Cheer: A Liquid Gold Holiday Drinking Guide

by Mike Wolf

Overview

Raise your holiday spirit (and a glass of your favorite holiday spirits) with Cheer: A Liquid Gold Holiday Drinking Guide.

From expert mixologists and the hosts of the hit drinking podcast Liquid Gold comes the most complete holiday cocktail book with 125+ recipes to delight drinking enthusiasts of all kinds throughout the busiest entertainment seasons of the year. The beginner-friendly recipes are perfect for mixing drinks with friends and family, or preparing refreshments in advance to maximize your time spent with loved ones. Enjoy recipes for every season, including: 

• The first chill in the air with whiskey cocktails, apple brandy, and pumpkin spice drinks
• Halloween cocktails and punches 
• Thanksgiving pairings, wines, and apéritifs
• Christmas and holiday whiskey cream, eggnog drinks, and ice cream cocktails
• New Years sparkling wine cocktails and champagnes 
• Dry  January non-alcoholic cocktails, and a guide to making cordials that allow you to make beautiful non-alcoholic drinks

. . . and more! From alcoholic cocktails of all shapes and sizes to non-alcoholic drinks ranging from seasonal coffees to cider, hot chocolate, and teas, Cheer: A Liquid Gold Holiday Drinking Guide is an invaluable holiday resource and quintessential companion for the holiday season.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781684425648
Publisher:	Turner Publishing Company
Publication date:	11/15/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	183 MB
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About the Author

Mike Wolf is a writer, bar manager, vermouth maker, broadcaster, gardener, husband, and father living in Nashville, Tennessee. He opened and established the bar program at Husk in Nashville, spending five years developing a hyper-seasonal and regional approach to cocktails, commemorated in his first book, Garden to Glass: Grow Your Drinks from the Ground Up, hailed by Paste magazine as the “best food or drink book of 2019.” He opened the tropical drinks and robot tiki haven Chopper in East Nashville in summer 2019. His second book, Barantined, a culmination of recipes and stories from bartenders around the country dealing with a global pandemic, came out in spring 2021. He co-hosts the podcast, Liquid Gold, which is the partial namesake of this book, along with co-contributors and Booze News anchor Kenneth Dedmon and Cocktail Correspondent Jessica Backhus. Wolf has been making vermouth with Love and Exile Wines in Nashville and is currently the bar manager at Sean Brock’s new flagship restaurant, Audrey.

Table of Contents

Foreword Lisa Donovan 7

Introduction: Liquid Gold for the Holidaze 13

The First Chill in the Air

1 Whiskey Drinks by the Fire, with Friends 21

2 Orchard-Based Cider, Apple Brandy, and Orchard Cocktails 45

Pumpkins, Zombies, + Agavember

3 Persimmon, Pawpaw, and Pumpkin Spice 81

4 Halloween and Revealing the Zombie 123

5 A Spooky Season Short Story-"Who Cooks for You?" 151

6 Agavember-The Wide World of Agave Drinks 161

Thankful for Thanksgiving

7 Hot Buttered Fun-Friendsgiving 195

Runways Last: An Adept Guide to Holiday Party Planning Jessica Backhus

8 A Collage of Apéritif-Prelude to a Big Meal 215

Autumnal Italian Grandpa Drinks by Geography Jessica Backhus

9 Wine Pairings Beyond Thanksgiving Turkey 243

Traditions, Treats, and Tipples Jessica Backhus

Holidaze

10 Eggnog is a Riot 271

11 Christmas Traditions at Home and Abroad 293

Harry Potter Cocktail Party Brittany Augustine

12 A Christmas Short Story-"Rickshaw Road" 339

New Year, New Brews

13 New Year's Eve-Beyond the French 75 (but That Too) 355

14 Settling the Bloody Mary, and Other Hangover Remedies 369

Dr. Pick-Me-Up Jessica Backhus

Acknowledgements 389

About the Author 391

Editorial Reviews

Praise for Mike Wolf's Barantined

“The beauty of hospitality is subtlety—a quiet kind of knowing what is needed in any given moment and expediting it with grace and skill. Mike Wolf has not only written a book about that, but has extended out beyond a moment and given us the incredible gift of transformation in community through his dedication to the simple but revolutionary idea that hospitality, when done with great heart, can change the world.” —Lisa Donovan, James Beard Award–winning author of Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger

"This isn’t the usual bar book. Rather, Barantined is a time capsule of the bar and restaurant industry during the pandemic. It captures the voices of the hospitality industry—their coping mechanisms, their frustrations, and most importantly, their voices and recipes. It’s a snapshot of survival." —Kara Newman, author of Nightcap and Cocktails with a Twist

"Barantined helped explain what I missed about a stylish bar while I was at home during quarantine . . . the music, the sense of camaraderie, the kernel of anticipation . . . and Barantined showed me that they missed me, too." —Margaret Littman, author of Moon Nashville to New Orleans Road Trip

Praise for Mike Wolf's Garden to Glass

“Garden to Glass is a back-to-the-land cocktail manifesto. Rather than chase down exotic liqueurs, Mike Wolf finds new flavors in roadside berries, garden-variety leaves and flowers, and even a few weeds. This is an inspired re-imagining of the twenty-first century cocktail, one that takes drinks back to their roots (literally) through the fruits and herbs that anyone can grow. Wolf's enthusiasm and improvisational spirit are refreshing—and after the first chapter, you'll never look at tomato leaves the same way again.” ―Amy Stewart, New York Times best-selling author of The Drunken Botanist

"Visually stunning . . . [Garden to Glass] forwards basic gardening etiquette in an insightful, inspiring, and educational way." ―Foreword Reviews

“There has always been one word to describe Mike Wolf and that is ‘thoughtful.’ Thoughtful not only in his family life but in the great detail in his work. Garden to Glass highlights the farmer in all of us and the ingredients it takes to put together ingenious cocktails.” ―Katie Coss, executive chef at Husk Nashville

"If the cocktail renaissance of the past twenty years or so has been about people rediscovering and refining cocktails, spirits, liqueurs, etc. from the past, and through their own perspective creating a new era of originality and creativity, it only makes sense for someone like Mike to show us what you can learn in your own backyard." ―Matt Tocco, beverage director at Strategic Hospitality

"I'm always drawn to people who go the extra mile with everything they do. Mike Wolf is one of those people. This book is a fantastic dive into the world of gardening and cocktails; two of my favorite pastimes. When I grab a seat at his bar, I'm instantly at ease knowing that I'm in great hands and also about to have a fantastic conversation! With this book, the reader is able to experience those great vibes on every page!” ―Andy Little, chef at Josephine

“Mike Wolf is among the best bartenders I've met. His drinks are smart, creative, and most importantly delicious. This book is a must-have for anyone trying to build upon their bartending game and utilize farmed and foraged ingredients to create more interesting drinks. Also, Brian Baxter's watercolors are sick.” ―Josh Habiger, chef/owner, Bastion

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