Classic Cocktail Guides and Retro Bartender Books

06/04/2022

What is your favorite way to enjoy gin?

With a variety of styles and flavor profiles that showcase herbs, citrus and spices, the global gin portfolio has something for everyone, from simple mixes to more complex libations.

08/11/2020

New York bar Death & Co has partnered with broadcaster TNT to create a cocktail menu that celebrates the release of the second series of The Alienist: Angel of Darkness

05/14/2020

An art historian, a culinary researcher, and a Twin Cities distillery teamed up to recreate the herbaceous drink.

05/14/2020

It's feeling a little too warm in Phoenix these days for sipping hot beverages, so we'll file this one away for November.

The smoky, creamy Hot Ale Flip is a testament to crude ingenuity.

04/04/2020

Has anyone tried this?

It's like blending your own booze. And sometimes it even tastes good.

03/28/2020

Are you stuck at home like we are? Hopefully you have a few staples in your pantry to try one of these cocktails.

Let's face it, we could all use a drink.

06/13/2017

It was a dark and stormy night...

The Dark 'n' Stormy, made with rum, ginger beer and lime, has a rich history rooted in Bermuda. This is the refreshing cocktail's origin story.

06/13/2017

FLASH SALE: For the next 48 hours, we are offering a 10% discount on Jack's Manual of Recipes for Fancy Mixed Drinks and How to Serve Them: A Pre Prohibition Cocktail Book. Use code MKCDDJD5 at checkout.

This tasty collection of classic cocktails was first published by J. A. Grohusko in the early days of the twentieth century as Jack's Manual on the Vintage and Production, Care and Handling of Wines, Liquors, Etc. - A Handbook of Information for Home, Club, or Hotel: Recipes for Fancy Mixed Drinks a...

06/06/2017

The Chicago Tribune recently ran an article on how our hometown of Chicago does not have much of a cocktail history (link in comments). But we would like to point out that we have available a facsimile edition of Straub's Manual of Mixed Drinks, published in 1913 by Jacques Straub, wine steward of the Blackstone Hotel in until .

Mr. Jacques Straub was the manager of the famed Pendennis Club of Louisville, Kentucky, and later the wine steward of the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago until Prohibition. According to The Hotel Monthly (1920), “Notwithstanding Mr. Straub’s knowledge of wines and liquors, he never dran...

06/06/2017

It's Negroni Week!

Imbibe Magazine's Negroni Week is a week-long celebration of one of the world’s great cocktails and an effort to raise money for charities around the world.

10/23/2016

https://www.vivino.com/wine-news/the-candy-and-wine-matchmaker

Learn which wine pairs with which tasty treat

05/29/2016

Dear readers: fellow page fan Amanda Hackett has a 1934 edition of Patrick Duffy's "The Official Mixer's Manual" for sale, and she's asking $400. If you are interested, drop a note in the comments below and she'll get back to you.