num_pages: 412
description: It's a system a tool kit a recipe book. Beginning with one irresistible ideaa complete home bar of just 12 key bottleshere's how to make more than 200 classic and unique mixed drinks including sours slings toddies and highballs plus the perfect Martini the perfect Manhattan and the perfect Mint Julep. It's a surprising guidetequila didn't make the cut and neither did bourbon but genever did. And it's a literate guidedescribing with great liveliness everything from the importance of vermouth and bitters (the salt and pepper of mixology) to the story of a punch bowl so big it was stirred by a boy in a rowboat.
language: English
title: The 12 Bottle Bar: Make Hundreds of Cocktails with Just Twelve Bottles
publisher: Workman Publishing Company