The Ultimate A-to-Z Bar Guide

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.