THE BARTENDERS MANIFESTO

JAMES BEARD AWARD WINNER Offering a foundational approach to cocktails this manual from a James Beard Award winning trailblazer will have you understanding and creating original drinks like a seasoned barkeep Take a raucous romp through the essential stages of fashioning cocktails and learn the hows and whys of bartending with acclaimed mixologist Toby Maloney and the team from The Violet Hour When the pioneering cocktail bar opened in Chicago in 2007 it set a high standard with an innovative training program that teaches not just how to replicate classic cocktail recipes flawlessly but how to embrace ingenuity make smart decisions and create original inspired recipes from rote Like cooks who can peer into their pantry and whip up dinner on the fly no recipe needed those who follow the methods in The Bartender s Manifesto will have the technical foundation and confidence to take their cocktail skills to the next level and fabricate a drink from any ingredients at hand First dive deep into the mechanics of creating cocktails with the right balance texture aroma and temperature From there Toby goes well beyond the fine tuned mechanics of the craft covering how to kickstart the creative process and bring professional level complexity and sophisticati