumble upon this ingredient.

Reviewer: Kenyon Terrell
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Awesome Book
Review: The recipes in this book are amazing. I love the story behind the company.

Reviewer: Jaime B
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Up your game!
Review: I LOVE this book. I checked it out four times from the library before I finally decided to buy it! Lol. I'm a bartender and I was getting into craft cocktails when I found this book. I've learned so much about how to up my cocktail game using different techniques and methods. It's so fun and interesting! This is definitely one of the cocktail Bibles.

Reviewer: Mark McDonough
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Fun, but not a beginner's manual
Review: This is a really handsome book - although with a few copy editing errors. It would make a nice gift for the intermediate to advanced home cocktail enthusiast. There's a lot of excellent advice on how to perfect techniques - and there's an awareness that the reader cannot duplicate everything that's done at a bar by professionals. And there's a certain amount of bragging about how wonderful this particular bar is - and I'm sure it is.The part you may find more inspirational than actually useful are the recipes. Making cocktails, like cooking, is partly about technique, but also about the ingredients. When high-end bars write guides like this they face a dilemma. They spend lots of time building cocktails with just the right ingredients - often difficult to source. And things that make sense at a busy bar - like preparing and maintaining a stock of infused simple syrups - really don't translate to the home environment where you are making a few cocktails a week. So they can dumb down the recipes - which means they aren't the *real* recipes... or they can present them as they are and risk frustrating the reader.This book takes the latter route - exotic ingredients are on full display, and the readers' first reaction is "there's not a single drink in this book that I have *all* the ingredients for - and some of this stuff I've never even heard of!"My approach to this is to rely on more basic books to figure out what you (and your frequent guests) like and then use books like this (or scanning the listed ingredients at top-flight bars) to take those drinks to the next level. To make *all* the drinks in this book, you'd need to open a bar. But to perfect your two or three favorites is quite doable.

Reviewer: BRK212
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Incredible - the best and most practical cocktail book I've seen
Review: This book is crazy - it's by far the best cocktail book I've ever seen and incredibly unique in its approach. For one, it's beautifully made with a linen binding and gorgeous full color photos and illustrations. But what I really love about this book is all the details on how the bar works - there's a script of the bar staff testing a drink, considering what it lacks, suggesting additions or substitute brands that would improve the drink. I've never really thought about how a bar works together to put a new drink on the menu, but this book exposes the process over a few pages that's totally fascinating.Other things like a chart of how Death & Co. approaches "bartender's choice" shows you the "how to" side that I've only seen here in this book. I also enjoyed the staff notes on why they select one brand of liquor over another - why use Beefeater gin vs. Hendrick's, as well as some of the inspiration behind certain drinks "it's a whiskey sour but made with tequila", will change the way you think about making drinks. The book has one page essays about certain regulars and what their drink of choice is that make this world class, destination bar seem more like your neighborhood tavern and bring a kind of familiarity to the book.Finally, and my favorite part is that the recipes are great and most are easy to make at home - this isn't just a coffee table book, it's practical and I find myself reaching for it on a regular basis to actually make something from my home bar. You don't have to make lots of custom ingredients, fat-wash a bottle of expensive spirits, or do too much that's a pain in the butt.

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: An absolute must for any bartender
Review: I love going through this book to look for ideas and gain more knowledge of bartending. It has a really nice build quality to it. The book is nicely put together with great photos, tips and tricks, how-tos and small stories.Also looks great on any coffee table

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Beautiful Book
Review: The book is very nice. The photos are colorful. I was concerned after reading other reviews because the cover is fabric, however the large sticker came off with no problem. It's a quality gift.

Reviewer: Marcela L.E.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: La estética del libro es muy agradable, pasta dura forrada con textil, el contenido es muy interesante incluso para personas que no están tan involucradas o conocen del mundo de la coctelería.

Reviewer: Amazon Kunde
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: This book is BEAUTIFUL, it looks stunning and is great quality, I mostly bought it because I loved the title and look of it but to be honest the content is equally great with many easy to follow recipes.

Reviewer: Christina Berg
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Ich habe es an einen jungen Kollegen zum Geburtstag verschenkt , der begeisterter Hobby Barkeeper ist. Er sagt es sind tolle 'Rezepte' darin und das es ein sehr sinnvolles Geschenk ist.Mehr kann ich leider nicht sagen, denn es kam eingeschweißt an und ich habe es genauso weitergegeben, falls er es hätte tauschen wollen.

Reviewer: Callum Cummins
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I've been using this book for years now, and have made many of the drinks within and visited the bar in person since my purchase. It's a fantastic resource, containing recipes for hundreds of delicious cocktails. Lots of good theory to be read if you go beyond the recipes as well, detailing how the bartenders at Death & Co go about creating new drinks and flavours that they have found go together well.It's been an invaluable resource since I purchased it, and helped me expand my home bar from the dregs of my university days to a collection that allows me to make a good number of the drinks recipes contained within the book. Many of the recipes can be made with some core purchases, with very few recipes calling for the sort of ingredient that will sit in the back of your cabinet unused for years.Whether you're new to mixing drinks, or you've got several years experience behind you, you can't go wrong with this book.

Reviewer: KiwiInOz
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Must have if you love creating cocktails weather a professional or dabbler - the only book you really need if you want to learn how to successfully create your own twists on the classics.