Post Tagged with: "book review"

Drink Spirits / December 9, 2011 12:30 am

The PDT Cocktail Book – Review

The PDT Cocktail Book is an essential new cocktail book that features over 200 pages of amazing cocktail recipes.

Drink Spirits / October 19, 2011 7:03 pm

Bitters by Brad Thomas Parsons Book Review

Brad Thomas Parsons' book Bitters: A Spirited History of A Classic Cure-All misses its mark and doesn't go deep enough into its topic.

Drink Spirits / August 12, 2010 2:39 pm

Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition Review

In many ways it’s almost unfathomable to think that there was a time when drinking alcohol in the United States was illegal. The US has a deep history with distilled spirits dating back to the country’s inception, when sugarcane and molasses were shipped from the Caribbean to the colonies where it was made into rum.  Even the nation’s first president, George Washington, made it a point [...]

Drink Spirits / April 30, 2010 10:05 am

Esquire Drinks by David Wondrich Review

I’ve been spending time going over Tony Abou-Ganuim‘s new book “The Modern Mixologist” and procrastinating writing up my review of it. I don’t think I really could put my finger on why I wasn’t falling in love with Tony’s beautifully crafted book, until I got my hands on a copy of David Wondrich’s “Esquire Drinks: An Opinionated & Irreverent Guide to Drinking”. Right off [...]

Drink Spirits / April 10, 2010 10:01 am

Chasing The White Dog: An Amateur Outlaw’s Adventures in Moonshine

Max Watman’s Chasing The White Dog: An Amateur Outlaw’s Adventures in Moonshine is one of those great books that sucks you into a world and then leaves you feeling like you have a deeper understanding of the space. Rather than just present a straight line history of distilling, both legal and illegal, Max Watman weaves the history with a personal [...]