The Mini Bar 100 Essential Cocktail Recipes 8 Notebook Set [Novelty book]

An eye-catching collection of 100 recipes for cocktail enthusiasts

From the editors of PUNCH, these eight small notebooks, organized by base ingredient, feature classic and modern drink recipes for essential spirits, liqueurs, and wines: whisky, rum, gin, vodka, tequila, champagne, sherry, and amaro. Each notebook also includes space in the back for jotting down that new cocktail creation. Nested in a sturdy slipcase, this colorful compilation is the ultimate bar cart accessory.PUNCH is a James Beard Award-winning online magazine devoted to narrative journalism about wine, spirits, beer, and cocktails.AMARO 

The Italian word for bitter, amaro (plural: amari) represents the distinctive category of aromatic, bittersweet herbal liqueurs traditionally sipped as a digestif at the end of a meal. Medieval friars and monks used their study of botany to transform herbs and botanicals into restorative tonics and elixirs that people consumed for medicinal purposes. These tonics eventually graduated from medicinal to recreational and spread throughout Europe—hence why the practice of taking an herbal or bittersweet digestif after a meal extends far beyond the Italian border, into countries like Germany, France, Denmark, Hungary, and the Czech Republic.

Italian amaro is known for its regionally inspired, proprietary recipes passed down through generations; in fact, many renowned brands are still family affairs, like Nonino, Varnelli, Fernet-Branca, Meletti, Luxardo, Lucano, Cappelletti, and Nardini. Amaro is traditionally made by macerating or infusing bittering agents like cinchona bark or gentian root with a blend of herbs, flowers, fruit peels, barks, and spices in a neutral spirit or grape distillate that is then filtered and sweetened with sugar. Many are barrel-aged for continued maturation and bottled at 16% to 40% alcohol by volume. The range of flavors of amaro varies from bright citrus to floral to vegetal to woodsy tol