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This is a complete guide to the different types of drinks and mixers available, including spirits, fortified wines, beer, wine, and non-alcoholic drinks. It offers instructions for making over 600 cocktails and drinks, including the famed Dry Martini, Margarita and Grasshopper, as well as more unusual drinks such as the Blue Hawaiian, the Rite of Spring and Passion Punch. It includes a useful guide to drinks terminology to help you tell the difference between a chaser and an aperitif, a fizz and a frappe, and many more tips and information. It is an authoritative guide and essential reference book for every home bartender, covering a vast array of cocktails and drinks, and how to make them, with step-by-step instructions for making both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, and 825 photographs. There are classic formulas of the 1920s Jazz Age such as White Lady and Maiden's Blush, drinks from the 1980s cocktail revival such as Buck's Fizz and Green Caribbean, and trendsetting concoctions available in bars today such as Cosmopolitan and Titanic. From the Singapore Sling to a Virgin Bloody Mary, this accessible book has everything you need to know about cocktails and how to mix and enjoy them.

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9781844771882

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Stuart Walton has been writing about alcoholic drinks since the early 1990s. A prolific writer and commentator on wines and spirits, he is a contributor to World of Fine Wine and Decanter magazines.

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