Cocktail Products

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Used in a variety of classic cocktails like the Sazerac and the Corpse Reviver #2, absinthe is a key spirit to have in your bar collection.
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Cocktail books

Imbibe by David Wondrich

This is one of our go-to books and it should be on the bookshelf of any serious cocktail connoisseur. David Wondrich delivers a delightful narrative on the history of mixed drinks in America -- from colonial era "medicinal" cocktails, 19th Century pioneering bartender Jerry Thomas, the bubbly Jazz Age, and beyond. Winner of the James Beard Award.

Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails by Ted Haigh

A fantastic collection of rare mixed drinks from the man they call Dr. Cocktail. Winner of the Best New Cocktail Book of the Year, the publication's spiral binding makes it easy to lay the book flat and view the recipes as you mix. It also includes wonderful color photography and reprints of classic cocktail advertising from yesteryear.

Punch - The Delights (and Dangers) of the Flowing Bowl by David Wondrich

Imbibe author Wondrich takes you on a journey to punch bowl paradise. Alcoholic punches aren't as popular as they once were, but this book provides an amusing and detailed examination of this boozy tradition. Best of all, Wondrich suggest modern ingredients you can use to replace long extinct items. Impress your friends at your next party with a punch from the past.

Smuggler's Cove by Martin Cate and Rebecca Cate

The book's title is the namesake of the legendary San Francisco Tiki bar, which happens to be owned by the authors, Martin Cate and Rebecca Cate. In this handsomely illustrated book, the Cate's cover the history of Tiki culture and the cocktails that made it so popular.

The Craft of the Cocktail: Everything You Need to Know to Be a Master Bartender, with 500 Recipes
by Dale DeGroff

Covering the entire breadth of this rich subject, The Craft of the Cocktail provides much more than merely the same old recipes: it delves into history, personalities, and anecdotes; it shows you how to set up a bar, master important techniques, and use tools correctly; and it delivers unique concoctions, many featuring DeGroff’s signature use of fresh juices, as well as all the classics.

The Essential Cocktail: The Art of Mixing Perfect Drinks
by Dale DeGroff

King of Cocktails DeGroff has selected his 100 essential drinks and 100 of their best variations—including many of his signature cocktails—for this premier mixology guide.

The Gentlemen of Elegant Leisure used Dale's recipes for episode 24 - mint cocktails.

The Essential Cocktail features only those drinks that stand out for their flavor, interesting formula, or distinctive technique. These are the very ones every amateur and professional bartender must know, the martinis, sours, highballs, tropicals, punches, sweets, and classics, both old and new, that form the core of a connoisseur’s repertoire.

The Savoy Cocktail Book
by Harry Craddock

The Gentlemen of Elegant Leisure concocted cocktails for episode 25 from the recipes found in this book.

Every page of this classic was printed in color originally and our reprint reproduces all the drawings in color. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Harry Craddock was one of the most famous cocktail barmen of the 1920s and 1930s. Craddock's "The Savoy Cocktail Book" was published in 1930, and is still in print today. He invented a number of classic cocktails, including the famous Corpse Reviver #2 and possibly including the White Lady, and popularized the Dry Martini. Lavishly illustrated with all illustrations reproduced in color.

Boozehound: On the Trail of the Rare, the Obscure, and the Overrated in Spirits
by Jason Wilson

Often mentioned on our podcast, author Wilson champions Old World liquors with hard-to-define flavors—a bitter and complex Italian amari, or the ancient, aromatic herbs of Chartreuse, as well as distinctive New World offerings like lively Peruvian pisco. With an eye for adventure, Wilson seeks out visceral experiences at the source of production—visiting fields of spiky agave in Jalisco, entering the heavily and reverently-guarded Jägermeister herb room in Wolfenbüttel, and journeying to the French Alps to determine if mustachioed men in berets really handpick blossoms to make elderflower liqueur.

In addition, Boozehound offers more than fifty drink recipes, from three riffs on the Manhattan to cocktail-geek favorites like the Aviation and the Last Word.