The Classic & Craft Cocktail Recipe Book: The Definitive Guide to Mixing Perfect Cocktails from Aviation to Zombie

Raise the bar on all your cocktail creations.

Cocktail culture is thriving, and this indispensable guide puts you right in the mix. Unlike most cocktail recipe books, this comprehensive reference source is up-to-date with the latest trends in mixology. You’ll learn the secret to making time-honored classics, as well as innovative new craft cocktails.

The Classic & Craft Cocktail Recipe Book serves up all the recipes you’ll need with simple instructions, a convenient reference index, and practical tips for developing your personal mixing style. You even get a spritz of cocktail history and trivia.

The Classic & Craft Cocktail Recipe Book includes:

• 400+ cocktail recipes, new and old—Learn how to master the cocktail essentials and try your hand at the latest craft creations.
• Expert insights—Get the skinny on mixology techniques, proper barware and gadgets, cocktail history, and trivia.
• Comprehensive resources—This cocktail recipe book, complete with a quick reference index, puts a world of cocktail expertise at your fingertips.

Show your class with every glass with a cocktail recipe book that’ll make you an expert on the subject—and a hit at every party.

CLAIR MCLAFFERTY is a craft bartender and writer operating out of Birmingham, Alabama. In 2013, she quit her office job to learn the art of craft bartending. Making drinks led to researching and writing about them, and her current occupation was born. Her website, See Clair Write, is a chronicle of everything cocktail-related, which includes most aspects of her life.

Foreword writer JON SANTER is the owner of Prizefighter Bar in Emeryville, CA, which was voted one of Playboy Magazine's best classic bars of 2012 and one of the best bars of 2015 by Esquire Magazine. Prizefighter is Santer's (successful) attempt at "making drinking fun" once again. Jon is well known in the San Francisco Bay Area for his stints behind some of the city's best bars. Most notably, in 2006, he helped open the Prohibition-inspired Bourbon & Branch, the bar that helped usher in the speakeasy-style, craft cocktail scene.