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  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Cocktails Illustrated: 400+ Recipes for the Home Bartender, from Spirit Forward to Zero Proof

Cocktails Illustrated: 400+ Recipes for the Home Bartender, from Spirit Forward to Zero Proof

America's Test Kitchen

Hardcover

EntertainingLiquorNon-Alcoholic

Publisher Price: $45.00

ISBN10: 1948703416
ISBN13: 9781948703413
Publisher: America's Test Kitchen
Published: Nov 4 2025
Pages: 496
Weight: 4.50
Height: 1.50 Width: 9.40 Depth: 10.50
Language: English
Take a master class in bartending with this luxe cocktail cookbook featuring 400+ recipes covering 15 essential categories!

Cook's Illustrated experts share all the hallmark techniques, formulas, science, and lore behind your favorite spirited and nonalcoholic libations.

Unleash your inner bartender with a demystifying dive into the world of classic and contemporary cocktail making. Cocktails Illustrated is that rare book: coffee-table gorgeous with hundreds of photographs and illustrations; comprehensive, instructive, and practical; and as fun and playful as a great cocktail should be. Organized around categories including martinis, Manhattans, highballs, sours, flips, tropical, and more, it's the ultimate how-to cocktail cookbook.

  • Shake up your repertoire: Hundreds of creative kitchen-tested cocktails (and a few of our favorite bar snacks) and ways to customize them based on your preferences, from spirit-forward drinks to zero-proof cocktails.
  • Distill professional secrets: Techniques, including aging and clarifying cocktails and fat-washing spirits, are made accessible through clear, engaging explanations and how-to photography.
  • Sip on some science: Learn from the Cook's Illustrated experts, including why glassware shape matters, the chemistry of proper cocktail dilution, and when and how to use ingredients like tinctures or flamed citrus to enhance flavors.
  • Belly up to the bar: Extensive introduction pours out no-nonsense advice on what bottles, tools, and glassware you really need, plus clearly teaches methods including shaking, swizzling, muddling, citrus juicing, ice making, and more.
  • Peruse the backbar: Bonus section elevates cocktails with homemade infused liqueurs, bitters and tinctures, syrups and shrubs, rim salts and sugars, and garnishes.

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