A collection of more than 80 wonderfully creative, fresh, and delicious cocktails that only require a bottle of your favorite spirit, plus fresh ingredients you can easily find at the market. In The One-Bottle Cocktail, Maggie Hoffman brings fancy drinking to the masses by making cocktails approachable enough for those with a tiny home bar.
A collection of more than 80 wonderfully creative, fresh, and delicious cocktails that only require a bottle of your favorite spirit, plus fresh ingredients you can easily find at the market.
In The One-Bottle Cocktail, Maggie Hoffman brings fancy drinking to the masses by making cocktails approachable enough for those with a tiny home bar. Conversational and authoritative, this book puts simple, delicious, and inventive drinks into your hands wherever you are, with ingredients you can easily source and no more than one spirit. Organized by spirit–vodka, gin, agave spirits, rum, brandy, and whiskey–each chapter offers fresh, eye-opening cocktails like the Garden Gnome (vodka, green tomato, basil, and lime), Night of the Hunter (gin, figs, thyme, and grapefruit soda), and the Bluest Chai (rye whiskey, chai tea, and balsamic vinegar). These recipes won’t break the bank, won’t require an emergency run to the liquor store, and (best of all!) will delight cocktail lovers of all stripes.
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Finally – a cocktail book that lets people with regular pantries make awesome drinks! I’ll admit that I have a bookshelf full of cookbooks and a decent section committed to alcoholic creations… The problem is that while I can easily use 90%+ of the recipes in the cookbooks, I’ve almost never found more than 1 or 2 cocktail recipes per book that I can make without a pilgrimage to the fancy hipster liquor store. That’s why I can honestly say, THANK ALL THAT IS HOLY for this book. With a single bottle of booze and a few items from you pantry or the grocery store (where you’re…
Liked it so much that I bought copies for friends, too! I’ve been slowly making my way through The One-Bottle Cocktail since it came out in March. The reason I love this book is that it taught me a new way of looking at them: Focus on the non-alcoholic ingredients primarily for the flavor (fresh juices, spices, herbs, fruit, and teas) instead of liquors. Iâve learned a ton from this book about which flavors work together, how certain flavors interact with certain liquors, and how much the flavor of certain herbs and fruits can vary from plant to…
Beautiful, approachable cocktails that won’t clutter your bar with weird bottles I don’t make a ton of cocktails at home. I have a few that I rotate through (Manhattan, Negroni, Division Bell), but that’s about it. The main reason is that keeping a bar stocked with all the vermouths, tinctures, and liqueurs necessary to make a much wider array of drinks is unrealistic–my collection of spirits takes up enough space as it is.This book opens up a whole world of new flavors for me to experience–it takes the half-drunk bottles of spirits I already keep around and…