Book Review: The Bartender's Bible

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Book Review: The Bartender's Bible

Unread postby bourbonv » Fri Nov 26, 2004 12:16 pm

The Bartender's Bible: 1001 Mixed Drinks and Everything You Need to Know to Set Up Your Bar, by Gary Regan. New York: John Boswell Management, Inc., 1991. Contents, Introduction, Bibliography, Index, Illustrated, Pp. 340.

This book is a very good place to start when setting up your home bar. The book starts with what liquors to start with for a small bar (bourbon is first on the list) and what to add for a basement bar. This is continued with other needs for the bar starting with liqueurs and cordials, beers, wines, condiments, garnishes and finally equipment. The only illustrations in the book are illustrations of different pieces of equipment and glassware.

The chapters are broken down by the basic spirit used in the drink and bourbon has the honor of being the first chapter of drinks. He gives a basic definition of the product and its different styles such as Dry Gin, Dutch Gin, Old Tom Gin and Plymouth Gin. There is also a very brief discussion of how the product is made. The comes the drink recipes. They are very clearly written and lists all of the ingredients needed to make the drink. The real nice feature of this book is that it is bound in a spiral notebook fashion so that when you turn to a recipe the pages lay flat and open.

This is a good book to have in your bourbon library. It has an adequate selection of drink recipes and some good advice for setting up your home bar.

Mike Veach
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Unread postby bourbonv » Fri Jan 14, 2005 10:36 am

I had a friend ask the other day for advise on setting up a basement bar. I was able to copy the chapter from this book for him and he was quite pleased with the advise on setting up a bar.

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