Amy Stewart's The Drunken Botanist: Exploring Plants Through Cocktails and Cuisine

Dr. PJ: This book is very cool, educational, and just fun! It was in great condition and delivered quickly.

United States on Oct 04, 2023

Vlad: Great book!

United States on Sep 27, 2023

Richard Mikels: Beautiful book. Great for someone who is into mixology. The layout of each section is spectacular. I misunderstood what the book was about, as I was looking for a book to make beverages from scratch, i.e. brewing, fermentation and distillation. It's a very informative book with useful knowledge. It will be very useful for homebrewing. Excellent book to have for Homebrewers and Mixologist alike.

United States on Sep 11, 2023

Rizwan Khan: excellent work

India on Sep 07, 2023

Cassie: Amazing book with so much fun information packed into it! I don't drink but it was still quite neat to learn about it all!

Canada on Aug 20, 2023

TristinvissersTristinvissers: This book is for a cocktail enthusiast who is interested in elevating their repertoire of knowledge! It’s dense and populated with all sorts of details and hidden gems when it comes to what makes the craft an art of discovery and preservation! If this isn’t on your shelf, you are simply are missing out.

Canada on Apr 05, 2023

isabella: Comprato da Amazon warehouse ed è evidente che sia una ex copia di una biblioteca, con tanto di etichetta identificativa del catalogo bibliotecario
Diciamo che mi aspettavo un libro meno usato visto che veniva identificato come in "ottime condizioni"

Italy on Dec 29, 2022

Judy Hache: Interesting read.

Canada on Dec 25, 2022

Bernie Gourley: This book is about how plants are used in the making of alcoholic beverages from vegetative matter that serves as the primary ingredient in fermentation to obscure herbs and berries used to lend subtle flavoring. The book covers a lot of ground, being at once a guide to the chemistry of fermentation and distillation, a mixologist’s recipe book, and a guide to growing the plants used to make booze.

I will admit, if I weren’t such a neophyte to both subjects at hand – botany and alcoholic beverages – I probably wouldn’t have rated this book so highly. For me, almost every page offered new fun facts about alcoholic beverages, some of which I’ve consumed and many of which I never have. So if you have a high degree of understanding about one or both of these subjects, you may not find the book as intensely satisfying. Also, at times the book comes off a bit pretentiously – hardcore drunks probably don’t want to be shackled with so many rules for optimal alcoholic consumption (e.g. what type of glass they should drink a given drink from, etc.), but hardcore drunks are probably not a huge readership demographic. (It should also be noted that the reader gets some...

United States on May 29, 2018

D_shrink: This book turned out to be an excellent reference on plants and their many uses by humans. The author discussed many plant uses beside fermenting plant starches into sugars by the addition of yeasts. One could tell the author loved discussing plants with the occasional witty remark and her extensive knowledge of each of the various species. If one could find a fault with the book, it might be the inclusion of many species of which all but those engaged in botanical research would be familiar. But that aside the book was a fun and informative read. The author chose to list all the various plants by their common names rather than list them by their Latin nomenclature, as is more typical in many botanical references, and this point was greatly appreciated.

Although there were hundreds of interesting facts regarding the various plant species, I would like to list just a few to give the readers an idea that the book was interesting and did not just discuss making booze.

1. We learn the Barley is the most prolific grain at converting its starches into sugar to make alcohol because it has a high level of enzymes and that it is an easy plant to grow not being much affected...

United States on Mar 22, 2013