Trader Vic's Bartender's Guide [Hardcover]

Victor Jules Bergeron (Author), Shirley Sarvis (Editor), Helen Ann deWerd (Illustrator)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 434 pages
• Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.; Revised edition (August 8, 1972)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0385068050
• ISBN-13: 978-0385068055
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 5.8 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #899,184 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Trader Vic's has got that mondo-lounge feel, May 6, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Trader Vic's Bartender's Guide (Hardcover)

While not containing the hippest, up-to-the-moment drinks, this book is a compendium of a lot of the more traditional tropical drinks such as the zombie, the fogcutter, and the scorpion. Trader Vic himself often has a few words about the drinks, and a good section on his bartending philosophy. Well worth going through the trouble of trying to find.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Trader Vic's Da'Man!, January 4, 2002

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A. Dudinsky (Windsor, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Trader Vic's Bartender's Guide (Hardcover)

Fantastic bar guide, covering all standard, and tropical drinks. Learn how to make drinks that taste great, and work great! One note, various editions exit, older ones do not containt the recipe for the famous Mai Tai, newer ones do not give the TRUE recipe, but rather say "use Trader Vic's Mai Tai Mix" (similar for other drinks). TO get all recipes, with BASIC ingred. I suggest buying multiple editions of this text. Learn how to make Hot Buttered Rum Batter, Mai Tai's, Navy Grog, the REAL way!

Great Reading, Great experimenting, Great drinks....

A Must for the hobby bar tender!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A must for any mixologist, March 30, 2002

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Kristoffer Ericsson - See all my reviews

This review is from: Trader Vic's Bartender's Guide (Hardcover)

Trader Vics cocktail book is a important collection for any serious bartender, its an era, a school of thought that must be remebered and no one tells it better that Vic himself. The book contains humourous stories and tips. The downside to it is that none of the ingredients are official, but understanably were aware that no one tells their secrets. very well written, and surely a book that you can compare to and rreview several times over. A must.....