BARTENDERS! FREE BOOKS FOR YOU!

18 Apr 2016 By David Fuhrmann-Lim

Vintage and rare cocktail books dating from 1750s through the 1940s are all yours! For free! And who is the benevolent booze god making all this available? Read on and find out. (Yes, free!)

The bartending profession has a rich and varied history that only recently has come to light during the past two decades. Vintage cocktail and distillation books filled with recipes, techniques, and management procedures are being unearthed and collected at an unprecedented pace.

For the new generations of bartenders these rare volumes, dating from the 1820s through the 1940s, are financially out of reach. However, these sources of research are crucial to career development and creative inspiration as well as to personal advancement in a profession that has rediscovered a justifiable sense of pride and purpose.

Over the coming year, they will make available free, digitised versions of these classics that you can read online and search in a user-friendly, page-through format. These include:

Cooling Cups & Dainty Drinks by William Terrington (1872)

Jayne’s Bartender’s Guide (1934)

The Cocktail Book: A Sideboard Manual for Gentlemen (1926)

The Complete Distiller by Ambrose Cooper (1757)

With over 1,000 volumes at their access, they will also need your help in deciding which volumes you find most important to you as a bar professional.

Email them at info@euvslibrary.com with your suggestions for upcoming titles that you would like to read online.

Browse HERE now.

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