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Difford’s Guide to Cocktails Book 18th Edition
Our Eighteenth Edition hardback has 3,081 cocktail recipes, all accompanied by a photograph. It is a monster 656 pages, 6cm (2.3 inches) thick, and we...
Roundbuilding book
The second and expanded edition of Daniel Waddy and Kevin Armstrong's seminal bartending manual.
Difford’s Guide to Cocktails Book 17th Edition
We've sold out of this edition, and the good news is that the NEW Eighteenth Edition is now available to pre-order - published 12th December 2024
An Anthology of 12 Classic Cocktails
Written by Jake F Burger
Difford’s Guide to Cocktails Book 16th Edition
We've sold out of this edition, and the good news is that the NEW Eighteenth Edition is now available to pre-order - published 12th December 2024
Difford’s Guide to Cocktails Fifteenth Edition
!!!!!!!! NEW Eighteenth Edition now available to pre-order - published 12th December 2024 !!!!!!!!
London Dry: The Real History of Gin
The Real History of Gin is a befitting title for Ted Bruning’s book which questions the accepted history of gin, pretty much from the 4th Century BCE...
Mixing Cosmopolitans: The Pouring Tales
Daniel Staub, the mind behind Zurich-based bars Flatbrook Attic and The Last Toucan, is quite the seasoned traveller.
Ten Drinks That Changed the World
Writer and bartender Seki Lynch explores celebrated spirits around the globe, from the likes of vodka and gin, to the lesser-known baijiu and shochu.
Schofield’s Fine and Classic Cocktails
Daniel and Joe Schofield’s cocktail book is not just any collection of drinks.
A Cognac Lover’s Guide to Classic Cocktails
Inspired by The Cordon Bleu Challenge, which started back in the early noughties when Michael Butt challenged bartenders to remake classic cocktails o...
The Cocktail Bar: Notes for an Owner & Operator
There’s a lesson to be learned in reading The Cocktail Bar. Don’t be disillusioned by its size. This handy and practical guide delivers wise direction...
The Dead Rabbit Mixology & Mayhem
Sean Muldoon and Jack McGarry, founders of award-winning bar The Dead Rabbit Grocery and Grog, alongside esteemed bar manager Jillian Vose, present th...
The Cocktail Companion
Cheryl Charming has been collecting snippets of cocktail trivia for almost 40 years which has now birthed The Cocktail Companion, Cheryl’s latest tome...
Shaken: Drinking with James Bond & Ian Fleming
Ian Fleming’s Bond novels feature a cocktail repertoire worthy of celebration - one which has sparked the creation of this cocktail book - Shaken: Dri...
Meehan's Bartender Manual
Famous for PDT, that New York bar accessed via a phone booth within a hot dog joint, Jim Meehan is an acclaimed bartender with a profound understandin...
Classic Cocktails
For the home cocktail maker, Salvatore Calabrese’s Classic Cocktails is a very approachable easy to follow tome with 206 easy to follow cocktail recip...
Beachbum Berry's Potions of the Carribbean
Jeff Berry spent five years working on Potions of the Caribbean: 500 Years of Tropical Drinks and the People Behind Them. He describes it as the most ...
Brewed Awakening
A geeky guide to craft beer that is all about making what was once obscure accessible, and it's done through a scrap book-style page layout, with grap...
All Beer Guide
One of the most simple and easy-to-read guides to what is often a needlessly opaque part of the market.
Difford's Guide 365 Days of Cocktails
This book was inspired by the Cocktail Of The Day on this very website, which in turn resulted from a visit I (Simon Difford) made to Barcelona back i...
The Dead Rabbit Drinks Manual
The cover proclaims secret recipes and barroom tales from two Belfast boys who conquered the cocktail world. The two Belfast boys in question are Sean...
Bitters: A Spirited History of a Classic Cure-All
Cookbook, project guide and barman's manifesto this is a compendium of more than 100 cocktail recipes, featuring traditional favourites as well as gem...
American Bar
500 recipes are more than sufficient, intones Charles in his suitably Germanic introduction. What to do, what not to do, and what cardinal rules not t...
