Cocktail Codex: Origins, Fundamentals, Formulas by Alex Day and David Kaplan and Nick Fauchald

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    • Categories: Cocktails / drinks (with alcohol)
    • Ingredients: sugar cubes; Angostura bitters; bourbon; lemons; oranges
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  • Southside

    • Jane on March 25, 2019

      I should have double strained this as the flecks of mint were not attractive. A refreshing drink with mint and lime.

  • Pegu Club cocktail

    • Jane on March 25, 2019

      This was a well balanced cocktail with sourness of lime, fruity sweetness of Cointreau and two types of bitters. One I will repeat.

    • et12 on April 02, 2023

      I thought this was ok but could have used some added sweetness

  • Last word

    • peaceoutdesign on August 30, 2024

      A favorite. Substitute Mezcal for the gin and have an Ultima Palabra

    • Baxter850 on August 09, 2020

      Classic equal portion specs. Same as D&C except no gin specified. Prefer to up the gin to 1 oz and prefer Tanqueray over Beefeater.

  • Crop top

  • Corpse reviver #2

  • Chatham cocktail

    • peaceoutdesign on October 19, 2024

      Interesting use of champagne, the combination tasted a bit exotic.

  • High five

  • Blended strawberry syrup

    • peaceoutdesign on August 13, 2023

      I followed the process but added 5 dashes of Peychauds and 3 dashes of Angostura, adding depth. (the recipe ended up being a blend with Bartender's Manifesto's version)

  • Strawberry Negroni

    • peaceoutdesign on August 29, 2023

      I used the blended syrup from Codex on pg 47 and doubled it to 1/2 oz. It was murky but delicious.

  • Grasshopper

    • Baxter850 on May 15, 2020

      Too sweet for me, although I subbed Brizard creme de cacao. Add 1/2 oz heavy cream (and maybe 1/4 tsp Fernet with a pinch of salt).

  • French 75

    • Baxter850 on July 24, 2020

      Good specs; champagne heavy (prefer gin forward).

  • Hemingway daiquiri

    • Baxter850 on April 11, 2020

      Great specs. A mashup of this and the Nomad specs are my go to Hemingway Daq specs.

  • Fresh gimlet

    • et12 on April 01, 2023

      I preferred this one to the daiquiri as I found the bitterness of the gin, combined with the acidity of the lime and the sweetness of the sugar syrup created a more balanced drink.

  • Blood and sand

    • et12 on March 11, 2023

      Had the ingredients and thought I would give it a try. Not bad. A slight bitterness and not too sweet. Good use of soft citric acid via the orange juice.

  • Americano

    • jenburkholder on July 09, 2021

      Delicious - light, refreshing, not too alcoholic (but not too mild, either!)

  • Grapefruit Collins

    • jenburkholder on July 08, 2021

      Very nice; refreshing. The bitters bring a lot to the drink.

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  • Eat Your Books

    Let's drink to Death & Company's Cocktail Codex, a revolutionary cocktail guide that sets itself apart from every cocktail book out there.

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  • ISBN 10 160774970X
  • ISBN 13 9781607749707
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  • Published Oct 30 2018
  • Format Hardcover
  • Page Count 320
  • Language English
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher Ten Speed Press

Publishers Text

James Beard Award Winner - Cookbook of the Year 2019

From the authors of the best-selling and genre-defining cocktail book Death & Co, Cocktail Codex is a comprehensive primer on the craft of mixing drinks that employs the authors' unique "cocktail families" approach to give drink-makers of every level the tools to understand, execute, and improvise both classic and original cocktails.

"There are only six cocktails." So says David Kaplan, Nick Fauchald, and Alex Day, the visionaries behind the seminal craft cocktail bar Death & Co. In Cocktail Codex, these experts reveal for the first time their surprisingly simple approach to mastering cocktails: the "cocktail families," six easily identifiable (and memorizable!) templates that encompass all cocktails. Once you understand the hows and whys of each "family," you'll understand why some cocktails work and others don't, when to shake and when to stir, what you can omit and what you can substitute when you're missing ingredients, why you like the drinks you do, and what sorts of drinks you should turn to--or invent--if you want to try something new.

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