Edgar’s Bar Book Edgars

The bottles

Everything in a bottle
started as sugar.

Yeast makes the alcohol, the still concentrates it, oak shapes it. Tap any bottle to see how it is made.

How it is made

Six stages, in this order, every time.

Gin and mezcal look nothing alike and share almost none of their ingredients, but they pass through the same sequence. Only the choices inside each stage differ.

The categories

Thirteen bottles, grouped by what they are made from.

Reading a bottle

Four things the front label is actually telling you.