The Bartender's Bible: 1001 Mixed Drinks and Everything You Need to Know to Set Up Your Bar [Mass Market Paperback]

Gary Regan (Author), (None) (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 1993

Mix Drinks Like A Pro

Now you can with this indispensable handbook, the most thorough'and thoroughly accessible'bartending guide ever created for both professional and home use. Encyclopedic in scope and filled with clear, simple instructions, The Bartender's Bible includes information on:

• Stocking and equipping a bar'from liquors and mixers to condiments, garnishes, and equipment

• Shot-by-shot recipes for over 1,000 cocktails and mixed drinks from bourbon to rum to whiskey

• Wine drinks

• Beer drinks

• Nonalcoholic drinks

• Special category drinks'tropical, classics, aperitifs, cordials, hot drinks, and party punches

• Anecdotes and histories of favorite potables

• And more!

If you've ever wondered whether to shake or stir a proper Martini, or what to do with those dusty bottles of flavored liqueurs,The Bartender's Bibleis the only book you need!

A bartender, as a rule, is a person who enjoys the company of others, endeavors to solve problems, listens to the woes of the world, sympathizes with the mistreated, laughs with the comedians, cheers up the down at heart, and generally controls the atmosphere at his or her bar. A bartender is the manager of moods, the master of mixology.

Certain scenarios are played out over and over again in bars everywhere. The questions are basically the same; only the details vary: What's in a true Singapore Sling? How long has the Martini been around? What's the difference between a Fix and a Fizz? A reference book is as necessary to a bartender as ice.

-- from The Bartender's Bible

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From the Publisher

1001 cocktail recipes, listed in alphabetical order by ingredient and indexed by the name of the drink, from the packager and publisher of the phenomenally successful 365 Ways cookbook series (more than 2,000,000 copies sold). --This text refers to the Spiral-bound edition.

About the Author

Gary Regan, bartender extraordinaire, was born over a pub in Lancashire, England. An expert on spirits and cocktails, he has written numerous articles on bar service and liquor. He has also worked as a consultant to restaurants and liquor companies, written about drinks and drinking, and coordinated with his wife Mardee Haidin Regan on a variety of food and beverage-oriented projects.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: HarperTorch (October 1, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0061092207
• ISBN-13: 978-0061092206
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (43 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,618 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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More About the Author

After being raised in British pubs, and being put to work as a bartender by his parents when he was just 14 years old, gaz regan, the bartender formerly known as Gary Regan fled to New York City in 1973.

For over two decades he tended bar at a variety of dives in Manhattan, and in 1990 he started to write about his favorite subjects--drinks and drinking. It wasn't long before he noticed that his work encouraged liquor companies to send him free bottles of booze. He quit the bar business immediately, started to write on a full-time basis, and in 1991 his first book, The Bartender's Bible, was published.

Between 1995 and 1998 gaz, together with Mardee Haidin Regan, co-wrote The Book of Bourbon and Other Fine American Whiskey, The Bourbon Companion, New Classic Cocktails, and The Martini Companion. Since then Mardee wrote The Bartender's Best Friend (2002), and gaz wrote The Joy of Mixology in 2003. His new book, the bartender's GIN compendium, was released in August, 2009.

gaz writes The Cocktailian, a bi-weekly column, for The San Francisco Chronicle. In the past he has written regular columns in The Malt Advocate, Nation's Restaurant News, Cheers Magazine, and The Wine Enthusiast, concentrating on cocktails, bartenders, and the cocktailian craft.

His work is also published in magazines in the U.K., Australia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Switzerland, Russia and Austria. He also conducted Cocktails in the Country, a series of two-day bartender workshops, for seven years, from 2001 until 2007.

gaz and Mardee host www.ardentspirits.com, publish a free e-mail newsletter, Ardent Spirits, and maintain a Worldwide Bartender Database that serves to put spirits companies in touch with their most important ambassadors: The men and women who hold forth from behind slabs of mahogany all over the globe.

gaz lives in a small village in the Hudson Valley, about 50 miles north of the Big Apple.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

38 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Beware of what's popular!, June 16, 2000

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j t beckham (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Bartender's Bible: 1001 Mixed Drinks and Everything You Need to Know to Set Up Your Bar (Mass Market Paperback)

The only thing this bartender's guide has going for it is its hard, oversized cover. Otherwise its only conceivable use is to feed a waning fire. I have been a bartender for over seven years, and I have read a dozen or so reference books. The Bartenders Bible is my least favorite of all. Its organizational system is ponderous and ultimately useless to a bartender in a pinch. It is polluted with obscurely named concoctions that make an experienced bartender wonder if the editors didn't just make them up to fill space. On top of that it is sloppy. If anyone can tell the difference between the "cosmos" pg96 and a daiquiri pg97, be my guest.

I don't know what Mr. Regan was thinking with this book? I have also read his "New Classic Cocktails" and found it to be a much better read. Whatever the cause, beware of this book. Just because it called a "Bible" doesn't mean it's a Good Book.

24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars best bartending guide available, April 5, 2001

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Justus Pendleton (Colorado Springs, CO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Bartender's Bible: 1001 Mixed Drinks and Everything You Need to Know to Set Up Your Bar (Mass Market Paperback)

Pretty much I agree with Brian Tomkiel's review. Complaints about looking things up confuse me, since there is an alphabetical index. There are drinks missing. But every single bartending guide I've looked at is missing one drink or another. In practice, I've never had problems with this book. Besides, most people who are asking for "popular" drinks like the Cosmopolitan and Hurricane know how they're made...it doesn't kill you to ask someone rather than looking in the book.

In the end, sure, maybe it's not perfect for bar use. Then again, I don't see the negative reviews suggesting what IS perfect for professional bar use. For home bar use, however, this book is the best of the many I have and have used.

35 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Drink Index!!!, January 31, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Bartender's Bible: 1001 Mixed Drinks and Everything You Need to Know to Set Up Your Bar (Mass Market Paperback)

I think this book is great! I am very happy I purchased this book, because I found some recipies for some drinks I had long forgotten how to make. I love the index in the back of the book, I can find drinks my major ingredient or by the name of the drink. It's very helpful when I'm tending my home bar during parties. I've also picked up a few new "favorite" drinks by experimenting from this book. Pick up a copy today!