Imbibe! The Updated and Revised Edition: Enjoy the Best Cocktails and Mixed Drinks with this Classic Guide

Andrea F: The writing looks good, according to the gift recipient. The drawings are neat and the actual content appears helpful and well done. Would definitely buy again!

United States on Dec 27, 2023

Peter A. Haan: Very fun book, very well-made and informative

United States on Nov 15, 2023

LCW: It's a good read.

United States on Sep 09, 2023

Daxx: Es un libro recomendable para cualquier persona que aspire a ser bartender o mixólogo. La colección de recetas es muy interesante al igual que la historia.

Mexico on Sep 24, 2021

Tomi'sAmazon: Amazing book for anyone wanting to know a bit of history surrounding the bar industry

United Kingdom on Feb 12, 2020

Tristan A. Jayol: A treasure trove of bartenders' trivial for the era before the civil war through to prohibition.

Warning: this book is very long and the author uses very obscure vocabulary words to make minor points. This book is heavy on both bombast and substance.

4 stars (instead of 5) for the bombastic word choice and the fact that it is 200 pages longer than it needs to be. The same information could be conveyed using 200 pages less. The weird, hyper-literate vocabulary slows down the reading significantly.

This book is heavy on pomp and fluff. On the other hand, it represents some of the best scholarship on the topic of American Mixology between 1801 and prohibition.

Worth reading, but a hell of a slow read.

United States on Mar 12, 2019

natalie: Really happy about delivery! On time and great reading!

Canada on Feb 03, 2018

Cliente Amazon: Libro must del genere. Ben suddiviso tra ricette e storia del settore. Con alcuni tecnicismi in inglese non sempre facili da comprendere ma ne vale la pena.

Italy on Jan 16, 2018

Megan Campbell: Wow.  Just, wow...  what a book.  Imbibe! by David Wondrich is the winner of the James Beard Award and generally considered one of the most in depth cocktail books available and for very good reason.  The amount of research, work, and passion that went into this project is evident in every single page and it makes me excited to read Mr.Wondrich's other book, Punch.  That said, I'm not sure I can fully recommend this to the at-home or beginner bartender.  It took me several weeks to make it fully through this book, partially because I have a poor attention span, but also because the sheer amount of information is overwhelming.  I am currently in the process of re-reading Imbibe and taking notes as I go to ensure that I fully understood and remember the material... I'm on page 3 of notes and I'm not even halfway through.  The only other book I've done that with (so far) is Proof: The Science of Booze.  That said, lets get down to it!

I purchased the hard cover copy of Imbibe as I do with all my 'work' books, since they are intended as reference material and that translates poorly to Kindle.  Also they will most likely be...

United States on Oct 03, 2017

Stefan: tolle geschichten und viel wissenswertes, recht lustig mit gutem witz
da macht trinken spass, so wie es sein soll. punkt.

Germany on Apr 01, 2017