Death & Co: Modern Classic Cocktails, with More Than 500 Recipes

I've been using this book for years now, and have made many of the drinks within and visited the bar in person since my purchase. It's a fantastic resource, containing recipes for hundreds of delicious cocktails. Lots of good theory to be read if you go beyond the recipes as well, detailing how the bartenders at Death & Co go about creating new drinks and flavours that they have found go together well.It's been an invaluable resource since I purchased it, and helped me expand my home bar from the dregs of my university days to a collection that allows me to make a good number of the drinks recipes contained within the book. Many of the recipes can be made with some core purchases, with very few recipes calling for the sort of ingredient that will sit in the back of your cabinet unused for years.Whether you're new to mixing drinks, or you've got several years experience behind you, you can't go wrong with this book.

The Death & Co. book is a fantastic read for bartenders at an intermediate level.The book itself contains a history of the bar, as well as guides on creating the perfect atmosphere, customer service advice and of course cocktail recipes.Some of the classics have multiple recipes to appeal to the wide range of tastes customers have, and explain how to identify which recipe to use in which situation. There is also a selection of flavour pairing wheels and a vast guide on bar techniques. I particularly enjoyed the guide on how to stir multiple drinks using just one hand.The pictures in the book are beautiful, as well as the cover of the book being so gorgeous that it looks incredible facing forward on my bookshelf. I hope to one day visit the bar.

This book is different from the rest. It actually assumes you don't know anything and explains everything to you from the begging, finally a cocktail book that doesn't assume you are a seasoned bartender.The book is made very well, the illustrations and pictures are beautiful, and I 100% recommend the book.And having over 500 recipes is also really useful.

Since buying this book I have expanded my already sizable bar by more than 2/5ths it's size. I now have a shelf devoted entirely to vermouths and amaros. I'm not trying to brag, I'm trying to say that this book inspires you to try all the fussy ingredients in their intricate incarnations because the results and the fun are hard to contend with. As a former bartender, I confess that much of the nomenclature, techniques, and potions were unknown to me. It was nice to uncover so much to learn and fetishize in the world of mixology. The book's language and detailed explanations make it accessible for the novice but their attention to the minutiae and the abstract keep it fascinating even for the more well-worn barkeep. Can't recommend it enough.

This book is superbly put together. The detail, typesetting, illustrations and photography are all top class. But it is the content I find most valuable.Comprehensive, expert, pragmatic, honest, fun, funny and passionate are words I would use to describe this book. I'm looking forward to exploring the recipes and techniques and applying what I've learned to the drinks I already make.

Bought as a gift and didn’t disappoint. An interesting read with a good selection of photographs and recipes. Perfect!

Great price but arrived damaged.Wont bother returning though.

amazing book, beautifully put together and very informative.For people who like to look further than just simple cocktail recipes, this gives theory and technique too.