Cocktails Made Simple: Easy & Delicious Recipes for the Home Bartender

Simple book, great for a newbie making cocktails at home.

Good price. This book is chocked full of great recipes printed on quality paper with bright interesting pictures

Bought these for my boyfriend and he uses them regularly. Organized by alcohol type and easy to follow steps.

DESCRIPTION - At 6 ½ X 6 ½ inches and 140 pages, “Cocktails Made Simple” is a petite, colorful handbook that covers classic cocktail recipes. It is illustrated mostly through drawings and has only a few photos. The paper is matte except for the glossy cover. The handbook is divided into two major parts:• Part I (28 pages), “The Art of Cocktails,” covers bar-tending terms, tools, ingredients & techniques.• Part 2 (84 pages) covers cocktail recipes & histories, organized by liquor types: gin, rum, tequila, vodka, whiskey, brandy, sparkling wines, and liqueurs & aperitifs.• A Table of Contents, Measurements & Conversion Table, and list of websites are also included.MY TAKE - This is a cute beginners’ handbook that clearly explains classic cocktail recipes: margaritas, whiskey sours, mint juleps and Moscow mules, for example. It is meant for beginner home bartenders and stops short of including anything brand new, exotic or creative. I enjoyed reading about the history of some the cocktails. It would be a nice gift to go along with either a cocktail set or gift box of liquor and mixers.SOME MINOR ISSUES - I would have preferred the paper that makes up the interior pages to be more waterproof, instead of the thin matte paper used, which does not weather well near a wet bar. The book is rather stiff and does not stay open well when trying to read and make cocktails at the same time. The drawings of cocktail glasses get a bit repetitive, but they do aid in understanding how each drink is put together. The mini handbook could use a few more photos to change it up.Hope this information has helped. Thanks for reading my review.

I really love this book. It list all of your standard cocktails and is organized by the type of liquor used. It simple and easy to follow, with fun pictures.

Cocktails are so fun to make and this book provides a number of excellent recipes to elevate any home bartender’s game! You don’t have to go out for a well made cocktail with this book in your collection.

Very few recipes. Nothing new and does not offer alternatives to traditional ingredients. Tear out fav pages and toss

This book was very easy to read and had interesting content. All of the classic and popular cocktails are there. Brian is a fantastic mixologist and its great to have his book. Highly recommended!

Great piece of kit at a great price

If you are new to making cocktails for your guests, this is the ideal book for you. Super simple and easy to follow. It tells you all you need to know and what equipment you will need.Highly recomend.

It is a fair starter into the cocktail making world, however, after buying this I felt there wasn’t enough in it and went and bought a different cocktail book. I bought it because it had such good reviews but I have to say I was a tad disappointed. Yes, it has helpful pages at the start with regard to cocktail making equipment but the recipes were a bit boring and scarce. Maybe I’m being harsh but the next book I bought had many more recipes and the same details on equipment needed but for a much cheaper price!!

It would have been good to show a photo of the finished cocktail rather than only the instructions

No volumes to the ingredients you need e.g how much of what. Dont buy it