Finding a Bible
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Finding a Bible
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Re: Finding a Bible
What a tremendous idea!brandonman wrote: ↑Tue May 08, 2018 7:26 pmI finally realized the MDM series was posted on the youtube, months ago. I just now saw it last night. I'd forgotten about the site for a hot minute (No, I didn't drop the good fight!). The one episode got me thinking - I need a cocktail bible to attack. I looked for the one mentioned in the episode, and couldn't find it - I think it was fake. Myself and my best friend from birth, and fellow crewman of the life vessel known as Alcohol, got drinks and food tonight. I brought up that we need to find a massive world cocktail manual, and attack every drink known to man in said book, and go through it with a reasonable (by our standards, not your average layman's standards) timetable. He was in, with gusto.
That all said, what is THE go-to cocktail manual? I don't want some hipster yuppie mixologist fucking chemistry book. I want something unpretentious, yet comprehensive. Something masculine, but not in the lumbersexual lame hipster way. Something 1800s and early 1900s level classic, while being modern. Something that isn't just a strict recipe book without stories, without being obnoxious. Something up the MDM alley, basically. Is there some lost Generation comprehensive drink manual? Some no-frills manual with origin stories? Some gonzo-recounting of a booze-hound's life-long travels to every corner tavern on earth? We want something physical, where we can tick off, drink by drink, until we have plowed through them all. I was thinking on the order of a 1,000 cocktails, but that may be a little ambitious.
I worked as a bartender for years and every bar worshiped Mr Boston's Bartenders Guide. Every single bar had a copy sitting behind the bar.
https://www.amazon.com/Mr-Boston-Offici ... 0470390654
Although it isn't a recipe book, one of my favorite cocktail books is called "Straight Up or On the Rocks". It's a quick read and really describes the history of western drink culture, how prohibition helped shape how we drink today, and the overall importance of booze.
https://www.amazon.com/Straight-Up-Rock ... 086547656X
Somehow, I always found this to be a companion book to any recipe book because it seems to place drinks in prospective and context with trending tastes thoughout the last century.
These are my opinions, but I highly recommend both. And then, I hope to see your 1000 posts as you make your way though your liquid journey. This will be fun!
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Re: Finding a Bible
"Drink: A Social History of America" by Andrew Barr is probably one of my favorite reads on western alcohol history. The research and references are painstaking. No cocktail recipes though.
"And a Bottle of Rum: History of the New World in Ten Cocktails" by Wayne Curtis is another good read. Stories and cocktail recipes in one book!
Jerry Thomas is considered the father of American bartending by many and wrote a number of cocktail manuals dating from the mid nineteenth century.
Also, "The Necronomicon" by the Mad Arab Abdul Alhazrad contains a number of invokation rites for making a really nice, dry martini. Should be available in paperback by now.
Might have to write your own bible.
"And a Bottle of Rum: History of the New World in Ten Cocktails" by Wayne Curtis is another good read. Stories and cocktail recipes in one book!
Jerry Thomas is considered the father of American bartending by many and wrote a number of cocktail manuals dating from the mid nineteenth century.
Also, "The Necronomicon" by the Mad Arab Abdul Alhazrad contains a number of invokation rites for making a really nice, dry martini. Should be available in paperback by now.
Might have to write your own bible.
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Re: Finding a Bible
Paperback beats having to recovber the original. Takes more than a few dead hookers for that
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Re: Finding a Bible
Speaking of finding a bible... there was once a bible in the bedstand drawer of my room at the Motel 6. I used some of the less necessary pages to roll a doobie. How do think that would go over in a confessional booth?
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Re: Finding a Bible
You should read the magazine more often: I Drink the World: The Charles H. Baker Jr. Story
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Re: Finding a Bible
"Everyday Drinking" by Kingsley Amis is a great read, if perhaps a little dated. I think Bur still has my copy.
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Re: Finding a Bible
Jerry Thomas, the inventor of the Tom Collins known as the father of American mixology, finished Bar-Tender's Guide (alternately titled How to Mix Drinks or The Bon-Vivant's Companion), the first drink book ever published in the United States in 1862.
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Re: Finding a Bible
I own this and it is an incredible read. I hope my drinking life is as half as interesting as Mr baker Jr.oettinger wrote: ↑Fri May 11, 2018 11:19 amYou should read the magazine more often: I Drink the World: The Charles H. Baker Jr. Story
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Re: Finding a Bible
A bible ain't shit if the hubris of the acolyte don't listen to the grumpy, old wisdom and treatment of those who came before you.
What is an isle to you?
What really matters?
Ask these questions first before invoking the wrath of the elders, or let one's words tumble in the wash unto tiny grains of sand.
What is an isle to you?
What really matters?
Ask these questions first before invoking the wrath of the elders, or let one's words tumble in the wash unto tiny grains of sand.
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Re: Finding a Bible
I'm still wondering if God wears a hat.
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