Behind the Home Bar The essential guide to making cocktails at home

by Devine, Cara

• ISBN13: 9781761450808
• ISBN10: 1761450808
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2025-07-01
• Publisher: Hardie Grant Books

Summary

A follow-up to Cara Devine's successful Strong, Sweet and Bitter, Behind the Home Bar is THE cocktail book you need to live your best drinking life at home. It covers everything you need to know to build up your home bar in a way that is exciting, innovative, won't break the bank, and – crucially – will be guaranteed to get the party started.

Containing over 25 'prep' recipes spanning syrups and cordials, oleos and sherbets, bitters and tinctures, and pickles and ferments, these essential additions to your home bar will elevate your basic cocktails (and make them even more delicious). Try them out in the 20 cocktails such as a Blended bebida with Pear and chamomile puree or a Sherbet gimlet with Chilli lime sherbet and Mango and black tea bitters.

With cocktails to suit every mood and occasion, set-up notes and prep recipes to add layer upon layer of flavour to your favourites with minimal fuss, drinking at home has never tasted better … nor sounded more appealing.

Author Biography

Cara Devine is the manager at Bomba Rooftop and host of the hugely popular web series Behind the Bar. She began working in hospitality at the age of 16, but started taking it seriously while working as a hostess in a cocktail bar in Vancouver after graduating university. After a move back home to Scotland and a job in a five-star hotel bar, she moved to Melbourne and has been soaking up knowledge from the city’s hospitality scene ever since, as well as sharing some of her own. Behind the Bar, launched in 2019, shows professional bartenders, as well as viewers at home, how to make Penicillins, Daiquiris and more, with other episodes featuring product comparisons or deep-dives on topics like Japanese whisky, vermouth and bartending tools.