Raising the Bar: A Bottle-by-Bottle Guide to Mixing Masterful Cocktails at Home

by Brett Adams, Jacob Grier

An accessible guide to building a home bar one bottle at a time, this book gives readers tools for mixing fantastic cocktails without investing time and money in niche single-use ingredients.

There's a basic cocktail formula for building a bar that is anything but ordinary.

Spirit + Sugar + Acidity/Bitterness = Tasty Cocktail

Instead of drawing on esoteric bottles of liquor, complicated syrups, and obscure sodas, this book takes readers through the home bar bottle by bottle, ensuring that every ingredient is versatile enough to be used to the last drop.

Building on a very basic cocktail pantry, each chapter thoughtfully introduces a new bottle and explains how it opens new possibilities for cocktails. Each chapter builds on the one before, so readers never encounter recipes calling for unfamiliar spirits or ingredients. RAISING THE BAR allows readers to set their own pace and maximize the usefulness of the spirits they bring home.

This book will be a go-to reference for the home bartender that is practical enough for the day-to-day and special enough for a party. With handsome graphics and a smart focus on what's already in stock, it's what home mixologists can turn to when they want creative and delightful drinks without a bar cart full of single-use bottles.

Perfect
Those new to cocktail making looking for accessible, easy-to-mix cocktails
Cocktail and entertaining enthusiasts,
Anyone wanting inspiration on how to set up a well-stocked bar at home

Genres: Cookbooks, Cocktails, Cooking, Food, Food and Drink

304 pages, Hardcover

Published November 29, 2022

About the author

Ever since I discovered that the 1000 page tome my parents left resting against the kitchen TV was not some boring political treatise, but in fact the greatest piece of fantasy ever written―I'm talking, of course, about The Lord of the Rings―I've wanted to write. I was fascinated not only by Tolkien's world and characters, but by how he could plot something so large and intricate.

Which is why my first novel, Dark Matter, was a biology-based-paranormal-fantasy-with-a-twist-of-science-fiction-adventure-and-just-a-hint-of-thriller. It took five years to write and led to a lot of counseling.

My second book, Strawman Made Steel, is hard-boiled detective fiction with a side of sci-fi, and simpler ;)

The third is a thriller, to be published by Fremantle Press in September 2022, titled Blood and Ink.

Kind regards,
Brett.

Reviews

[Jonathan Sigrist · Rating 5 out of 5]

If looking for a single book to aid in starting a home bar, I would be hard-pressed to come up with a better recommendation. Brilliantly structured, such that simply acquiring bottles in the order laid out by each chapter ensures that the reader has a steadily expanding variety of cocktails to sample, and avoids the frustration so common to these books where half of the recipes are inaccessible due to rare, obscure, or expensive ingredients. Includes just enough history and production context to give a solid foundation of understanding without sacrificing pace or readability.

An excellent introduction to home mixology that retains long-term bookshelf relevance as a reliable recipe book for hundreds of classic and modern cocktails approachable for anyone with even a moderate home bar collection.

[Charlie · Rating 5 out of 5]

actually very informative and helpful def gonna read again and keep studying