Bartender's Book Club: Cocktail Codex

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Bartender's Book Club: Cocktail Codex

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OK so this is the first time and last time I attempt a book review after a long day of cocktail tasting....
Truth be told I didn't go as in depth with this one as I'd like to have and I blame it all on shooting this after a long long long day of shooting tutorials. That said, the info in here is relevant and I think I give a fair review to The Death and Co peeps on this book. It also features a pretty good friend of mine and an undeniably talented bartender so it's worth the view. But do I get tipsy enough to do something inappropriate? There's only one way to find out! Hope you like the review! See ya in the comments!
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@aikilimpan 4 жыл бұрын

I certainly would like to see interviews with the authors of the books.

@zachbritten8922 Жыл бұрын

Agreed

@AmirMomo1 4 жыл бұрын

Cocktail Codex was one of the first cocktail books I read and I still use it as very often! Wanted to say thanks to you guys, I've just gotten a new job at a more established cocktail bar here in Copenhagen and your channels have been a great source of knowledge that has proppeled me into working with some really talented people out there. Started working with cocktails about 15 months ago and I have already seen a huge growth in my knowledge and alot of that is thanks to your videos, book reviews and all. I actually had a vacation planned with my girlfriend to come to LA next week where one of our stops would be your bar - unfortunately the US has closed all traffic from EU due to the virus so it has got to be another time. I would btw ofc tune in for 30-60 min for an indepth cocktail conversation - I am a sucker for that stuff.

@freepour 4 жыл бұрын

Oh man! That’s a bummer! This virus is certainly ruining so much for us all! Hopefully we meet another time!

@stickerkiller 4 жыл бұрын

Do the interviews as a podcast!

@TorkildKahrs 4 жыл бұрын

Short answer: Yes! Long answer: Yes! And combine it with "The Sporting Life".

@willmcconnellsimpson1411 4 жыл бұрын

I’d be interested to see some interviews. Maybe it could be split into two or more sections? But I’d say 20-30 minutes tops.

@sameddington9000 4 жыл бұрын

That sounds amazing. An extended interview/podcast by Leandro is all that we want

@dalepalarz3921 4 жыл бұрын

Oh...and a big 'yes' to interviews!

@elimenaker1940 4 жыл бұрын

I am definitely all in on interviews of any length about these books. I can almost treat it like a podcast and just listening in to the discussion and getting a deep dive in these great books.

@kalenberreman8252 4 жыл бұрын

Great book, this one and their first book. Those are my "textbooks" of bartending, must haves for any professionals or amateurs alike.

@letoatreides5553 4 жыл бұрын

Yes to the interviews so very much yes!

@ShaneCopelin 4 жыл бұрын

I have this book thanks to you and love it. I'd love to see an interview with the authors. Great job!

@Adrian_Creates 4 жыл бұрын

Yes! Interviews please... I agree that it should be “as long as it takes”. You can also clip out pieces if you want to appease people who want quick bite-sized videos.

@dalepalarz3921 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent review of an excellent book. I have been delving into it for some time now and have found it invaluable. Cheers!

@shamirmilano1156 3 жыл бұрын

Man i'd love to see interviews. That would be so inspiring to all of us! Cheers from Italy brother

@Derekisamazinggg 4 жыл бұрын

Just bought this book, came to KZfaq looking for interviews with the authors and found your review

@RonkeyRong 4 жыл бұрын

I'd looooove to see an interview with them. Even a digital one would be dope

@ascendedvegeta 4 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah I'd tune in for interviews! However long it takes! If I can't finish the video in one sitting then I'll come back and finish it another time

@tristanbowser6533 4 жыл бұрын

Yes! I would greatly welcome the longer form content.

@juantraine2869 4 жыл бұрын

I like that interview idea!

@The3lse 4 жыл бұрын

One gazillion percent I would be interested in seeing conversations and interveiws with the authors of the books. I would watch them if they were 10 minutes, I would watch them if they were an hour. That sounds awesome.

@UberDCDriver 4 жыл бұрын

I am just starting out, but the book still sounds very interesting. I completely get the buzz on making cocktails all day and come across one that just tastes so good, you have to finish it. Cheers!

@mateuszwnuk-lipinski8846 4 жыл бұрын

Great idea... such interviews could inspire a lot of people of doing new things... Totally yes!!

@galisseroff471 4 жыл бұрын

Yes you should it’s sounds like a great idea. I love reading the books about bartending and want to know what was the authors idea for writing the book. Also, a huge shoutout from Israel, you are creating an amazing content

@MrMoney331 4 жыл бұрын

Yes would love to see the interviews! Here and there, not every episode.

@angel2of7death 4 жыл бұрын

Lovin the new channel. Would be cool to see you guys try out hangover cures. Something like following you through a few nights of heavy drinking while trying several methods and discovering if any of them work. I tried hair of the doggin it a couple times recently and gotta say, really helps! Cheers

@robert_ash 4 жыл бұрын

Yep great idea! I would love the interview format with the author. 15-20 minutes would be perfect!

@maquinacinematica 4 жыл бұрын

Yes! Interviews and a cocktail would be great :)

@joshsmith7865 4 жыл бұрын

to answer your question - a thousand times yes. i think a tight 15-20 min interview would be great, unless they're making drinks with you then i'd watch considerably longer.

@fevereddreams3805 4 жыл бұрын

omg the interview idea is great. and the content can be translated into a podcast for additional saturation and opportunities. a particular note of interest would be the authors first cocktail they tasted, they made, and what drew the to the craft.

@SophiaRavenna 4 жыл бұрын

Yay! I actually have this one :) Started reading it this past weekend. As a beginner, my thought is to essentially tackle one chapter per month -- make the basic version of the cocktail, maybe try some of their variants that are accessible for my skill level/supplies, maybe dip into some of my other beginner-friendly books for some easier variants. I figure taking it one chapter at a time will hopefully stop me from going too crazy buying ingredients and allow me to really focus. Speaking of ingredients, I find that in addition to books like this using weird proprietary ingredients that I might not be able to get my hands on, I have the opposite problem -- as someone who loves shopping local and supporting small businesses, I'll buy local spirits, syrups, and bitters with unique flavor profiles and then I have to figure out how to use them :P Hence my interest in books like this, which will hopefully teach me a lot about how to determine which ingredients I can swap in and out and which flavors go well together.

@freepour 4 жыл бұрын

It definitely will!

@johnolmos8670 4 жыл бұрын

Inviting the author would be an awesome idea!!!I for one would watch this and take notes myself

@ImprovisedCocktail 4 жыл бұрын

I would LOVE to hear you pick author's brains! I watch multi-hour videos that are interesting. That being said, I find that a good interview format is a 1 hour maximum. But multi-part videos are cool too :)

@ryanlewiz 4 жыл бұрын

I was lucky to have Freshmen dorm placement force me to get to know Alex. The man was the only one willing to commute 5 hours on a weekday to go to a concert. He is nothing short of brilliant, witty and the first to win the James Beard Cookbook of the Year Award...not about food. I realized there are benefits to asking for suggestions on the duration. It depends on how many quality questions you can prepare that suit you’re audience. I figure your subscribers enjoy your style of communicating; prepare as many questions as possible that are best suited to your viewers.

@andrewdessert987 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, make it as long as the conversation requires. That’s why you have this spin-off channel 😀

@freepour 4 жыл бұрын

Yes that IS why I have this spinoff channel 😂

@krishnakmenon271 4 жыл бұрын

Please please please come up with interviews! It's a brilliant idea! Would love to watch such content!

@freepour 4 жыл бұрын

We will just a matter of figuring out how to do it while social distancing!

@pbr-streetgang Жыл бұрын

And knowing is half the battle!📚📖

@TheFredobar 4 жыл бұрын

I would absolutely watch an author interview!

@jacobwohler673 3 жыл бұрын

I‘d love to see Interviews with authors or Bartenders in generell. A podcast would be a great idea

@ScourgePrime87 4 жыл бұрын

I'd love to see that as long as you make drinks during it. If you're making drinks, bouncing ideas off each other, and getting their story, I'd definitely watch 30 - 40 minutes of that.

@lttrbox 3 жыл бұрын

I want the interviews! I want them! :D

@pnwesty7174 4 жыл бұрын

Just got this recently. It was super interesting approach for a noob like me - from the base 6 up through advanced stuff. I like learning about cooking the same way - when you learn about a concept (cooking technique, flavor profiles, fat/acid/etc., whatever) you build a knowledge into which ingredient understanding and flexibility come in. In just the last few weeks since buying, I've been "playing" with recipes and feeling free to swap for ingredients I don't have to tweek something. Following a recipe book is too basic for my interest - at least right now. And *absolutely* into extended interviews with authors. Come to Portland and have an event at Clyde Common. ;-)

@OldmanIII 4 жыл бұрын

Would love to see an interesting interview with the author. I agree it should be as long as it takes.

@phrides 3 жыл бұрын

First: This is the book that turned the lightbulb on for me. I don't do much with the advanced techniques, but understanding the families of drinks and how they play with modern sensibilities and modern product lines is invaluable, both for creating new drinks and dialing-in classics to my palate and current bottles. I know that this video is a year old (somehow the Freepour channel has eluded me), but since you asked, if you are inviting authors of cocktail books, you should be mixing-up drinks together while you talk, standing around or sitting at a bar rather than lounging in chairs. The way you do that could depend on the author. If you got Devon Tarby to join you, you could do something akin to "the tasting" outlined D&C's other book, where you create a fabulous new drink out of whole cloth on camera or fail miserably. If you could somehow get David Wondrich to join you, you would simply let him wax eloquent about what you were mixing-up. Every author has a thing and a drink or twenty to bring to the table. The key thing is to keep the liquor flowing and the stories coming, rather than doing a sit-down interview.

@freepour 3 жыл бұрын

I’m good friends with Devon I’m sure she’d do it. Alex day already commented on this video saying he’d love to do an interview with us and I bet wondrich would too. Great ideas for sure!

@peterverdon645 4 жыл бұрын

Would definitely be interested in an interview segment.

@grapetonenatches186 3 жыл бұрын

This book is great. Finally helped me make a martini that i could enjoy.

@jonspliid 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the inspiration. I just ordered the book. The choice was between this one ans Smuggler's Cove. I'd love to see you review that one too.

@freepour 4 жыл бұрын

Oooooh it’s coming for sure! Maybe next actually

@pauldi7268 3 жыл бұрын

Would love to see an interview episode especially if it's long

@shayantani81 4 жыл бұрын

Looking forward to your showing off the "Death and Co" and "Liquid intelligence" book

@lxxwj 4 жыл бұрын

i think interviews would be cool, i probably wouldnt watch a whole hour of it but if it was under an hour id definitely be interested

@Halcyon485 4 жыл бұрын

I’d definitely watch interviews.

@ziggymack2233 4 жыл бұрын

If you haven't yet, I would love to see that or you could even do a 30 min podcast. That would do better on quarterly live streams or monthly on radio podcasts

@thomasjahr1292 4 жыл бұрын

I love this book, made a cocktail tasting for my frinds, with 2 drinks from eatch category. That was a succes. I will enjoy watching interviews, with both authors and bartenders. Something like between 20 and 40 min.

@IverJ 4 жыл бұрын

One of my favorites in my collection. I might like that one better than their 1st book.

@leepetrenka 4 жыл бұрын

i would be interested in that content. I'd also love to see a series on how you go about creating your own cocktails. I've made few of my own, mostly from understanding the flavor profiles of the stuff i have. some have turned out awesome... others... not so much.

@freepour 4 жыл бұрын

I just shot the first episode on creating your own cocktails today! With an example Cocktail

@leepetrenka 4 жыл бұрын

@@freepour awesome! Can't wait to see it!!

@matteonovelo4745 3 жыл бұрын

Definitely get the authors on here!

@bharkins90 4 жыл бұрын

Love the video

@HaydenHarrison412 4 жыл бұрын

I would love to see the creators make their own cocktails.

@SuperKisaro 4 жыл бұрын

First: Great T-Shirt! Second: I already own the Cocktail Codex as.an amateur/home „mixologist“ from Europe. I didn‘t have the impression that they use that much proprietary brands that I can‘t get my hands on. But even if so: On a plus side they also discuss almost all types of liquors and their typical brands that are used in mixing, so they also give you guidance about what can be replaced with what. (At least a bit) Third: DO INTERVIEWS! Thank you :)

@freepour 4 жыл бұрын

True enough they just use clear creek products a lot which I can get here in LA no problem but are not widely available worldwide it’s a problem I run into when making cocktails on the regular channel as well. Also they source herbs and some tinctures from a company which requires a wholesale license. Some of these ingredients can be replaced, but some are a bit difficult to get. I found this problem more prevalent in their first book. That said it’s not the point of the book, the recipes really are just a guide to breaking down the template of a root cocktail and showing the almost limitless variety when following a template

@CopyCatCo 4 жыл бұрын

I’d definitely be interested to hear the authors talk about their books, but I don’t know if I’d be half an hour interested.

@djason_music 4 жыл бұрын

This is my fav book. As a beginner I was overwhelmed, but I found out if I just read the main bits, and skip any of the cocktails created by the authors (because they are always the complex ones where they infuse their own spirits, use more obscure ingredients, etc) then it was very approachable

@alexiladeroute2182 4 жыл бұрын

leondro, youre so well spoken that i think an extended podcast-style show on this channel would do super well. check out nick drinks channel as a reference; i love your industry specials in general so if you have an in to talk to these industry hot shots i think you should give it a shot.

@leslieabell6673 4 жыл бұрын

Yes to the interviews.

@jackimyers9364 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, I would like authors interviewed.

@phokusdwarfstar 3 жыл бұрын

Yes!

@amirhosseinghajar2175 4 жыл бұрын

yes to interviews :D

@TheTribalBarGuy 4 жыл бұрын

Interviews will be great to see! Why the author(s) choose those drinks, etc. The durration I guess depends of the guest you have since there are people you can be talking with for hours! Maybe you can ask them to sign a copy and make a giveaway? :@) I am looking forward for the next video... tomorrow at noon on the other channel.

@ansoneckel2552 4 жыл бұрын

I would love to see interviews with the authors.

@cactusmann5542 4 жыл бұрын

The codex mixtartes!! :)

@Deathmetaldano 4 жыл бұрын

Definitely would be into that.

@charliethechevilguy 4 жыл бұрын

a podcast style sitdown with authors and industry leaders would be very interesting and original. I, personally, would listen to a Barfly podcast. It is, however, a totally different and challanging set of skills, but I think you have the potential to do it well.

@EricHonaker 4 жыл бұрын

I'm definitely down for the interview videos. Sometimes interview episodes on other channels end up being very unscripted and take 1.5 or 2 hours. Which might be interesting, or might be a waste of time. But the idea of a 30 minute conversation, actually edited rather than raw footage, sounds great.

@SilentKiller-fx1qj 4 жыл бұрын

Great book

@dravendrinks 4 жыл бұрын

I've been reading this book its fucking amazing and indeed inspiring! So many bookmarks. I'd like to see some of the people on but I'd say take shots amidst the interview kinda like hot ones

@stephane.foisy.186 4 жыл бұрын

Sounds interesting and something I may enjoy. Will add to the list, no affiliate link for canada, so... and yes the interview sounds fun, Smugglers cove. But may limit how often and maybe add a make a drink with it.

@freepour 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah I’m not allowed affiliate links for Canada :(

@-Seeker- 4 жыл бұрын

The Codex Cocktailus supports this video.

@ClioSport2016v 4 жыл бұрын

Yes

@miguelandres78 4 жыл бұрын

it would be cool to see short interview

@cynderdoonan3786 4 жыл бұрын

He'll yes to the interviews Bartender at large does super popular interviews with people in the industry, it would be great to see similar on your channel ☺️

@freepour 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah! Castro is a master not sure mine will be as good but I can try for sure!

@cynderdoonan3786 4 жыл бұрын

@@freepour man don't compare yourself, that's no good❤️ just do your own thing and be yourself we'll love it bro❤️

@facekick459 4 жыл бұрын

It's so funny that you mentioned Tempus Fugit liqueurs not being available in France. I recall visiting a bar in Cognac where they happened to have the creme de menthe! It made a killer stinger with a butter fat-washed cognac. Also, yes. PLEASE do an interview with Alex Day, Devon Tarby, and the rest of the authors of this book. I'd watch an hour-length interview if that's what it ends up as

@freepour 4 жыл бұрын

I know Devon pretty well and I’ll try and nail down Alex Day next time he’s in LA. I will def do some follow ups with Authors whenever I can on the books I’ve already done and try and get sit down interviews on ones I haven’t done yet

@Domination1223 4 жыл бұрын

Immediately bought the book

@cnhoffman 4 жыл бұрын

I'd love to hear more from the authors.

@rubensantos4776 4 жыл бұрын

I would love for you to leave a link with all your library of books of cocktails Cheers

@carltremblay4371 4 жыл бұрын

Please do interviews! And time wise just go with the flow!!

@TheFeralBachelor 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, interviews can be good.

@blackimp 4 жыл бұрын

I think Interviews are always great. I would also watch a 30 minutes interview, if it's a good conversation.

@ShaneCopelin 4 жыл бұрын

If you could get those interviews I would love it. I really hope that could be something.

@freepour 4 жыл бұрын

It’s going to be already scheduled the first one!

@turnstylepoet 4 жыл бұрын

I'd love to see an extended interview format.

@freepour 4 жыл бұрын

Done and done

@turnstylepoet 4 жыл бұрын

@@freepour Awesome! I'm a huge fan of what you do. Looking forward to the interviews.

@AngryObie 4 жыл бұрын

The people want interviews! Maybe interview and make cocktails at the same time.

@zeroanima 4 жыл бұрын

I imagine a conversation with Dave Arnold, yeeees

@timothystephenson2554 4 жыл бұрын

I would be super down with in depth conversations with other bartenders and professionals you find interesting in the business.

@Mulceber 4 жыл бұрын

It would be awesome to see the authors interviewed. Ideally shorter than 30 minutes, at least most of the time.

@kid.dynamite4918 4 жыл бұрын

thank you

@White__Ink 4 жыл бұрын

Is there an unreleased videos on patreon on agar clarifications? I just finished my first (shoddy) batch of clear ice using your techniques and I want to make CLEAR gin collins!

@freepour 4 жыл бұрын

I haven’t done agar clarifications but I’ve been meaning to do them for a good long while now

@Eckstant 4 жыл бұрын

If not a podcast for the interviews, think about Twitch or the like.

@mosses1991 4 жыл бұрын

Yes to interviewing the author

@migueldelacruz4243 4 жыл бұрын

I think having a guest author would be cool, but making cocktails together as well.

@claks_cocktails2838 4 жыл бұрын

I have c 80 cocktail books. It’s in the top 3.

@artirony410 4 жыл бұрын

IMO the book is far more useful for just understanding how the drinks work rather than the recipes itself (although those are nice as well)

@gabejulich6244 2 жыл бұрын

So not a bar book, but a book I've found to be very inspiring, mainly in the kitchen, but also when trying to think outside norm. when making new cocktails is a great book called The Flavor Bible by Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg.

@freepour 2 жыл бұрын

Yep and I got it and I got the Vegetarian Flavor Bible which is even better for cocktails