Shrubs: An Old-Fashioned Drink for Modern Times

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Imagine a fizzy, soda-like drink that is drier and so much more sophisticated than soda, what with the sugar and botanical ingredients. Shrubs! Amazing! Wonderful!--Amy Stewart, author of The Drunken Botanist

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A shrub is exactly what the people who invented the phrase "slake your thirst" had in mind. A shrub is full of character and variety. The ingredients--fruit, sugar, and vinegar--are as simple as can be. But the variations are seemingly unlimited. It has another superpower: A strong shrub game can help you make the most of bruised or aging summer fruit--The New York Times, in an article featuring Shrubs

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"A shrub is exactly what the people who invented the phrase 'slake your thirst' had in mind. A shrub is full of character and variety. The ingredients--fruit, sugar, and vinegar--are as simple as can be. But the variations are seemingly unlimited. It has another superpower: A strong shrub game can help you make the most of bruised or aging summer fruit."

-The New York Times, in an article featuring Shrubs

Michael Dietsch took the mixology community by storm when he brought back a popular drink from colonial times, the shrub. Not the green, leafy kind that grow in the ground, but a vintage drink mixer that can be spiked with alcohol or prepared as a soda. Drinkers, bartenders, and the media embraced the book. This new edition features a foreword by Paul Clarke, the Executive Editor of Imbibe magazine and author of The Cocktail Chronicles. Here is the definitive guide to making and using shrubs.

Contributor Bio:Dietsch, Michael
Michael Dietsch is a writer, editor, and accidental bartender. He is a contributor at Serious Eats, and writes about spirits and cocktails at the website A Dash of Bitters. The author of Shrubs and Whiskey, he lives in Reston, Virginia, with his family.

Contributor Bio:Clarke, Paul
Paul Clarke is the Executive Editor of Imbibe magazine.