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This is a professional bartender's guide to over 500 classic and contemporary mixed drinks, showing how to create them, with helpful step-by-step instructions. This is the complete bartender's guide to creating and mixing over 500 classic cocktails and famous mixed drinks, all shown in more than 480 colour photographs. It contains a wealth of cocktail recipes, arranged by main ingredient, including gin, vodka, rum, whisky, tequila, brandy, liqueurs, wine and champagne, fortified wines, beer and cider. It offers suggestions for non-alcoholic cocktails, from refreshing fruit-based smoothies and soothers to rich coffee- and chocolate-based drinks. It includes a useful guide to drinks terminology to help the budding bartender differentiate between a cooler, a shooter and a sour. This illustrated guide is an essential reference book for aspiring bartenders, providing recipes for delicious cocktails for every occasion, whether a relaxing drink with family and friends or a more formal cocktail party. Featuring classic cocktails, as well as more recent innovations, this is a highly accessible guide for anyone wishing to create and mix their own drinks. Clear step-by-step instructions cover more specialist techniques, such as making flavoured syrups and spirits, steeping spirits and flaming sugar. Further advice on how to prepare for a party, plus useful information about alcohol and health - including tips for safe drinking and avoiding hangovers - make this the ultimate guide to creating cocktails and drinks at home.

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Stuart Walton is a prolific writer and commentator on wines and spirits, he is currently wine writer on the Sussex newspaper The Argus, Bella magazine, and the website www.winepages.com. He is also the author of The World Encyclopedia of Wine and co-author of The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Wines, Beers, Spirits and Liqueurs (both Lorenz Books), as well as You Heard It Through The Grapevine and Out Of It: A Cultural History of Intoxication.

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