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Product Description
What's a Dirty Martini? How do you pronounce Cuarenta Y Tres? Which glass do you use for a Stinger? How did the Margarita get its name?

Answers to these questions and thousands more can be found in The Ultimate A-to-Z Bar Guide, a one-stop, user-friendly cocktail guide featuring more than 1,000 drink recipes and 600 definitions for cocktail-related terms.

The Ultimate A-to-Z Bar Guide offers a unique blend of features, including:

Definitions of over 600 cocktail- and drink-related terms, including liqueurs, types of drinks, cocktail jargon, and the etymology of drinks like the Martini and the Fuzzy Navel, all organized in an easy-to-use A-to-Z format with sound-out phonetics.
Drink recipes for more than 1,000 cocktails for every season and occasion.Each recipe is complete with a graphic showing the appropriate glass to use.
Ideas on how to make sure guests have a great time while encouraging responsible drinking.
Tips on everything from stocking a home bar to choosing the right glassware, plus loads of professional bartending tricks and shortcuts for creating the perfect cocktail.
Humor through anecdotes, toasts, and quotes from the famous and infamous.
Four indexes that make finding the listing you want a snap!

Accessible, fun, hip, and written in the Herbsts' inimitable style, The Ultimate A-to-Z Bar Guide deserves a place at every home and professional bar.

Customer Reviews: Read 10 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars

LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS November 26, 2008
Absolutely LOVE this book. Not only does it have basics that anyone can learn even at home but also a trained bartender can pick up. So many different recipes for new drinks, not just your basic every day drinks. Great to find something new to try.

5 out of 5 stars

excellent bar guide December 31, 2007
After searching for a bar guide, I decided to get The Ultimate A-To-Z Bar Guide because it was fun and interesting to read. Its content is comprehensive--everything you could ever want to make is in this book. The format is simple, look up drinks based on ingredients, alphabetically, or even by type. And itis entertaining as well. The introduction supplies a lot of useful information for the beginner, like what glasses to use and basic liquor knowledge.

5 out of 5 stars

Outstanding resource for amateurs and pros alike July 23, 2005
6 out of 6 found this review helpful

This is far and away the best all-around bartending guide I've seen. The authors go way beyond drink recipies and discuss history, glassware, bar equipment, and drink making technique. It's easy to read and understand. Highly recommended.

5 out of 5 stars

Take It From A Pro July 21, 2005
17 out of 17 found this review helpful

Well, I'm a professional bartender and was getting ready to order some more of "Ultimate A-to-Z Bar Guides" for some of my bartender friends when I noticed the "pulpfoto" review and just felt I had to respond. I disagree with everything he said, and wonder if we have different books!

First of all, I haven't looked for a classic recipe I couldn't find in this book. And what's with the "Caesar" cocktail reference? First of all, Seagrams Bartending Guide doesn't even have a Caesar cocktail in it (and, by the way, no one's ever ordered a Caesar in this bar, and I've been here for 10 years). And the Seagrams book is no where near as user-friendly as this book because it lists the drinks by liquor-the "Ultimate A-to-Z Bar Guide" lists them alphabetically, which means when a customer asks for a drink I'm not familiar with, I can flip it open and have the recipe at my fingertips in an instant. And, though I don't use it anymore, the Seagrams book doesn't sit on the bar at any better than this book. (I'm wondering if the "pulpfoto" guy wrote the Seagrams book and was trying to knock the ratings on this book down).

Bottom line: the "Ultimate A-to-Z Bar Guide" delivers in a major way . . . from the classics to the newer cocktails. Plus lots of information on everything from ice to garnishes. It has everything you'll ever need to know on cocktails, whether you are a home bartender, or a beginning bartender, or one who's been in the biz for a decade, like me. In short, this book's a winner!

5 out of 5 stars

This is a great book July 15, 2005
7 out of 7 found this review helpful

I can't stand it. The Ultimate A-to-Z Bar guide is a great book and I'm confused by the "pulpfoto" review below-I think it is misleading. I've looked through the Seagram's Bartending Guide including the index for the last 15 minutes and I cannot find "Caesar." So if the review is based on this, then where is it? My version of the Seagram's book is 1995 (which seems old but it's the one where pupfoto's full review of the guide is listed. Also see the review of the Seagram's Guide where pulpfoto says "The Ultimate A-Z Bar Guide has a weird index where you need to know the main liquor involved before you can look up the drink!! What if you dont know?" Well, duh! As the name, the Ultimate A-to-Z Bar Guide, says it's A to Z so you look in the main body of the book. If you're looking for "Bushwhacker" look under the Bs, if you're looking for a "Knickerbocker Cocktail" look under the Ks. I think the four indexes are terrific and I have not seen another book like this where you can look up by 1-drinks by alcohol type, 2- drinks by primary non-alcoholic ingredient, 3-drinks by classic categories or 4-drinks by special category. The other reviewers have got it right.