Doctors and Distillers was featured in two three four five six seven eight gift guides this season! Vinepair includes it among The 10 Best Booze Books to Buy This Holiday Season. Robert Haynes-Peterson recommended it as a gift on AlcoholProfessor.com. Frank Whitman recommended it on CT Insider. And A Lush... Read more →
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 →
More than 70 cocktails and spirits books (plus a few on cider, beer, and spiritzes) published in 2019. Read more →
It's time for the big list of pre-holiday cocktail book releases! Read more →
Long gone are the days when there were only a few drink books out each year; now it's a few every month. Below I've listed the drink books coming out mostly in in September and the beginning of October 2019. There will be another round-up around Thanksgiving most likely, as... Read more →
A gin distilled through recently-crushed whole oysters. Read more →
Sixty-plus drink books released in 2018. Wowza. Read more →
Behold! Here is my round-up of all the cocktails and spirits books (plus a few others) that were released in 2017. This year, beyond the annual deluge of whisky books, there are books aping the bartender lifestyle (Drink Like a Bartender, Straight Up), more narrative books (I Hear She's a Real Bitch, By the Smoke and the Smell), and recipe books seeking to simplify the process (3 Ingredient Cocktails, The Imbible, Road Soda) rather than reveal the secrets of complex drinks from top bars. All in all, another great year for reading about drinking. Read more →