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

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templates that encompass all the old-fashioned, martini, daiquiri, sidecar, whisky highball, and flip.

Every step is explained on why they chose to do something a certain way, or why they chose a particular ingredient. if you can afford dozens of spirits and liqueurs (some of which are used in very few cocktails in the book), fine. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. And, unlike every other book you'll read this year, Cocktail Codex is packed with actual knowledge you can use in the real world.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. Each "main six" cocktail, for instance the Old Fashioned, will be broken down into its core (whiskey), balance (sugar/syrup), and seasoning (bitters).

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. e. think of a Manhattan as a Martini with the gin swapped for whisky and the white vermouth for red, or a Margarita as a tequila Sidecar).CALIFORNIA PROP 65 WARNING: This product can expose you to chemicals including arsenic and lead, which are known to the State of California to cause cancer. By understanding how elements like bright, tangy lemon juice balance a rich, heavy ingredient, you can then swap in other sources of acid — grapefruit juice, say, or yogurt — for infinite iterations.