The New Cocktail Hour ─ The Essential Guide to Hand-Crafted Drinks

The explosion of artisan bitters, craft spirits, and resurrected liqueurs ushered in by today’s craft cocktail movement means that home mixology is more exciting than ever.The Modern Cocktailer, a compendium of mixed drinks that have shaped eras, leads readers on a romp through wet bar classics, from pre-prohibition punches to the nouveau nogs that enhance a much-loved cocktail canon.The Modern Cocktailer makes the craft cocktail world accessible, offering essential tips on mixing balanced drinks, stocking a liquor cabinet, preparing your own syrups, shrubs, bitters, and more. There’s even a chapter of no-fail cocktail ratios to help you invent your own drinks.
Authors Andre and Tenaya Darlington’s shared passion for serving well-made drinks stirs together history, new trends, and stylish entertaining techniques for cocktailing at home. Featuring more than 230 cocktail recipes with an emphasis on quality ingredients, tasting notes, food-pairings, and useful sidebars throughout, The Modern Cocktailer is an approachable, must-have guide to making great drinks.

Andre Darlington has been writing about the cocktail revolution from a front-row barstool since it began over a decade ago. His cocktail column appears inIsthmus, Madison, Wisconsin’s alternative weekly. A frequent imbiber across the U.S. and in Europe who cannot resist getting behind the stick, Andre has attended the bartender education program, BarSmarts, and lived to write about it.

Tenaya Darlington is a food writer and educator in Philadelphia. By day, she teaches writing at Saint Joseph’s University; by night she pens the cheese blog Madame Fromage (madamefromageblog.com). Her book,The Di Bruno Bros. House of Cheese (Running Press 2014), may be the first cheese guide to suggest pairing cheese with cocktails. Her writing has also appeared inCooking Light, Edible Philly, Global Traveler, the Philadelphia Inquirer, andCulture magazine.

Andre and Tenaya are co-authors of the health-conscious cocktail blog Sprig+Spirit (sprigandspirit.com).