The Drunken Botanist: The Plants that Create the World's Great Drinks

The Drunken Botanist explores the fascinating science and history behind the plants used to make alcoholic drinks. Author Amy Stewart takes readers from the rice used in sake and the agave behind tequila to the grains, fruits, herbs, flowers, and fungi that have shaped drinking traditions around the world. Blending botany, chemistry, history, and mixology, this updated 10th-anniversary edition also includes more than 50 cocktail recipes and guidance for growing your own cocktail garden.

Why You’ll Love This

• Explores the plants and natural ingredients behind spirits, wine, beer, and other alcoholic drinks

• Combines botany, biology, chemistry, cultural history, and mixology

• Features more than 50 cocktail recipes inspired by botanical ingredients

• Includes guidance for planting and growing a cocktail garden

• Filled with illustrations, unusual plant facts, and stories about the origins of familiar drinks

• A great read for plant enthusiasts, cocktail aficionados, gardeners, and curious readers

Discover the remarkable plants behind the drinks we know and explore the science, history, and ingenuity that bring them from the garden to the glass.