Liquor & Drinks

This new expanded edition of Cocktails of the Movies serves up over 70 of the greatest cocktails to have featured on film.

Beer and Veg has everything you need to enjoy great craft beer with vegetarian and vegan food, including the best suggestions for how to perfectly pair your beer to whatever dish you're eating, as well as 70 recipes which use beer as an ingredient.

A fun gift book incorporating history, culture and cocktail recipes of one of the world's most versatile spirits

Burgundy has a far stronger hold over the imagination and passions of wine lovers than the relatively modest number of bottles it produces. This title features maps and more than 150 full-color photographs that lead readers on a journey through the well-worn vineyard paths and into the cellars of the Cote d'Or.

Picturesque Rioja, Spain's most prominent wine region, is a new world within a very old world. Winemaking here dates to Roman and medieval times. This title provides insider information on a region home to Spain's finest Tempranillo, its prestigious Albarino, and many other indigenous grape varieties such as Garnacha, Mazuelo, and Viura.

The no-nonsense guide to making your favourite beer at home

Essential wine pairings for everything from popcorn to veggie burgers to General Tsös Chicken, based on the wildly popular Grub Street column Sancerre and Cheetos go together like milk and cookies. The science behind this unholy alliance is as elemental as acid, fat, salt, and minerals. Wine pro Vanessa Price explains how to create your own pairings while proving you don¿t necessarily need fancy foods to unlock the joys of wine. Building upon the outsize success of her weekly column in Grub Street, Price offers delightfully bold wine and food pairings alongside hilarious tales from her own unlikely journey as a Kentucky girl making it in the Big Apple and in the wine business. Using language everyone can understand, she reveals why each dynamic duo is a match made in heaven, serving up memorable takeaways that will help you navigate any wine list or local bottle shop. Charmingly illustrated and bubbling with personality, Big Macs & Burgundy will open your mind to the entirely fun and entirely accessible wine pairings out there waiting to be discovered¿and make you do a few spit-takes along the way.

A complete physical and psychological guide to the land of the slim and healthy. The Juice Master's workshops and roadshows contain such antics as the 'Who Wants to Be a Slimionnaire?' game. This irreverent but hard-hitting book will ensure people never look at a burger in the same way again!Jason Vale is the ultimate health coach - 'The Juice Master' - and in this book he reveals how everyone can get slim, get fit, and get energised - or 'juiced'. His lively style and irreverent text nonetheless contains clear health messages for everyone:- give up what he calls 'drug foods' - those nutritionally worthless addictive substances, such as sugar ('white trash') and caffeine - and return to a fresh diet- eat the freshest plant ingredients and feel the fabulous health benefit of raw juice which is full of healthy enzymes- hit out at the food industry and reject its brainwashing advertising- use food combining to help your digestion.The Juice Master, who has been described as a mix between Anthony Robbins, Jamie Oliver and Eddie Izzard, offers a whole new approach to reframing the way you think about food, and offers plenty of surprises along the way.

Stop waiting in line and make your own delicious bubble teas with the 60 innovative recipes in Boba.

In need of some gin-spiration? Look no further!Whether you are a gin aficionado or simply gin-curious, this book from the experts at Craft Gin Club contains everything you'll ever need to know about the juniper spirit. With recipes for refreshing ice-cold punches through to warming winter serves, marinated main courses to delicious desserts, Gin O'Clock proves it's always a good time for gin, no matter the season. Packed with tips including:* Hosting the perfect gin-tasting* Growing your own garnishes* Making simple syrups* Creating your own gin truffles This is the definitive seasonal guide to gin exploration.

Boozy ice lollies you can make at home.The sun is out, the mercury is finally hitting 30 degees ... what better way to toast the start of summer than with a frozen cocktail - on a stick!With the onset of summer, the alcoholic ice-lolly trend is getting BIG. The adult popsicle market is one of the fastest-growing product areas in the ice cream market, with sales up 23% to GBP40m in the past year, according to Kantar Worldpanel.From high-end gourmet ice pops on the festival scene to mass-market popsicles that were a sell-out at Aldi, people's appetite for frozen booze is growing. Even Fortnum and Mason have produced their own alcoholic ice-lollies for the best people. But why go for shop-bought, when you can easily mix and freeze these drinks at home, and never spill a drop.This book provides 60 recipes for popsicles, slushies and ice-creamy frozen drinks, with stylish photography.

Is it better for a martini to be shaken, not stirred? Does it matter which order you add the ingredients of a Long Island Iced Tea? How many ice cubes can you add to a margarita without compromising the flavour?The perfect home begins with a blueprint and a dream, and your perfect cocktail should start the same way! The Architecture of the Cocktail will reveal the answers to all your cocktail queries and more.Focusing on the precise measurements to make the perfect drink as well as the recommended garnish and embellishments, you'll no longer have to guess what a cocktail should taste like.Laying out the exact measurements from the bottom of your glass to the top, you'll discover the order in which you should layer your liquor, the precise measurements needed, and even recommended brands.Not sure which stemware is appropriate? Consult the mini guide on identifying the correct stemware in the back of the book.Featuring 75 different cocktails and recipes (including specifications, notes, and embellishments), this is the perfect gift for the cocktail lover in your life. Don't waste another minute on watered-down cocktails - become a cocktail master with this beautifully illustrated guide.

Throughout history, waves of invaders have coveted the northeast corner of France: Attila the Hun in the fifth century, the English in the Hundred Years War, the Prussians in the nineteenth century. Yet this region which historians say has suffered more battles and wars than any other place on earth is also the birthplace of one thing the entire world equates with good times, friendship and celebration: champagne. Champagne is the story of the world's favourite wine. It tells how a sparkling beverage that became the toast of society during the Belle Epoque emerged after World War I as a global icon of fine taste and good living. The book celebrates the gutsy, largerthanlife characters whose proud determination nurtured and preserved the land and its grapes throughout centuries of conflict.

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Everything you ever wanted to know about beer but were too busy drinking it to ask.

Making wine on Europe's largest active volcano doesn't come easy. Frequent changes in topography, elevation, and weather influence each vintage and every winemaker has an interpretation of the evolving volcanic landscape. This is part of what makes Etna so exciting. The wines are as inviting as the terrain. For millennia the mountain served as a backdrop in the development of Europe. Today, the UNESCO Heritage Site is a destination for the world. American wine expert Benjamin Spencer goes beyond the vines to explore the history and rebirth of the region that has everyone talking about Sicily.

As the world's most popular beverage, tea has fascinated us, awakened us, motivated us, and calmed us for well over two thousand years.

Oz uses his trademark wit and irreverent style to teach you the basics of wine appreciation and show you how to get more out of a bottle of wine, and find out what is really inside. Divided into short, easy to read topics, now is the moment to grab that glass, learn about what's inside that bottle and taste while you read...

New edition of the essential handbook for all whisky lovers

Are you up to date on today's wine scene? Wine For Dummies, 6th Edition reveals what's in, what's out, and what's new in wine.

The original large format edition of Spirit of Place, exploring the fifty greatest distilleries in Scotland.

A collection of recipes for classic cocktails and other iconic drinks that appear in the James Bond novels and films.

Taste 5,000 years of brewing history as a time-travelling home-brewer rediscovers and re-creates the great beers of the past.