2024 the best bartending book review
Price: $24.95 - $19.20
(as of Oct 22, 2024 19:55:12 UTC - Details)
The Ultimate Bar Book andmdash; The bartender's bible
James Beard nominee for Best Wine and Spirit Book
The cocktail book for your home: The Ultimate Bar Book is an indispensable guide to classic cocktails and new drink recipes. Loaded with essential-to-know topics such as barware, tools, and mixing tips.
Classic cocktails and new drinks: As the mistress of mixology, the author Mittie Hellmich has the classics down for the Martini, the Bloody Maryandmdash;and the many variations such as the Dirty Martini and the Virgin Mary. And then there are all the creative new elixirs the author brings to the table, like the Tasmanian Twister Cocktail or the Citron Sparkler.
Illustrated secrets of classic cocktails and more: Illustrations show precisely what type of glass should be used for each drink. With dozens of recipes for garnishes, rims, infusions, and syrups; punches, gelatin shooters, hot drinks, and non-alcoholic beverages; and let's not forget an essential selection of hangover remedies, The Ultimate Bar Book is nothing short of top-shelf.
If you liked PTD Cocktail Book, 12 Bottle Bar and The Joy of Mixology, you'll love The Ultimate Bar Book
This makes for a great gift for bartenders and is the ideal addition to any bartender's book collection or for anyone who's looking for books from these categories:
Essential Cocktail BooksBartender Recipe BooksDrink Mixing BooksAlcohol Drink Recipe Books.
From the brand
Bestselling Gifts
Food & Drink
Humor
Art & Design
Publisher : Chronicle Books; First Edition (June 23, 2006)
Language : English
Hardcover : 476 pages
ISBN-10 : 0811843513
ISBN-13 : 978-0811843515
Reading age : 13 years and up
Grade level : 8 and up
Item Weight : 1.7 pounds
Dimensions : 5.25 x 1.5 x 7.88 inches
Reviewer: D.Jeffreys
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: All in One Book
Review: I bought this book with three other "Mixology" and "Home Bartender" style books. This one is easily the best of the bunch. It explains the tools, what they do, and which one you need to get started. It goes into detail on the bare bones essentials to start mixing, and what you need if you want to expand into a moderate and even a fully stocked bar.The book breaks down each alcohol and explains the history, labeling (so you know what to look for), and what glass to serve each drinks in. It even gives tips on garnishing, and explains the terminology.Aside from the astonishing detail and information, the book is weighty, but reasonably so given its size and appears to be of great quality. I've seen other comments mention receiving damaged and/or sticky books, mine arrived clean and unscathed.All in all, this is a great starting book that will guide you through being a beginner, and continue to aid you as your mixing skills progress to Advanced.
Reviewer: Jaclyn
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The Bible
Review: This book is *perfect* for any cocktail enthusiast. Recipes from all around the world!
Reviewer: Michael
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: This book gets bigger as people get smaller.
Review: I love that it is an all encompassing work of literature from a bar person point of view.Conâs: Due to my recent RLE operation I find the book quite easy to read. Without glasses it is impossible to read until you realize that itâs not actually the spoon bending but the new focal point of your new eyes Lt. Dan
Reviewer: Bomb Man58
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A Good Beginners Guide...But...
Review: I don't profess to know a lot about bar work or the myriad of various cocktails that people enjoy. This book is a good guide for somebody who wants to know about mixing drinks for maybe a couple of friends over for a barbecue, or a party with twenty attendees.The book is divided into sections on setting up a basic or fairly well stocked home bar, the various equipment needed and most important, for appearances sake when whipping up a quick 'Tom Collins' or 'Rob Roy', the type of glass to put your masterpiece in.With over 1000 different drink recipes I thought this book was very informative and well laid out. It is a solid book-hard covers and quite heavy with the type of paper used. There are no photographs of the finished mixed drink, however I don't consider this an important requirement; there is a shadow outline of the recommended glass to use next to each drink. These various glass styles are discussed in an earlier section of the book.It is obvious the author has completed a fair amount of research into this book and while there are new drinks emerging all the time and different 'slants' on probably the more readily known drinks; for someone who is a novice, this book is very comprehensive.The book examines drinks that are based around various spirits such as vodka, gin, whisky, cognac etc, together with some non-alcoholic offerings for those who do not imbibe.If there is a critical aspect of this book it is its size. I found the book small and as a consequence, to accommodate all the information, the printing is in a small font; this aspect makes the book difficult to read in some light situations and if you suffer from eyesight problems, then you may find this book frustrating in that regard. Together with the size problem, is the binding, while the book looks very impressive sitting in among books on a shelf, the binding does not allow the book to sit open at a specific page and this would make trying to use it behind a bar frustrating. The paper used in the pages has no water proof capabilities so using it near liquids would see the book easily spoiled.In summary a very good beginners reference to bars and drink mixing, however a book that requires someone to copy drink recipes from, not a user friendly volume for behind a bar.In closing I would like to acknowledge the business who shipped this book to me, after a time lapse in the projected shipping date, I contacted them to inform I had not received this book. They worked to recover the shipping info and contacted me to update me on the status of the order. Well done!
Reviewer: D. Andrew Buck
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Very complete and authoritative
Review: After setting up a home bar, I needed a reliable resource for drink recipes. Everything else was rather light on the overall coverage or just very restricted to one type of liquor or another and what I needed was more a standard reference for (almost) everything. True to its title, there are 1,000+ recipes in this, and it's organized in an easy to find manner. Moreover, there are two indexes: One accounts for the drink recipes by drink, the other is organized by major liquor ingredient (say, Bourbon), so finding what I might like to make is simple and quick.There is occasional background on liquor or drink types at the beginning of sections, but unlike other books it doesn't dwell on the history lessons and focuses more on "what will you need", "how to choose", "what should be in my standard bar stock", and other topics like that. The focus is more on providing the ready-reference and necessary background and taking you right into getting the ingredients, measurements, and activities aligned.I wanted just one book that would serve the purpose of "how do I make..." and this for me was it. I'd highly recommend this if that's also your goal in finding that single reference guide. My only complaint is that the actual book is on the small side with a lot of information in smaller type. Keep that in mind and for those needing reading glasses, break those out to review this one.
Reviewer: Lizzie
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Drinks tonight
Review: Great guided book on how to for your drinks. Step by step instructions.
Reviewer: theThinker
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Received as described
Review: This book came on time and as described. Ordered a used, hard cover bar guide. The book is in good condition. A few notes handwritten in the book, but nothing to keep me from following the directions. Pleased with this purchase.
Reviewer: Andrew Wallace
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: For my grandma
Review: I needed some drink recipes to get my grandma drunk at her husband's funeral. Of course I ended up pouring her straight shots of vodka. She puked in a houseplant and didn't remember anything the next day. Mission accomplished!
Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Book is fantastic looking.Tons of simple delicious drinks.Very pleased.
Reviewer: Abdulla
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: 474 Sayfadan oluÅan bu kitap güzel bir kaynak, hem de çok Åık. KaÄıt kalitesi de çok iyi. Görseller de çizimle yapıldıÄı için hiçbir zaman eskimeyecek.
Reviewer: Mikki
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Great book will be buying more for christmas presents
Reviewer: john dunning
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Very informative and useful. This is a must along side the Bar Tenders Bible!
Reviewer: Peter
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Great Drink Recipes, and well made.I am Happy 🙂
Customers say
Customers find the book has a lot of information and recipes. They say it's organized in an easy-to-find manner and the directions are clear. Readers also mention that the book contains every cocktail known to man and is a great value for money. They appreciate the history and gift value. Opinions are mixed on the print size, with some finding it decently small and convenient to carry around, while others say it's too large.
AI-generated from the text of customer reviews