The Bartender's Bible: 1001 Mixed Drinks and Everything You Need to Know to Set Up Your Bar

• Stocking and equipping a bar'from liquors and mixers to condiments, garnishes, and equipment
• Shot-by-shot recipes for over 1,000 cocktails and mixed drinks from bourbon to rum to whiskey
• Wine drinks
• Beer drinks
• Nonalcoholic drinks
• Special category drinks'tropical, classics, aperitifs, cordials, hot drinks, and party punches
• Anecdotes and histories of favorite potables
• And more!

A bartender, as a rule, is a person who enjoys the company of others, endeavors to solve problems, listens to the woes of the world, sympathizes with the mistreated, laughs with the comedians, cheers up the down at heart, and generally controls the atmosphere at his or her bar. A bartender is the manager of moods, the master of mixology. Certain scenarios are played out over and over again in bars everywhere. The questions are basically the same; only the details vary: What's in a true Singapore Sling? How long has the Martini been around? What's the difference between a Fix and a Fizz? A reference book is as necessary to a bartender as ice.
-- from The Bartender's Bible