Winter Drinks: 70 Essential Cold-Weather Cocktails

by Editors of Punch

A giftable collection of 70 cocktails built to fortify against the cold, featuring essential classics; updated riffs on traditional toddies, punches, nogs, and spiked coffees; and thoroughly modern drinks built to channel the season.

Packed with hot, spiced, and buttered seasonal imperatives, plus plenty of nostalgic favorites and homegrown creations, Winter Drinks offers the ultimate collection of cold-weather cocktails, both classic and modern. Curated by the PUNCH editorial team with the help of its network of top bartenders, each recipe has been tested and adapted to contemporary tastes, alongside creative tweaks that offer new ways to incorporate the season's flavors into foolproof drinks. PUNCH covers the ins and outs of making a spirit infusion, how to batch drinks for a crowd, how to bottle favorite stirred drinks and freeze them ahead for on-the-fly Manhattans and martinis, three-step syrups and shrubs to keep on hand, and tips and tools to build a winter-ready bar.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction, Food and Drink

160 pages, Hardcover

Published October 2, 2018

Reviews

[Tamara]

Cinnamon syrup? Yes, please.

[Benjamin Chandler · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a pretty solid collection of cocktail recipes.

It starts with a rundown of mixed drink families (cocktail, collins, highball, &c.) and words regarding some of the ingredients a mixer will need to fix the drinks, then dives into the recipes.

The recipes themselves range from everyone-knows-how-to-mix-it classics, like the Old Fashioned, to cocktails that time forgot, like the spicy Alabazam, to new mixes made by today's popular bartenders and the editors of Punch. The nice thing about these recipes is that they include many suggestions alternative ingredients. How can you "winter-ify" your Manhattan? The book has ideas. Not all the drinks here are warm—though toddies and their kin are well represented—but all of them have a seasonal element (or seasonal element suggestion) to suit wintery imbibing.

The photos are stylish and enticing. The text is easy to follow and informative. It really is a nice cocktail book and one I plan on referencing often.

[Elizabeth · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like the beginning of this book because it goes over the different types of mixed drinks and the basics. However, many of the recipes then go on to be of the type where you would have to go out to by very specialty liquors to complete them.

[Darbin O’Gill · Rating 2 out of 5]

Good book for those looking to break out of there favorites. Nice to take with you to a cabin in winter to use as a menu. The intro covers the basics. Basic is what you get with this book but it draws from some pretty impressive people for the recipes. I would recommend this for newbie mixers looking to elevate their game.

[John the Ponderer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great addition to my cocktail bookshelf.

[Valarie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cute little book, great pictures of lovely drinks for cold days and evenings. I would love to try a few of them, but I cannot afford all the liquors needed.

[Sarah · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book made me realize I am an excited consumer of fancy drinks but not at all excited to make them for myself.

[Mari Rydings · Rating 4 out of 5]

I borrowed this my the library and loved it so much I bought my own copy.