The Complete Cocktail Maker

This is a professional bartender's guide to over 500 classic and contemporary mixed drinks, showing how to create them, with helpful step-by-step instructions. This is the complete bartender's guide to creating and mixing over 500 classic cocktails and famous mixed drinks, all shown in more than 480 colour photographs. It contains a wealth of cocktail recipes, arranged by main ingredient, including gin, vodka, rum, whisky, tequila, brandy, liqueurs, wine and champagne, fortified wines, beer and cider.

It offers suggestions for non-alcoholic cocktails, from refreshing fruit-based smoothies and soothers to rich coffee- and chocolate-based drinks. It includes a useful guide to drinks terminology to help the budding bartender differentiate between a cooler, a shooter and a sour. This illustrated guide is an essential reference book for aspiring bartenders, providing recipes for delicious cocktails for every occasion, whether a relaxing drink with family and friends or a more formal cocktail party.

Featuring classic cocktails, as well as more recent innovations, this is a highly accessible guide for anyone wishing to create and mix their own drinks. Clear step-by-step instructions cover more specialist techniques, such as making flavoured syrups and spirits, steeping spirits and flaming sugar. Further advice on how to prepare for a party, plus useful information about alcohol and health - including tips for safe drinking and avoiding hangovers - make this the ultimate guide to creating cocktails and drinks at home.