Description
Product Description
"There is a perfect drink for every occasion and every mood. Carey and John are going to help you find it!" ―J. Kenji López-Alt
It's a quandary shared by adventurous and indecisive drinkers alike: What should I drink tonight?
Here to answer that question is Be Your Own Bartender. Through more than a dozen flowcharts, the book poses a series of questions designed to lead readers to their ideal drink. With more than 151 original recipes, there's a cocktail for every mood, taste, and occasion.
Are you after something tequila-based or gin-based? Do you like gin or really like gin? Are you ready to break out the muddler? And is your night winding down or just getting started? Whatever the answers, Be Your Own Bartender leads you to your destination―a cocktail effectively designed just for you. With some drinks that are truly adventurous and others that are friendlier to the cocktail novice, every recipe is created with the home bartender in mind.
Divided into chapters by spirit―with bonus flowcharts for brunch drinks, holiday parties, and true cocktail nerds―Be Your Own Bartender is the best way to discover the perfect cocktail for you, in a journey as user-friendly as it is fun. Illustrations throughout
Review
Food & Wine: "... A genius shortcut (or, rather, a series of genius shortcuts) to picking the perfect drink--flowcharts for different boozy occasions, leading you to the exact cocktail you didn't even know you wanted."
New York Post: "Best Book of the Week"
Old Liquors Magazine: "Remember those 'Choose Your Own Adventure' children's books? Well, this is the boozy version for grownups. No matter what you're in the mood for ... you'll find something that's perfect for what you want to make right now."
Liquor.com: "This cocktail book is aimed at home bartenders, not the pros, and uses cheeky, colorful flowcharts to help guide the reader to a potential cocktail... Anyone who has sat through a corporate PowerPoint presentation knows that flowcharts rarely are described as whimsical, but these actually do add a fun, interactive element to the book."
About the Author
Carey Jones is a food and spirits writer for publications including Food & Wine, Travel + Leisure, and Vogue and has appeared as a cocktail expert on NPR's Dinner Party Download. Her first book, Brooklyn Bartender, has been featured by Saveur, Forbes, and many others. Jones is the former managing editor of the James Beard Award-winning website Serious Eats.
John McCarthy is a consulting mixologist and spirits writer who has created bar programs for establishments in New York, Nantucket, and beyond. Together with Carey Jones, he is the co-author of "Liquor Cabinet Roulette," a weekly spirits column for the home bartender on the Food & Wine website. McCarthy has been featured in a series of cocktail videos for Saveur; he and his cocktails have been profiled in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and other publications; and he has appeared on-camera on Good Morning America and Today.com.