Beverages Books

Happy Hour Snacks is a go-to guide to simple, delicious food to share in the looser, lazier and louder comfort of your own home. Containing 80 moreish recipes, this cookbook is about making bites with less utensils, more shortcuts, and with a drink in...

Recreate the most popular drinks to have been shaken, stirred and swallowed at one of the world’s most unique venues.'Among Ibiza’s growing raft of luxury hotels, Pikes remains a characterful standout. The venue has carved a niche as a hedonistic...

This 50-card boxed set and a 64-page book provides everything you need to know to create exquisite home-grown cocktails from foraged fruits, herbs and edible flowers.Lottie Muir is the creator of the Midnight Apothecary pop-up cocktail bar, set in a roof...

More than 45 lip-smacking recipes for Margarita cocktails that capture the spirit of the fiesta.People everywhere are drinking tequila – from the best-known brands to the rarer tequilas and mescals revered by connoisseurs. The Margarita, has survived...

A collection of 80 delicious contemporary and classic recipes divided into five easy chapters from Fuss-free Crowd Pleasers to Cocktails to Impress, Summer Sippers, Holiday Favourites and even Mocktails – there are drinks for everyone. Along the way,...

Can’t decide between a Sidecar or an Old Fashioned, or want to try something altogether new? Let these dice call the shots!  Shake things up with just a roll of the dice: one for liquors, one for mixers, and one for garnishes and extra flavor. With...

Get the party started with this awesome collection of Prosecco-themed games to play with friends.What could be better than getting the girls together, grabbing a glass and cracking open a bottle of bubbles? Why, throwing a few Prosecco-based drinking...

Each cocktail is an experience built on flavour and scent and can be enjoyed throughout the day. Try Bubble Brunch to start your morning, Peach Break for elevenses, Tokyo Flower as an aperitif, Sunset Time for dinner and Citrus Tonic to finish the night...

It’s time to dust off your shakers and gather your limes, because rum is the hottest spirit in the world right now! Rum evokes a feeling of escapism like no other spirit and just about everyone needs a vacation, or at the very least a mai tai! Here...

Dan Jones teaches you how to stock your home bar, pick some of the world’s best whiskies and pull together your own infusions and syrups. Try your hand at classics like an Old Fashioned or The Sazerac, or modern hits like Bourbon Smash or The...

Compact and easy-to-navigate, the Halliday Pocket Wine Companion 2024 distils the key elements of the bestselling annual guide, curating the best-of-the-best by value and rating across Australia's key wine regions. For almost 40 years,...

WINNER OF THE 2024 JAMES BEARD AWARD FOR BEST BEVERAGE WITH RECIPES BOOK WINNER OF THE 2024 GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS AWARD FOR DRINKS BOOK SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 ANDRE SIMON AWARDSlow Drinks teaches home cooks, industry pros, homebrewers, and foragers...

This 50-card boxed set and 64-page book features an expert guide to setting up a home bar from one of the world’s leading bartenders.Preparing a first-class cocktail relies upon an understanding of its ingredients and the delicate alchemy of how they...

In his World Cocktail Atlas Olly Smith serves up the best cocktail recipes the world has to offer. From the prohibition-inspired speakeasy drinks of the US to the art of the Japanese Izakaya, Italian spritzes and amaro, Mexican margaritas, Korean soju...

A classic cocktail relies on relatively few ingredients so every element has to be just right. Bitters, those little bottles you will find in any bar worth its salt, are the unsung heroes of the cocktail world. Where would the Manhattan be without orange...

For over thirty years James Halliday AM has been Australia's most respected wine critic, and his Halliday Wine Companion is recognised as the industry benchmark for Australian wine. A best-selling annual, the Halliday Wine...

With one hand alcohol gives us some of the most fun times imaginable, especially when playing drinking games. With the other it delivers crushing headaches and nausea. Sometimes you question if it’s really worth the pain. “Hell yeah!” is the answer,...

Put together by Decanter senior staffers Stephen Brook and Amy Wislocki, this labour of love showed the readers the wines and the vintage that would have become the most sort after bottles of wine in the world.From the 1959 Lafite-Rothschild to the 2001...

Coffee lovers: here are recipes and inspiration for every taste, mood, and complexity, making for the perfect coffee drink for each moment of the day.While the popularity of craft cocktails and home bartending have helped people create their own...

Bring some old Hollywood glamour into your home with these show-stopping tipples, inspired by the bars and stars of the golden age of Hollywood.Step into the sparkling streets of Hollywood and be transported back in time with this gorgeous facsimile...

This is a grand and luxurious compendium on the most elegant beverage by world-renowned champagne expert Richard Juhlin.Richard Juhlin, the world’s foremost champagne expert, takes readers on a journey through the history of the beverage, the leading...

At the beginning of the book, tea expert Timothy d’Offay starts with the very basics with a section on water and tea tools to make brewing easier, like the hoop jug that helps you get the water temperature right for your green tea in an instant and with...

Strong, Sweet and Bitter is the debut cocktail recipe book from Cara Devine, hostess of the popular YouTube series Behind the Bar.Diving into the fundamental ‘Flavour Triangle’ of drink mixing, Strong, Sweet and Bitter reveals how flavour...

Lighthearted and full of easy-to-make drinks, Free Spirit Cocktails is a refreshing approach to cocktail-making without the hangover. This collection of 40 zero-alcohol recipes features a wide variety of flavourful refreshments that have the look and...

Welcome to the cider revolution — explore the fine cider movement, and the people and producers behind it. Think you know about cider? Well, think again. It’s not about the swill you guzzled as a student, or the so-called ‘flavoured ciders’ that don’t...

A deep dive into the world of Champagne and sparkling wine, with tips, information, and irreverent inspiration that will empower you to pop some bubbly anytime, anywhere.   "Champagne and I have something in common: What if anything is possible?"In...

For anyone who feels intimidated in a wine shop – vast selection, mystifying variety, attitudinal staff – this guide simplifies choosing wine in an easy-to-use system of pictograms.With this innovative book, browsing and buying wine is...

Over 50 gin-credible recipes for refreshing cocktails for all occasions, from the classics to new and exciting creations.With more flavours and brands of gin on offer than ever before, it’s no wonder that this spirit is so treasured and beloved by many...

Behind the Bar: Gin uncovers 50 gin cocktails from bars around the world, as well as anecdotes from the gin scene. In Behind the Bar: Gin, Alia Akkam gives a guided tour around bars around the world and their gin cocktails. From the Enzoni Cobbler at the...

Find endless amounts of wine pairing inspiration in these colourful pages. Discover amazing pairings like:Za'atar-spiced pita chips with floral rosé Grilled peaches and ricotta with fruity Sauvignon Blanc A hearty charcuterie board with robust...

World Cocktail Adventures is a virtual cocktail tour in book form by creative duo Loni Carr and Brett Gramse of The Whiskey Ginger. With a total of 40 unique cocktail recipes featured, each recipe includes easy-to-access ingredients and a...

Not long after his son was born, Derek Brown decided to cut back on his drinking. But as a bartender, bar owner, and cocktail and spirits expert, he wanted do so using the techniques and expertise of mixology to create a new arsenal of libations that...

Batched & Bottled Cocktails features 50 of the best recipes for batched and bottled cocktails – cocktails you can pre-make and bottle, and either pour straight over ice or leave to mature for an hour, a month or even a year.From Negronis and...

Wineries of the World celebrates the architecture and design of contemporary viniculture. From a vineyard in Napa Valley in the U.S., to an Italian winery estate in the hills of Tuscany, to an Australian enterprise at the cutting edge of organic...

Originally published in French in 1927 as part of a set of promotional books for French wine distributor Nicolas, Monseigneur le Vin is a lovely illustrated jewel of a wine primer brought back into print.The book is perfectly relevant to today's wine...

With 60 recipes, Three Ingredient Cocktails demonstrate that all the best cocktails are made with no more than three ingredients – think martini, old fashioned and margaritas.Divided by main ingredient – gin, vodka, tequila, whisky, rum and sparkling...

A mouth-watering selection of classic pub menu comfort food to cook and enjoy at home – from toad-in-the-hole to sticky toffee pudding.Enjoy a true taste of eating out at your local with this one-stop recipe collection of traditional gastro pub fare...

With more than 40 vodka-based cocktail recipes – from classics to contemporary twists – this is a must-have bar companion for anyone who enjoys their vodka. Vodka makes the ideal base for a cocktail and is perhaps the most mixable and useful...

Wild Drinksis the definitive book on infusing, brewing and fermenting delicious and often nutritious things to drink, from mead to kombucha to cider to kvass. With the entertaining and assuring voice of fermentation expert Sharon Flynn, it is a...

Having played host to high society from Paris to New York and learned the art of cooking and presentation from some of France's most celebrated chefs at the Hotel de Crillon in Paris, Claudia Taittinger is a consummate entertainer and bon vivant – who...

Enjoy cocktails at any time of day with this collection of fresh, creative low- and no-alcohol recipes.Celebrating seasonal ingredients, and with a focus on sustainability, All Day Cocktailsshowcases nearly fifty varieties of citrus, berries,...

Nightcap is a cocktail book that tackles the idea of what to serve at the end of the night. Focusing on a wide variety of nightcap options, separated by what the night holds in storestrong drinks for partying, low ABV ones for calling it a night, dessert...

In bars, restaurants, and cocktail lounges all over the world, drinkers have long had a fond appreciation for a French cocktail, but many are unaware of its origins. Following Prohibition, Paris, much like London, became a capital of drinks. Although...

A collection of 40 delicious cocktail recipes featuring the hugely popular Italian sparkling wine that has taken social drinking by a storm – Prosecco!Ah, Prosecco, how we love it! With its crisp, zesty bubbles and light, fruity flavour, Champagne’s...

Aromatic, refreshing, delicious and a feast for the eyes, the generously-sized and creatively garnished ‘gin tonica’ Spanish-style drink is taking the cocktail world by storm.Spaniards love their gin and tonics. In Spain, the bartender doesn’t ask you...

From high-end magazines to design-inspiration websites to stores big and small, bar carts are a must have piece of furniture, and this book offers all the answers to the question – how can I get that look at home? The Art of the Bar Cart features 20...

Around the World in 80 Cocktails celebrates the globetrotting history of the cocktail through eighty different cocktails – each with its own story to tell. Bartender and writer Chad Parkhill takes you on a whirlwind tour of the places that have...

There is no aspect of the Australian wine industry that remains untouched by the hand of James Halliday. In a much-lauded career in wine spanning over forty years and accumulating innumerable awards, James has seen it all.   Join James as...