Liquor & Drinks

Featuring more than 50 recipes, fascinating stories, tidbits, and a step-by-step guide to becoming a vodka snob, Brittany Jacques offers a beginner's guide to proper glassware, equipment needed for the home bar, and the all-important vodka lingo.

Lush Life is a California dream of a cookbook that will inspire readers to eat and drink what¿s in season, grow their own, cook it fresh, and pour a luscious beverage.

Join Jane Peyton, the UK's first Beer Sommelier of the Year, as she distils practical advice from the incredible history of the nation's favourite beverage, spanning the earliest evidence of beer 13,000 years ago, its central role in monasteries and on naval ships, its significance in the discovery of cholera, and its enduring popularity today.

The perfect drinks book packed full of knowledge and entertainment from two of the UK's leading drinks experts, writers and comedians.

Enjoying Bourbon gives comprehensive, practical information while offering a working guide to the pleasures, flavor intricacies, and overall enjoyment of this evergreen and popular spirit.

Jaci Burton continues her Boots and Bouquets series with this gorgeous accidentally-in-love romance readers say is 'a lovely summer read'!

The Closet Of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened: Newly Edited, With Introduction, Notes, And Glossary, By Anne MacdonellThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and table elements, giving our readers the feel of holding a 'fresh and newly' reprinted and/or revised edition, as opposed to other scanned & printed (Optical Character Recognition - OCR) reproductions.2. Correction of imperfections: As the work was re-created from the scratch, therefore, it was vetted to rectify certain conventional norms with regard to typographical mistakes, hyphenations, punctuations, blurred images, missing content/pages, and/or other related subject matters, upon our consideration. Every attempt was made to rectify the imperfections related to omitted constructs in the original edition via other references. However, a few of such imperfections which could not be rectified due to intentional\unintentional omission of content in the original edition, were inherited and preserved from the original work to maintain the authenticity and construct, relevant to the work.We believe that this work holds historical, cultural and/or intellectual importance in the literary works community, therefore despite the oddities, we accounted the work for print as a part of our continuing effort towards preservation of literary work and our contribution towards the development of the society as a whole, driven by our beliefs. We are grateful to our readers for putting their faith in us and accepting our imperfections with regard to preservation of the historical content. HAPPY READING!

Wherever we live in the world, there is one thing nearly every person wakes up to: coffee. It is how we start our day. For many coffee lovers, it is also what gets us through the day - and for much of coffee''s history, most people were happy with the coffee they had. Or they simply didn''t know better. However, the past decade has seen a veritable explosion in the quality - and variety - of coffee available to consumers. Moreover, coffee drinkers have become infinitely more knowledgeable and discriminating about the coffee they purchase. The source of the bean and how it is processed to bring out the most exquisite flavors is a matter of intense debate. Is light or dark roast better? Colombian or Vietnamese beans? The list goes on. Here in this handy guidebook we honor them all - and give readers a convenient way to explore the great spectrum of coffees and discover what suits their own individual sensibility. To borrow an expression: it is not only time to smell the coffee. It is a great time to smell many different coffees!

This book will guide and show you the best ingredients and methods for the perfect classical cocktail recipes. There are 42 authentic classical cocktail recipes to learn, including how to make a classic Martini, Manhattan, our version of Bloody Mary Spicy, or a simple Gin and Tonic, you name it! Included also is the A-Z of bartender lingo which helps you to understand some bartending terms or words used in cocktail mixing. This book is perfect for beginners, house bartenders and pros. Bring back the taste and flavours of old school cocktail drinks. Anyone can make great cocktails. So grab yourself a copy now, start mixing, invite your friends and family and sip sip hurray!...best gift option too for any occasion, to anyone special to you or for a aspiring bartender.

A delightful romp through Americäs Golden Age of CocktailsThe decades following the American Civil War burst with invention¿they saw the dawn of the telephone, the motor car, electric lights, the airplane¿but no innovation was more welcome than the beverage heralded as the ¿cocktail.¿ The Gilded Age, as it came to be known, was the Golden Age of Cocktails, giving birth to the classic Manhattan and martini that can be ordered at any bar to this day. Scores of whiskey drinks, cooled with ice chips or cubes that chimed against the glass, proved doubly pleasing when mixed, shaken, or stirred with special flavorings, juices, and fruits. The dazzling new drinks flourished coast to coast at sporting events, luncheons, and balls, on ocean liners and yachts, in barrooms, summer resorts, hotels, railroad train club cars, and private homes.From New York to San Francisco, celebrity bartenders rose to fame, inventing drinks for exclusive universities and exotic locales. Bartenders poured their liquid secrets for dancing girls and such industry tycoons as the newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst and the railroad king ¿Commodore¿ Cornelius Vanderbilt.Cecelia Tichi offers a tour of the cocktail hours of the Gilded Age, in which industry, innovation, and progress all take a break to enjoy the signature beverage of the age. Gilded Age Cocktails reveals the fascinating history behind each drink as well as bartenders¿ formerly secret recipes. Though the Gilded Age cocktail went ¿underground¿ during the Prohibition era, it launched the first of many generations whose palates thrilled to a panoply of artistically mixed drinks.

"This is arguably the best of the titles so far in the 'Finest Wines' series and the best book about German wines in English for a generation." --John Winthrop Haeger, author of North American Pinot Noir"The author's voice is consistently engaged and enthusiastic, and his book should appeal to a general readership of wine lovers as well as to anyone with a professional interest in German wine." --David Schildknecht, German wine authority for The Wine Advocate and the Oxford Companion to Wine

An enchanting collection of magical cocktails, punches and teas that function both as delicious recipes and as effective spells, written by witch YouTube influencer Anais Alexandre.

A fascinating tour of Worthing's pub scene, charting the town's taverns, alehouses and watering holes, from past centuries to more recent times.

Will tea bags come between Claire and Richard? It''s 1987 and Claire''s Tea Shop is losing business to herbal teas that promise health benefits, the doughnut shop that serves smokers, and Claire''s ultimate nemesis: tea bags that offer convenience. So intently focused on saving her business, Claire''s romantic feelings for Richard, her husband of almost 20 years, have all but evaporated. Seeing his wife struggle leaves Richard''s heart steeped in sadness. She refuses his every offer of help but it''s almost Halloween and Claire must turn things around by Christmas or risk closing her store forever. Richard takes one last courageous stand: He suggests Claire sell tea bags. Trick or Tea is the second short story prequel to Lori Wolf-Heffner''s Tea Shop for Two, the first book in her sweet romance series, Love on Belmont. If you love books and tea, soak up the flavours of this fun romance while you enjoy your favourite cuppa.

A beautifully packaged look at the world's most sought-after whiskies, with detailed photography of each bottle.