It's time for the annual Alcademics drink book round-up! Below are all the books that have come to my attention in 2020. I don't follow wine/beer closely so there are only a few in that section. The links below are to Amazon and to Bookshop.org. If you buy stuff after... Read more →
Dale DeGroff released a new version of his 2002 book The Craft of the Cocktail as The New Craft of the Cocktail [Amazon] [Bookshop] this summer. If you have been in the game for a while, you probably have the first version too. And if you have both books, you... Read more →
A last blast of new booze books before the end of the year! As usual, the descriptions come from the publishers and are not reviews. How to Drink Like a Royal by Albert W. A. Schmid buy on: [Amazon][Bookshop] "Royalty." A single word that invokes daydreams of champagne, lavish lifestyles,... Read more →
It's a big batch of booze books for fall! As typical, there is a big rush of publications before the holiday season. I have another post going up in later November of some books not available just yet, and then I'll publish my annual list of all the booze books... Read more →
In October 2019, the New York Times posted a story, "Witches are Having Their Hour" that I thought was pretty odd. They followed it up with, "When Did Everybody Become a Witch?" I guess witches are happening, and as we know now, anything that's happening happens in cocktails too. A... Read more →
This batch of new drink books, mostly released in September and early October 2020, includes everything from non-alcoholic drinks to cocktails inspired by gangsters, real and imagined, global cocktails hard seltzer and other fizzy drinks, two new books from The Aviary, and a lot more. It's kind of a lot,... Read more →
I recently read the new cocktail book by John deBary Drink What You Want: The Subjective Guide to Making Objectively Delicious Cocktails. I guess I expected it to be a superquick book of easy classics, as it features a lot of pictures and giant fonts (and a Margarita on the... Read more →
I recently read the book, Just the Tonic: A Natural History of Tonic Water by Kim Walker and Mark Nesbitt. As you know, I also wrote a self-published book about the history of the Gin & Tonic, but mine doesn't have the rich illustrations of this handsome hardbound book -... Read more →