The New Cocktail Hour: The Essential Guide to Hand-Crafted Drinks

Ace the specialty of art mixed drinks - or simply get ready to dazzle your companions - with this assortment of drink plans and engaging thoughts for the home barkeep!

Drink cherishing kin André and Tenaya Darlington tell you the best way to make mixed drinks from each time, reconsidered for a contemporary sense of taste. Dial back the sugar, and burden up on quality fixings. The New Cocktail Hour tells you the best way to blend unimaginable art mixed drinks and gives you a total history of great plans and spirits. You've never observed a mixed drink book like this previously! Special highlights include:

214 vintage and current plans, total with tasting notes

Tips on blending mixed drinks including pizza to clams

Recommended brands for building a very much loaded bar

Occasional thoughts for syrups, bushes, and nursery to-glass drinks

Guidance for facilitating create mixed drinks gatherings at home

About the Author

AndrÃ©arlington is the co-author of Booze & Vinyl, The New Cocktail Hour, and Movie Night Menus. He is a restaurant critic and drinks columnist who currently resides in Philadelphia, PA.

Tenaya Darlington is a food writer and educator in Philadelphia. By day, she teaches writing at Saint Joseph's University; by night she pens the cheese blog Madame Fromage (madamefromageblog.com). Her book, The Di Bruno Bros. House of Cheese, may be the first cheese guide to suggest pairing cheese with cocktails. Her writing has also appeared in Cooking Light, Global Traveler, and the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Andre and Tenaya are also co-authors of Turner Classic Movies: Movie Night Menus and Booze and Vinyl.

New addition to my review... This book makes a great gift. I have a few extra copies on hand as a quick grab hostess gift. It's the same price as a bottle of wine but the beautiful pictures, fun snippets of history and great recipes make it far more memorable. It can easily be upsized with a bottle or two of booze or bar supplies.Now my original review... The New Cocktail Hour is life-changing! There are so many great things about this book, where do I start… Let’s start with the reason I bought this book, the booze! My husband’s idea of a cocktail was pour two finger widths of vodka in a glass. Add Diet Sprite. Toss in some ice. Stir with finger. My go to beverage lived in black box in my fridge. This book is FULL of interesting and delicious cocktails. We are now far more sophisticated when ordering drinks, and hosting guests. We are well on our way to becoming cocktail snobs. I have pulled it out at several dinner parties when a guest has asked about a beverage I am serving. It is an intriguing centerpiece to conversation.This book is easy to follow, even for a novice. I was a bit intimidated when I first picked it up, because several of the ingredients were unfamiliar. The book has great descriptions and explanations for the less experienced bartender, like, what exactly are bitters.-Claire Fraizo

I knew i was going to love this book when i read the first line of the introduction: "We're not bartenders ... we're lushes". These are people who simply love their cocktails. Most cocktail books are pretty much a collection of recipes. great to have, but there is so much more that goes into it. a couple of things that makes this book a standout for me:they give you really good info on specific brands of alcohol - differences between various vermouths, etc, and gives you guidance as to which drinks each style would be good in.they offer food pairing for each drink -- i LOVE this. i don't think i've ever seen that in a cocktail book.the cocktails are researched as to origin, how they got their name, etc. is this necessary to make a cocktail? No, but i really enjoy that type of trivia. i debated whether to get this in kindle version or hard copy. i opted to get the hard copy - i'm really enjoying going through the book.-Onestepahead

We are really enjoying trying out the cocktails in this book. The history of cocktails is fascinating and the recommendations on brands best in each drink are spot on. Their input made my home concocted Manhattan to a whole new level! The only addition I would add in the future is a way to cross reference ingredients on hand with the recipes it the book. Thanks to this book, my husband and I are enjoying a cocktail renaissance which is a fun new hobby for us.-Dawn Unstot

The New Cocktail Hour: The Essential Guide to Hand-Crafted Drinks