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.
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.
I'm a good bartender, but a shit mixologist... 😢 I don't have a sense of smell, and so my sense of taste is very mild, and because of that I can't distinguish flavor profiles or know what goes well with what... 😢
I don't know how representative I am of your average viewer, but if the conversation is good, 30 minutes is no problem. I recently watched (and enjoyed) ua-cam.com/video/C6lgWf6qi78/v-deo.html and ua-cam.com/video/cqRKbbMk9Zw/v-deo.html, for example.
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.
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.
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.
If you do interviews, make it focused talking about recipes and making them in the studio. I am sure these people are interesting, but I've tuned out of too many interviews because they arent engaging.
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!
Here's my issue with this concept: where do Tiki Drinks fall in to this categorization? I'd think that if you include like the Pina Colada as the 7th, that really might cover everything.
Tiki drinks are almost all representations of a sour. No matter how many fruit juices are put into the drink the balance is almost always from a measure of sugar and sour (lemon) as for piña colada I’d put them in the flip category. Or at least that’s where the idea for them came. Most old school tiki drinks that don’t adhere to these templates are pretty bad
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
I think more of a book club conversation would be nice. I don’t think it would NEED to be the author (depending on how good of an interview they would give), perhaps another bartender. then make a couple drinks from it for you & guest as you discuss
oh, and I agree that the length of the video should be dictated by the conversation, with maybe an idea going in, but 10, even 20 is probably too short. maybe a live book club that everyone participates in? Skype in channel members/super chats as guests?
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.
Could author interviews be separate from the book reviews? I'd watch that. Might be hard to talk comprehensively about a book if its writer is sitting next to you. In fact, why make interviews dependent on a book? I like the idea of a bartender just having conversations with cocktail writers on a range of topics.
Yeah they will be separate usually interview the authors after we do the review here. Totally right that it would be strange to do a review with the author sitting right there 😂
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.
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.
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. ;-)
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.
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.
One early story about Lemon juice was that it was added to Rum on ships to help with scurvy. But as a general ingredient, maybe just because it brightens and freshens things up a bit. Distilled spirits in the early days were a little rough, so sugar and some fresh citrus fruit helped things along.
@@freepour That was my thought also after posting the question. No one wanted to just suck on lemon or limes and Rum being a sweet drink, they would put the juice in it to make the lime and lemon more palatable.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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 ☺️
Hi, this is the fruist time I ride a comment on UA-cam sol I would like to see interviews with the authors of the book, and more interviews withe more authors. Thanks 🙏
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
I certainly would like to see interviews with the authors of the books.
Agreed
Do the interviews as a podcast!
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.
Oh man! That’s a bummer! This virus is certainly ruining so much for us all! Hopefully we meet another time!
Short answer: Yes!
Long answer: Yes! And combine it with "The Sporting Life".
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.
Great book, this one and their first book. Those are my "textbooks" of bartending, must haves for any professionals or amateurs alike.
Oh...and a big 'yes' to interviews!
Just bought this book, came to UA-cam looking for interviews with the authors and found your review
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.
I'm a good bartender, but a shit mixologist... 😢 I don't have a sense of smell, and so my sense of taste is very mild, and because of that I can't distinguish flavor profiles or know what goes well with what... 😢
I don't know how representative I am of your average viewer, but if the conversation is good, 30 minutes is no problem. I recently watched (and enjoyed) ua-cam.com/video/C6lgWf6qi78/v-deo.html and ua-cam.com/video/cqRKbbMk9Zw/v-deo.html, for example.
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.
That sounds amazing. An extended interview/podcast by Leandro is all that we want
if its free of any cost$$$$ for you....people will watch those interviews. cost-benefit
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.
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.
If you do interviews, make it focused talking about recipes and making them in the studio. I am sure these people are interesting, but I've tuned out of too many interviews because they arent engaging.
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!
Six base cocktails....ifinity cocktails if you like...
If not a podcast for the interviews, think about Twitch or the like.
Yes take the authors in the video! Easeliyyyy for 30 mins
The Codex Cocktailus supports this video.
Wait what’s the tasty one that made you drink the entire thing?
Yes, I would like authors interviewed.
Yes to the interviews so very much yes!
And knowing is half the battle!📚📖
I like that interview idea!
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
I have c 80 cocktail books. It’s in the top 3.
it wil be intresting to have the autors in the show
Immediately bought the book
Yes, interviews can be good.
Definitely get the authors on here!
I’d definitely watch interviews.
What was the "so tasty" cocktail?!
Here's my issue with this concept: where do Tiki Drinks fall in to this categorization? I'd think that if you include like the Pina Colada as the 7th, that really might cover everything.
Tiki drinks are almost all representations of a sour. No matter how many fruit juices are put into the drink the balance is almost always from a measure of sugar and sour (lemon) as for piña colada I’d put them in the flip category. Or at least that’s where the idea for them came. Most old school tiki drinks that don’t adhere to these templates are pretty bad
Definitely would be into that.
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.
Yep and I got it and I got the Vegetarian Flavor Bible which is even better for cocktails
They do it in podcasts.
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.
It definitely will!
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.
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!
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!
I haven’t done agar clarifications but I’ve been meaning to do them for a good long while now
I think more of a book club conversation would be nice. I don’t think it would NEED to be the author (depending on how good of an interview they would give), perhaps another bartender. then make a couple drinks from it for you & guest as you discuss
oh, and I agree that the length of the video should be dictated by the conversation, with maybe an idea going in, but 10, even 20 is probably too short. maybe a live book club that everyone participates in? Skype in channel members/super chats as guests?
Yes, make it as long as the conversation requires. That’s why you have this spin-off channel 😀
Yes that IS why I have this spinoff channel 😂
Leandro? Did you try Truffles on the rocks' miso cocktail?
Not yet. Video is coming tho. Been a little busy and having to figure stuff out due to Coronavirus
Please please please come up with interviews! It's a brilliant idea! Would love to watch such content!
We will just a matter of figuring out how to do it while social distancing!
I'd looooove to see an interview with them. Even a digital one would be dope
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.
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.
Yeah I’m not allowed affiliate links for Canada :(
Could author interviews be separate from the book reviews? I'd watch that. Might be
hard to talk comprehensively about a book if its writer is sitting next to you. In fact, why make interviews dependent on a book? I like the idea of a bartender just having conversations with cocktail writers on a range of topics.
Yeah they will be separate usually interview the authors after we do the review here. Totally right that it would be strange to do a review with the author sitting right there 😂
Leeway granted!
yes to interviews :D
Me I'd love to see that
EXTENDED CHAT YES
Yes! But might be going into the territory of a podcast...
Yeah I’ll figure ways of making it interesting but also why not take the audio from it and turn it into a podcast?
Love the video
Great book
thank you
Yes!!!
Do it.
Yes!
Yes
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.
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.
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. ;-)
0:14 "Not a _long_ day, but--" checks video description... "a _ling_ day?"
Looking forward to your showing off the "Death and Co" and "Liquid intelligence" book
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.
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.
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)
Another question to address for a Freepour vid...Why do so many cocktails have lemon juice in them? What is the history and why lemon juice?
One early story about Lemon juice was that it was added to Rum on ships to help with scurvy. But as a general ingredient, maybe just because it brightens and freshens things up a bit. Distilled spirits in the early days were a little rough, so sugar and some fresh citrus fruit helped things along.
@@freepour That was my thought also after posting the question. No one wanted to just suck on lemon or limes and Rum being a sweet drink, they would put the juice in it to make the lime and lemon more palatable.
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.
Great idea... such interviews could inspire a lot of people of doing new things... Totally yes!!
Man i'd love to see interviews. That would be so inspiring to all of us! Cheers from Italy brother
Where did you get that shirt????
You can find it here:
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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
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
This book is great. Finally helped me make a martini that i could enjoy.
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
Yep great idea! I would love the interview format with the author. 15-20 minutes would be perfect!
I think Interviews are always great. I would also watch a 30 minutes interview, if it's a good conversation.
What's next months book?
🤔
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.
Hey Leandro! What is the first book or couple of books you would recommend to someone who isn't a bartender, but enjoys making them at home?
The very first book you should read is imbibe by David Wondrich for history and Cocktail Codex for easily and brilliantly explained technique
@@freepour Thanks!
Yes! Interviews and a cocktail would be great :)
Inviting the author would be an awesome idea!!!I for one would watch this and take notes myself
I would be super down with in depth conversations with other bartenders and professionals you find interesting in the business.
The people want interviews! Maybe interview and make cocktails at the same time.
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.
I just shot the first episode on creating your own cocktails today! With an example
Cocktail
@@freepour awesome! Can't wait to see it!!
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
I think having a guest author would be cool, but making cocktails together as well.
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.
I would love for you to leave a link with all your library of books of cocktails
Cheers
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 ☺️
Yeah! Castro is a master not sure mine will be as good but I can try for sure!
@@freepour man don't compare yourself, that's no good❤️ just do your own thing and be yourself we'll love it bro❤️
Hi, this is the fruist time I ride a comment on UA-cam sol I would like to see interviews with the authors of the book, and more interviews withe more authors. Thanks 🙏
and keep up the good work
we'll definitely try and set that up :)
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
Please do interviews! And time wise just go with the flow!!
Excellent review of an excellent book. I have been delving into it for some time now and have found it invaluable. Cheers!
It would be awesome to see the authors interviewed. Ideally shorter than 30 minutes, at least most of the time.
I would absolutely watch an author interview!