The Ultimate Shooter Drink Directory: Recipes for 1600 New and Classic Shooter & Shot Drinks

by Dennis Wildberger

Overview

NEW & REDISIGNED FOR 2019! Shooters are those wild little party drinks, mixed up in crazily delicious ways, and served with a dose of "I don't care". For the first time, "The Ultimate Shooter Drink Directory" compiles 1600 favorite and classic shooter recipes in one volume. Do you need "Brain Damage"? How about a "Brain Fart"? Maybe a "Brain Teaser" will do. You can find the recipes for all of these and hundreds more in "The Ultimate Shooter Drink Directory".

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781090586780
Publisher:	Dennis Wildberger
Publication date:	03/17/2019
Pages:	118
Sales rank:	1,042,942
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.25(d)

About the Author

Dennis started his career in the restaurant and nightclub industry when he was just 16. Learning the
business from the ground up, Dennis quickly realized what “customer service” meant.

At 18, he took a job as a bartender’s assistant at an established restaurant in Baltimore, MD. His first
assignment was working with John, a 68 year old man who had spent his entire life as a bartender. John
like Dennis, started bartending when he was in his teens, working at a speak-easy during prohibition.

John mentored Dennis, teaching him that working the bar was an art, and the only way to be successful was to know everything you could about your craft. Dennis learned all of the classic cocktail recipes, including some that hadn’t been called for in years. In no time, he began working shifts by himself. However, Dennis still had a lot to learn.

The clientele of the restaurant would frequently request a cocktail that Dennis had never heard of. The few cocktail reference books there behind the bar were of little help. Most had only a couple of hundred recipes and rarely had the one that he was looking for. So Dennis would just ask, “Do you know how to make it?” To his relief, most people did. In order to not be stumped again, he began to write the recipes down on 3x5 index cards, storing them in an alphabetical file box for quick reference. As time progressed, that file box grew rapidly.

Dennis eventually moved on, plying his trade at some of the most popular nightclubs in the country. Each
club he worked provided the opportunity to expand his cocktail knowledge. As time went by, his drink file
expanded to more than 10,000 recipes. Bartenders from restaurants and clubs all over, hearing about his
amazing collection, would call Dennis if they needed a recipe that they couldn’t find. This “fame” led
Dennis into bartender competitions. He won many, including Jose Cuervo's “Best Margarita Contest” and
Baltimore’s Best Bartender.

Dennis’s skill, experience, and knowledge of the bar industry naturally gave him the opportunity to
coach and mentor young bartenders, much like John did for him all those years ago.