Since then, we have evolved and changed from an intimate bar in NYC to an ever-growing family of bars in NYC, Denver, Los Angeles, and Washington, D. Some say that the first book is more about the bar itself than the theory, but then others say the recipes in the first are better.

C. Throughout this growth, we've maintained our commitment to fine products and exceptional experiences, a focus on hospitality, and a deep desire to be a center for our communities. It is a real investment to serve superior craft cocktails at home, both in the cash outlay and the making a flavor elements to elevate your cocktails to the next level. The central model of base, balance, spice fits well with a lot of cocktail recipes, though it's a little bit of a stretch for some that they squeeze into the sections. At Slightly Pretentious we're on a quest to visit the top 100 bars in the world, and here we share stories from those travels while also helping you create killer cocktails at home. I've learned many things with this book, and I've added quite a few non-classic cocktail recipes to my repertoire.I came into this book a novice and finished it with a fairly robust understanding of cocktail composition, differences between liquors, liquers, and bitters, and balance. I am a casual home bartender (at best) but also a home chef, and felt that the authors’ description of what makes a cocktail (core, balance, seasoning) helped me both mix and cook better. I am a novice and enjoyed learning about how to make cocktails based on 6 core cocktails and then being able to develop it. While pretentious at times --although clearly written for would-be bartenders-- it was a really helpful approach to understand basic cocktail formulas, and how changing the spirit or seasoning can create new cocktails. Includes both technical details and tricks, explanations of why recipes work and how to categorize them, plus just the right set of specs to make plenty of drinks.

Replace the high-proof whiskey in an Old-Fashioned with a larger quantity of low-proof amontillado sherry, and swap muddled orange slices for the bitters, you have a Cobbler. We were trying to get into PDT, and with insane wait times, we were lucky to get seated a few doors down with little wait at Death and Co. I bartended on and off throughout university to make ends meet and mostly fumbled my way through various cocktails. I especially like the "see which variation you like" specs they have: making you taste test exactly what ratio of simple to sour you like in various cocktails and more. Only thing it's really missing is history and stories of classic cocktails, but that's a different book.

From techniques to mixing different ingredients to playing around with syrups and bitters this book is the best! In Cocktail Codex, these experts reveal for the first time their surprisingly simple approach to mastering cocktails: the “root recipes,” six easily identifiable (and memorizable! While you don’t hear about it quite as much as you used to with so many new bars opening up – it’s still one of the very best places in New York to get a good drink. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Cocktail Codex's classic recipes are acceptable for most bars (though most high-end bars have at least one classic cocktail they prepare unusually), though they can be needlessly fussy. templates that encompass all the old-fashioned, martini, daiquiri, sidecar, whisky highball, and flip. The method to the madness of categorizing, making and enjoying the various cocktails and their riffs is fascinating and educational.

All cocktails, they claim, can be traced back to 6 root recipes: The Old-Fashioned, The Martini, The Daiquiri, The Sidecar, The Whisky Highball, and The Flip. e. think of a Manhattan as a Martini with the gin swapped for whisky and the white vermouth for red, or a Margarita as a tequila Sidecar). Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. I would love to find a book that builds on ratios of spirits and modifiers that can be used as a foundation for building more variations on the original cocktail. More importantly, it makes it easy to understand how many cocktails simply swap out another cocktail's core or balance, and then adjust from there.