In the cocktail movement, most cocktail books have ignored the whiskey drinkers palate, making us flip through pages of vodka, gin, and rum recipes before getting to a good whiskey recipe. This is simply the best book ever written on whisky. It is to whiskey what the martini is to gin and the base for countless cocktails. Relating the story of whisky and the differences between the main varieties, such as scotch, bourbon and tennessee whiskey, this book gives you the knowhow. Slaughter offers riffs on classic cocktails as well as a host of original creations, including several featuring whisky, such as the juice box iced tea an adult version of ssips lemon iced tea, made with bourbon, the nothing compares 2 d.
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