Cocktail Resources

Where it all (this website) started. This book was the inspiration for Cocktail Love, and continues to be our favorite book to flip through. It's a modern classic in and of itself.

The follow-up to Death & Co's first book, and in some ways, even better. Through six base drinks, it explains the fundamentals of cocktail building and creation. If you want to start creating your own specs, this book is for you. It does have some overlap with the first book recipe-wise, but definitely different enough altogether to get both for your shelves.

The cocktail book for tinkerers and experimenters. This book is unique out of the bunch and focuses on the science behind the cocktail, experimentation, and fun techniques to take your drinks to the next level.

Tiki! Smuggler's Cove is a classic Tiki bar in San Francisco, and their book is just as much a classic. It's filled with recipes but filled just as much with Tiki history and personal anecdotes that give the book a lot of character.

Another book unlike any other, inspired the award-winning cocktail bar The Aviary, in Chicago. A fair warning that most of the recipes will be...challenging (to say the least)...for the home cocktail enthusiast, but the book does look fantastic on a coffee table, and is inspirational in its creativity.

A classic that predates most of the other books on this list, brimming with recipes cover to cover.

Yet another book coming from an iconic NYC establishment; The Dead Rabbit won North America's best bar four years straight from 2013-2016, and was awarded the World's Best Bar in 2016. Filled with anecdotes of how The Dead Rabbit came to be, but also with unique and tasty cocktail specs that you probably haven't seen before, this is a nice addition to the library.

The third installment from the Death & Co crew, this is another beautiful and useful book, although probably a 'nice to have' if you already have the first two. Many new recipes in it, but with new ingredients so it might frustrate those that expect to be able to make them with ingredients available in the home bar ( although that's true for a few of these).