The Complete Bartender [Mass Market Paperback]

Robyn M. Feller (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1995

With easy-to-follow recipes, step-by-step instructions, and tips on serving.

* Exciting new drinks
* Frozen blender drinks
* Beer and wine
* Punch
* Low-calorie drinks
* After-dinner drinks
* Nonalcoholic drinks * Hot drinks * Aperitifs * Holiday and seasonal drinks
* And more

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About the Author

Robyn M. Feller is the author of a number of nonfiction books. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 560 pages
• Publisher: Berkley (1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0425126870
• ISBN-13: 978-0425126875
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.2 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #880,818 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #43 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Cooking, Food & Wine > Drinks & Beverages > Bartending
  • #58 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Cooking, Food & Wine > Drinks & Beverages > Spirits

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42 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good place to start for a new or training batender., August 12, 1998

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This review is from: The Complete Bartender (Mass Market Paperback)

I hire and train bartenders for two resteraunts and a night club. This is the only book I currenlty allow my bartenders to use behind our bars. The glossary and ingredient index are very helpful. This book has helped greatly in getting some consistency back among my bartenders. I have run across only a couple of problems with it. The binding. If this book had been spiral bound it would be much easier to actually use while working. Because it is in a paperback format it is more of a reference than a tool. The life expectency of any paperback behind a busy bar is about one week. Glossy or laminated pages would extend it's life. I'm sure that cost is a factor with both of these problems, but any working bartender would gladly spend a few more dollars and consider it an investment.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best resources for making mixed drinks!, April 16, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: The Complete Bartender (Mass Market Paperback)

This book is a must have! The entire book is layed out perfectly! The recipies are very easy to read and they're well layed out. They're alphabatized as well as the index and the glossary. The table of contents breaks the book down into catagories from stocking your bar, party drinks, to nonalcoholic drinks. Beginning with a list of mixers, 'Odds and Ends', measurements in ounces, standard bar measurments, and garnishes. Included is a section on 'Bartender's Secrets' that gives tips and tricks the professionals use to make drinks such as choosing glassware and how to open a bottle of wine.

One very important point discussed is the importance of being responsible while drinking and also on being a responsible bartender. Included is a body weight chart giving the ratio of weight to the number of drinks a person consumes and how long it takes the body to matabolize it.

One of my favorite parts is the index because it makes the art of bartending professionally or unprofessionally much simpler taking a lot of the guess work out. If you don't know what to make with that bottle of flavored liqueur or you want to use some wine just go to the index and it will give you a list of drinks that can be made using whatever kind of alcohol you have. For anyone watching their calorie intake the book also includes an Index of Low-calorie Drinks.

I agree that this book would greatly be improved if it were spiral bound and was somehow protected so it would avoid liquid damage. I wonder....since it's so thick, making it a bit bigger, allowing more space for text and minimizing the amount of space the recipies take up on each page, in turn minimizing the depth, would make it easier to spiralbound it. Other than that this is an outstanding resource guide!

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best book (I've seen) for behind the bar, July 24, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Complete Bartender (Mass Market Paperback)

Working in the tourist area of San Francisco, we get drink requests from people who are visting from all parts of the world. This was the only book we used out of four, and now that a parting bartender has made a momento of this one we either already know the drink or can't find it. It may be a bit light in other areas, (I never checked) but if you need a 'drink dictionary' behind the bar, get this one. Then give your boss the receipt and tell him to cough it up.