RAISING THE BAR.

• Author: Suderman, Peter

In Raising the Bar: A Bottle-by - Bottle Guide to Mixing Masterful Cocktails at Home, Jacob Grier and Brett Adams help aspiring home bartenders build a bar, or at least a collection of booze, via a carefully sequenced collection of about two dozen bottles. Each recommended new bottle expands the cocktail repertoire a home barkeep can make by supplementing what he or she already has on hand. It's a clever and well-executed concept for what amounts to a boozy cookbook, with more than 200 great cocktail recipes.

This book and its...