Brown Booze - Take five key spirits, make ove... - Michael Butt

Discover how just a few simple ingredients can be combined with whiskey, bourbon, dark rum, tequila, or brandy to create 75 delicious drinks. By substituting just one or two ingredients, you will learn how to make a whole range of different drinks. Brown Booze is a unique cocktail recipe book, which explains how to maximise the number of cocktails you can make using the bottles of brown spirits in your drinks cabinet.

By substituting the apple brandy for bourbon you now have an Applejack Rabbit, a great cocktail with a completely different flavour to the St Lawrence. Take, for example, a simple St Lawrence cocktail, made from bourbon, maple syrup, and lemon juice. Or there's the classic Manhattan recipe, using bourbon, vermouth and bitters, that can become a completely new drink, the Harvard, by replacing the whiskey with cognac.

Using this formula and a series of helpful infographics, you'll see how a quick trip round the fruit and vegetables aisle of your local supermarket can transform the number of cocktails you can make, and at a really reasonable price, too. So if you're having a party, get the guests to bring you just five bottles of alcohol and by following the advice in Brown Booze you'll be able to make over 70 different drinks.