Drinking Distilled ― A User's Manual

An opinionated, illustrated guide for cocktail beginners, covering the basics of spirits plus making and drinking cocktails, written by celebrated craft cocktail bartender Jeffrey Morgenthaler.

This easy-reading, colorful introduction for cocktail beginners, with approximately 100 succinct lessons on drinking culture, spirits, and cocktail making, is delivered in the pithy, wry style Morgenthaler is known for in his instructional videos and writing for beverage publications. Novices will learn how to order a drink, how to drink with the boss, how to drink at the airport, and more. Twelve perfect starter recipes--ranging from a Dry Gin Martini to a Batched Old-Fashioned (perfect for the flask)--plus thirty original illustrations round out this distillation for new enthusiasts.

JEFFREY MORGENTHALER is the award-winning bar director of Clyde Common and Pépé le Moko, the author of The Bar Book, and a cocktail editor and columnist for Food Republic. Morgenthaler has been featured in Saveur, the Wall Street Journal, Food & Wine, the New York Times, Bon Appetit, Esquire, Imbibe, and more.

SAMI GASTON is a bartender-turned-illustrator.