Bartending Books & Drinks Books

Check out these bartending books and books on drinks and drink recipes for further reading and refinement of your bartending skills, as well as appreciation for certain cocktails and other drinks.

The Bartender's Black Book

The Bartender's Black Book is one of the most popular new drinks guides around. There's over 2500 recipes provided, with 500 Martinis alone in this 256 page booklet!

Clear and easy instruction from one of America's most famous professional bartenders.

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The Bartender's Bible : 1001 Mixed Drinks and Everything You Need to Know to Set Up Your Bar

This bartending guide is more of an encyclopedia for bartenders.

The Bartender's Bible includes information on:

• Shot-by-shot recipes for over 1,000 cocktails and mixed drinks from bourbon to rum to whiskey

• Stocking and equipping a bar

• Special category drinks such as tropical, classics, aperitifs, cordials, hot drinks, and party punches

• Anecdotes and histories of favorite potables

• And a lot more...

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The Ultimate Little Shooter Book

Self-published for years, The Ultimate Little Shooter Book has been one of the top-selling shot books on the market. This new and revised version gives the best recipes for more than 1,000 shots that are sure to please anyone looking for a new and exciting drink.

Ray Foley is the ultimate authority on bartending. He is the publisher of Bartender Magazine, the No. 1 magazine in circulation for the bartending trade. This book is the result of his years of experience working with bars and bartenders across the country to find such shots as: -- Carrot Cake Shooter -- Electric Sambuca -- Key Lime Pie -- Red-Eyed Smiley Face -- Shock Treatment...

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The Ultimate Little Martini Book

Here's a great Martini book by the same author of the Ultimate Little Shooter book -- Ray Foley.

This updated and revised edition brings even more to the martini lover, with more than 1,000 recipes to choose from, such as: -- Desert Sunset Martini -- Four Alarm Martini -- Jamaican Martini -- Orange Truffle Martini -- Snowcone Martini and much more...

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Wine for Dummies

Everything you really need to know about buying, storing, serving and talking about wine is in Wine for Dummies; anything else is pretty much pretension.

Wine for Dummies is written by a husband and wife team who are experts that assure us that even the most basic knowledge will undermine the very notion of wine snobery. They provide you with the context in which to begin exploring wine. And in later chapters they also get into serious topics such as investing in and cellaring wine.

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Whiskey : The Definitive World Guide

Like the drink, this book may be best consumed in small doses; it's heady stuff.

From grain to glass, Whiskey tells you everything and anything you'll ever want to know about whiskey, from storing and serving whiskey, whiskey cocktails, to pairing whiskey with food. Includes a huge background on the story behind aromas and flavors, what makes certain distilleries unique, how weather and environment influence taste and much more in this huge encyclopedic compendium.

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