The Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails (Oxford Companions)

Bought as a present for my daughter in law who loves it!

Well it’s a big book set out like a dictionary or encyclopaedia. It’s very different to your everyday cocktail book and to be honest, in my opinion, it isn’t for the casual drinker. It’s for those who want to know about things. It’s comprehensive but funnily enough the first thing I looked for wasn’t there. I’d just bought a bottle of Advocaat (Warninks) as it’s the time of year it suddenly appears in Supermarkets… .Perhaps it will get into the next edition.

This is an absolutely brilliant book for anybody in the drinks trade or simply wants to find some up to date and trustworthy information, history and stories related to drinks.

Very detailed encyclopedia style tome on spirits and cocktails. Great reference work

The content is good and others have written about it but i have to remove two stars for the following misleading features on this store page. 1. It says the book has 960 pages. It doesn't. It has, counting even the couple of blank pages at the end: 838+26 Roman numerals at the start+16 unnumbered glossy photo pages =880. That's 80 pages short of what it claims. 2. If you look at the pictures here, the side on view showing the pages, the book looks a lot thinner than it does in real life and the pages look whiter in their picture than they do in real life. I think the book pictured here uses higher different paper. The book I'm holding here has that kind of semi rough paper that is quite thick and absorbent and the pages go wavy if your house has humidity. I have enclosed a zoomed in photo of the paper.