Alcademics

More than 70 cocktails and spirits books (plus a few on cider, beer, and spiritzes) published in 2019. 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 new crew of drink books is out for your reading and drinking pleasure. What follows is information from the publishers (not reviews) and links to Amazon for purchasing. The Art of Distilling, Revised and Expanded: An Enthusiast's Guide to the Artisan Distilling of Whiskey, Vodka, Gin and other Potent... Read more →

Sixty-plus drink books released in 2018. Wowza. Read more →

Books on vermouth, coffee cocktails, whiskey, batching, women's history, dessert cocktails, astrological mixology, two updated classics, two on bar management, and a book on tabletop distilling.  Read more →

A huge story I wrote on the practical and theoretical best practices in making clarified milk punch in Cook's Science. Read more →

Hello from Tales of the Cocktail on Tour in Buenos Aires! I am attending three seminars today held at the lovely Intercontinental Hotel. (Then the rest of the time I'll just be in bars.) The first seminar was a talk by David Wondrich called Drinking the Americas from Punch to... Read more →

Over at Fine Cooking, I list a very simple recipe for an absinthe punch, courtesy of Pernod. It contains just absinthe, lime juice, water, and cucumbers, and it is delicious as all get-out. Check out the simple recipe over at FineCooking.com. Read more →