Shrubs: An Old-Fashioned Drink for Modern Times (Second Edition): Sweet and Savory Cocktails and Sophisticated Sodas by Michael Dietsch

  • Benjamin Franklin's shrub (page 79)

    from Shrubs: An Old-Fashioned Drink for Modern Times (Second Edition): Sweet and Savory Cocktails and Sophisticated Sodas Shrubs by Michael Dietsch

    • Categories: Cocktails / drinks (with alcohol); American
    • Ingredients: oranges; dark rum; turbinado sugar
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  • Cherry-mint shrub

    • Dannausc on May 23, 2020

      Really, really good!

  • Lemon-lime shrub

    • JELogan on May 27, 2025

      Substituted white wine vinegar for champagne vinegar. Would be curious to try this with white sugar as the turbinado gave it a faintly caramelized flavor. Not unpleasant but not a very strong lemon/lime taste.

  • Pear-ginger shrub

    • Dannausc on May 31, 2020

      Pretty decent

  • Celery shrub

    • JELogan on August 01, 2022

      This is a great, quick-to-make shrub. No need to wait a couple of days for maceration. Gorgeous flavor, really clean and refreshing with sparkling water. I might try it again with half the sugar, as I'd like the vinegar to shine through a bit more.

  • Fresh ginger shrub

    • JELogan on May 27, 2025

      While a juicer would be helpful for many of these recipes, perhaps none moreso than the ginger. Use a juicer and save your hands all the rasping on the grater, just be sure to manually squeeze out any excess juice from the waste receptacle on your juicer. Lots in there! This is an excellent shrub with sparkling water or as a base for a dark and stormy.

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  • ISBN 10 158157388X
  • ISBN 13 9781581573886
  • Published Sep 27 2016
  • Format Hardcover
  • Page Count 256
  • Language English
  • Edition 2
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher Countryman Press

Publishers Text

A beautiful revised edition, with foreword by Paul Clarke, and 10 new recipes.

"A shrub is exactly what the people who invented the phrase 'slake your thirst' had in mind.  A shrub is full of character and variety. The ingredients - fruit, sugar, and vinegar - are as simple as can be. But the variations are seemingly unlimited. It has another superpower: A strong shrub game can help you make the most of bruised or aging summer fruit."

–The New York Times, in an article featuring Shrubs

 

Michael Dietsch took the mixology community by storm when he brought back a popular drink from colonial times, the shrub. Not the green, leafy kind that grow in the ground, but a vintage drink mixer that can be spiked with alcohol or prepared as a soda. Drinkers, bartenders, and the media embraced the book. This new edition features a foreword by Paul Clarke, the Executive Editor of Imbibe magazine and author of The Cocktail Chronicles. Here is the definitive guide to making and using shrubs. 

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