Left Coast Libations

All of us here at Left Coast Libations are busily getting ready for Tales of the Cocktail in New Orleans next week. We’ll of course be out and about all week taking in seminars and parties but, on Thursday July 22, from 12:00 PM to 12:30 PM, we’ll be down in the lobby of The Monteleone for a book signing. Books will be for sale in the adjacent TOTC bookstore. Quantities are limited so we recommend you buy early and often. We also hope to be offering samples of Marcos Tellos’s Whiskey Barrel Punch, one of his two Left Coast Libations.

During the week you can also follow our exploits via twitter:

Ted & Scott will be tweeting @leftcoastlib
Michael will be tweeting @manhattan_up

Michael will also be blogging during the week, as best he can. Check out his site:
Stirred, Not Shaken

See you all there!

At long last Left Coast Libations is about to become a reality! The book has been printed and is on its way. We’ll have copies with us at Tales of the Cocktail in New Orleans in July, and the book will be available in stores in September. You can also place an order for the book now via the Amazon link to the left!

Three states, one province, fifty bartenders, one-hundred original cocktail recipes.

We smoked air, we smoked ice, we made froth, we made foam, we made whey.

Left Coast Libations (LCL) is a new book featuring original profiles of fifty of the Left Coast’s most brilliant bartenders, from Los Angeles to Vancouver. Like any good cocktail book, LCL presents the reader with original cocktail recipes, described with enough clarity and detail to be re-created at home. But in addition to this, LCL aims to promote the efforts and talents of the bartenders who give their lives to the service of these drinks. LCL illuminates the notion that the creation of cocktails is a never ending creative process, and that any recipe book is merely the tip of the iceberg. It encourages the reader to seek out these bartenders who have taken the craft to another level, appreciate both their creativity and their dedication, and allow inspiration to wash over them. In doing so, LCL offers the reader not only a book of recipes, but a portal into a community.

LCL is a labor of love, created by the seat of our collective pants, developed through hard work and love, and with the aid of generous help from many good people along the way. Without much of a budget to speak of, without benefactors in lofty places, the book was put together step by step, piece by piece, with our own loving hands. So you see, Left Coast Libation is more than a cocktail book, it’s a grassroots movement, populated by bartenders and the nerds who love them. Join us, if you will.