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Cocktail Codex: Fundamentals, Formulas, Evolutions [A Cocktail Recipe Book]

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This is stuff (aside from infusions) that you should honestly avoid until you know what you're doing, but it's all very cool and raises your horizons of what a cocktail can be. This framework will not make you an expert, or even able to competently step behind the bar of a high-end bar, but you will gain a baseline understanding of what's going on. 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!

However like all Death and Co books it relies on specific brands of spirits and liqueurs instead of base spirits, liqueurs, and modifiers that are interchangeable. The authors make a compelling case that they can and the result is a mental map of the cocktail universe that is empowering to professional bartenders and amateurs alike. By studying [these] classic cocktails and explaining how we and others have interpreted these forms, we're providing the foundational knowledge necessary for developing your own artful creations based upon studied skills and knowledge. Liquid Intelligence has more tech details, and plenty of books have a bigger repertoire of specific recipes, but Cocktail Codex hits the sweet spot right in the middle. By studying each of the six drinks, you’ll learn the mechanics of a particular style of cocktail and important lessons in technique and ingredients that elevate your cocktail game.

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.

The idea reminds me a lot of the book DIY Cocktails, by Marcia Simmons, which also divides up cocktails by their basic ratio, though it has more categories. 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. While there is a sameness about everything when all you do is work and home, the attention to the food and drink has been exquisite. The Cocktail Codex is one of our favourite cocktail books and helps you understand the science behind the recipe, rather than just following it step by step.

This book is perfect for someone who wants to learn how to mix drinks to their own accord and break some rules rather than just have a recipe to go by and nothing else. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

More than just a collection of recipes - this explains the frameworks and how the different ingredient categories interact, with examples. 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. if you can afford dozens of spirits and liqueurs (some of which are used in very few cocktails in the book), fine. 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! Cocktail Codex gives the drink enthusiast a comprehensive, fun, and complete look into the fundamentals of cocktails and the illustrations, stories, and background information give the reader a look into the world of professional drink making at its best.As an English teacher now I often tell my students there are only 7 basic plot lines, so when this book introduced six universal cocktails, the penny dropped! Part of this excitement was because I just realized with our early spring here in Portland we actually had some mint growing in the garden, and that was the only ingredient I didn’t think I had.

It sounds good on paper, and it’s an interesting way to conceptualize ratios for beginners, but I’ve found it to be useless in more advanced practice.

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.

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