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Brooklyn Spirits: Craft Distilling and Cocktails from the World's Hippest Borough
“Brooklyn Spirits is not just a cocktail book. It’s a shared experience that’s a testament to the Brooklyn scene.”
-- Damon Boelte, host of The Speakeasy on Heritage Radio Network
In the popular tradition of farm-to-table cookbooks, Brooklyn Spirits: Craft Distilling and Cocktails from the World's Hippest Borough , is the first distillery-to-glass cocktail book. Over the past two decades, Brooklyn has become the epicenter of a Slow Food-inspired food and drink revolution. Brooklyn distillers, restaurateurs, bartenders, and cocktail aficionados are changing the way we drink by bringing back old techniques and recipes, and creating new ones that focus on small-batch distilling and fresh, local ingredients. In 2002, craft distilling was made legal in New York State for the first time since Prohibition. Many Brooklyn-based producers such as Greenhook Ginsmiths, Cacao Prieto, Industry City Distilling, Brueckelen, and others have taken advantage of this.
Organized into chapters focused on these distilleries, each chapter will take an in-depth look at the distillery's story and the spirits they offer, and will present half-a-dozen cocktail recipes. Within these chapters, there will be sub-sections on several varying topics: a look at the bars and restaurants serving the Brooklyn-produced spirits; highlights on the work of local mixologists; and subsections on the history of distilling in Brooklyn.
The book will consist of:
* Approximately 70 drink recipes like the Deathbed Manhattan, One Mint Julep, and the Kickstarter (a mix of updated classics and original cocktails contributed by Brooklyn distillers and bartenders, and the authors).
* 15 recipes for syrups, bitters, and other ingredients to improve your cocktails.
Brooklyn Spirits presents an inspiring mix of recipes, profiles, and history, encouraging readers to not only make their own cocktails, but to get involved on a do-it-yourself level, and, in the true Brooklyn spirit, invent cocktails of their own.
-- Damon Boelte, host of The Speakeasy on Heritage Radio Network
In the popular tradition of farm-to-table cookbooks, Brooklyn Spirits: Craft Distilling and Cocktails from the World's Hippest Borough , is the first distillery-to-glass cocktail book. Over the past two decades, Brooklyn has become the epicenter of a Slow Food-inspired food and drink revolution. Brooklyn distillers, restaurateurs, bartenders, and cocktail aficionados are changing the way we drink by bringing back old techniques and recipes, and creating new ones that focus on small-batch distilling and fresh, local ingredients. In 2002, craft distilling was made legal in New York State for the first time since Prohibition. Many Brooklyn-based producers such as Greenhook Ginsmiths, Cacao Prieto, Industry City Distilling, Brueckelen, and others have taken advantage of this.
Organized into chapters focused on these distilleries, each chapter will take an in-depth look at the distillery's story and the spirits they offer, and will present half-a-dozen cocktail recipes. Within these chapters, there will be sub-sections on several varying topics: a look at the bars and restaurants serving the Brooklyn-produced spirits; highlights on the work of local mixologists; and subsections on the history of distilling in Brooklyn.
The book will consist of:
* Approximately 70 drink recipes like the Deathbed Manhattan, One Mint Julep, and the Kickstarter (a mix of updated classics and original cocktails contributed by Brooklyn distillers and bartenders, and the authors).
* 15 recipes for syrups, bitters, and other ingredients to improve your cocktails.
Brooklyn Spirits presents an inspiring mix of recipes, profiles, and history, encouraging readers to not only make their own cocktails, but to get involved on a do-it-yourself level, and, in the true Brooklyn spirit, invent cocktails of their own.
272 pages, Hardcover
First published October 14, 2014
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About the author
Peter T. Fornatale
14 books12 followersBestselling author Peter Thomas Fornatale has spent a good part of the last two decades drinking in Brooklyn. He's also been a publishing professional in that time frame at Simon and Schuster and Random House. He took cocktail classes from legendary New York bartender (and author) Dale DeGroff and spent a summer supporting a horseracing habit by bartending at the acclaimed Chez Sophie in Saratoga Springs. Cocktails are literally in his blood: his grandfather, John T. Flynn, was a brand manager at Seagram's for many decades. He is also a site coordinator at The Park Slope CSA, putting him in close touch with the best local ingredients (and the people who buy them).
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July 8, 2018
If you enjoy cocktails, success stories of startups and/or second acts where people ditch the jobs they hate and take up something that has always intrigued them, as well as the story of underdog communities that are up-and-coming where people can still afford rents and living expenses, then Brooklyn Spirits: Craft Distilling and Cocktails from the World's Hippest Borough is the book for you.
This lovely hardbound book is chock full of profiles of small craft distillery start-ups, paired with oodles of recipes, lovely photos, bits of cocktail history and lore, and will have you contemplating your next long weekend in a borough you'd likely never envisioned as a vacation destination.
Moreover, if you know anyone relocating to NYC (let alone to Brooklyn), this would make a great going away/housewarming gift that you and they can enjoy for years to come.
Truly a lovely book, and I can't wait to make my own shrubs, cocktail sherries, and an assortment of delicious-sounding libations. Moreover, I'm keen to get to our local liquor store to see if I can find any of these Brooklyn products. The game is afoot!
This lovely hardbound book is chock full of profiles of small craft distillery start-ups, paired with oodles of recipes, lovely photos, bits of cocktail history and lore, and will have you contemplating your next long weekend in a borough you'd likely never envisioned as a vacation destination.
Moreover, if you know anyone relocating to NYC (let alone to Brooklyn), this would make a great going away/housewarming gift that you and they can enjoy for years to come.
Truly a lovely book, and I can't wait to make my own shrubs, cocktail sherries, and an assortment of delicious-sounding libations. Moreover, I'm keen to get to our local liquor store to see if I can find any of these Brooklyn products. The game is afoot!
October 28, 2014
Far more than a cocktail book and also far more than a survey of what's happening in Brooklyn. As craft distilling in the NY area continues to grow, it will be fascinating to look back at this book and its insightful, detailed account of its birth and first decade. Gorgeously mounted and photographed.
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