A Guide to Cocktail Construction
By; Brent Nakano
Cocktail recipes are generally formulaic. All tend to be derivatives of: Cocktail = Base Spirit + Sweetener + Aromatic Component. Thus, there are a few general cocktail concepts, with the remainder being a variation on the theme in one way or another. However, the way one looks at the core formulas can vary. Staples of every cocktail book collection should include The Cocktail Codex by Alex Day, Nick Fauchald, and David Kaplan of Death and Co., and its predecessor The Joy of Mixology by Gary Regan. These books present their take on the variations with numerous examples. The following is Hawaii Beverage Guide’s simplified take on the core cocktail formulas, and common variations to those core formulas.
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