20 Essential Cocktail Books Every Bartender Should Know
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April 26, 2026
Before there were YouTube and Instagram, aspiring bartenders had only so many resources to study the trade, mainly books and mentorship. Even today, some classic (and modern) cocktail books are incredibly rich founts of knowledge that industry professionals can learn from. So we’ve decided to put together a sort of canon of cocktail books that bartenders and interested drinkers alike can use as their own personal curriculum. To do so, we consulted someone who might know more about the subject than anyone else: Greg Boehm, the founder and CEO of Cocktail Kingdom.
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