Roundbuilding: A Bartender’s Guide to Cocktail Techniques and Bar Skills book each with its own full-colour

each with its own full-colour photograph

tapered tins that make a dependable two-piece shaker: a small 18oz (532ml) and a large 28oz (830ml)

ABV 24% | 70cl | Netherlands

savoury celery bitters made with natural celery and a blend of spice extracts

caramel and toffee over a quinine bitterness and a faint smokiness

Roundbuilding: A Bartender’s Guide to Cocktail Techniques and Bar Skills book each with its own full-colourMaking one drink is easy enough; making a round of them, well and at pace, is a skill in its own right, and one cocktail writing has largely overlooked. Roundbuilding puts it centre stage. Daniel Waddy and Kevin Armstrong, whose four decades between them run from the Match Bar Group of the early 2000s to todays Satans Whiskers, set out the techniques for building several drinks at once and the thinking that ties them together. This is not a coffee