Bartending Course Notes
The Mixology Handbook
Technique, tools, measures, glassware and 50 essential cocktails in one free e-book.
Free PDF · 73 pages · US Letter and A4
Print at actual size (100%), not “fit to page”, so the boxes and lines come out the size they were drawn. Free for personal use: print as many copies as you like for your home or your party.
What’s inside
- Bartending basics
- Techniques and terms
- Measures and conversions
- Syrups and substitutions
- Glassware
- Stocking the home bar
- 50 essential cocktails: 50 recipes, one to a page with its photo and a QR code — Old Fashioned, Manhattan, Dry Martini, Negroni, Daiquiri, Margarita, Mojito, Whiskey Sour, Moscow Mule, Cosmopolitan and more
- The cheat sheet
On the site
The academy: bartending, step by step: 24cocktails.com/academy/basics
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